Sony DVP-S530D DVD Player
I wouldn't wish this player on the devil himself
I am now on my second Sony S530 DVD player within one year.  The first functioned fine (with the exception of the occasional lip sync problem) for the first 9 months.  Then suddenly, it wouldn't power on at all!  I sent it  in to be fixed, and the tech told me that the integrated circuit board on  this model heats up too fast, thus causing the unit to shut down.  My local  retailer then swapped out a new unit for me, which worked fine for just  under 90 days.  Then wouldn't you know it, the same problem happened with  the replacement unit as well!  Normally the same problem hapenning to the  same person twice points to customer abuse, but I pamper all of my  equipment and treat it better then anyone I know.  Also, I highly doubt  that the problems were due to surge problems, as my equipment is plugged  into the new reference Monster Power HTS5000.  I just can't believe how  horrible this machine is.  I have an ES reciever, a Wega tv, a Sony  portable &amp; component minidisc player, and a Sony CD player as well.   All have worked beautifully and have never had a single problem.  I  expected a lot more from their dvd players and got lemons instead.  If my  second player is replaced as well, I'm not even going to bother opening it  up at all.  I'm going to sell it new and put my money towards a Toshiba  instead.