Sony DVP-S530D DVD Player
Dying after 3.5 years
Back in the summer of 1999, the Sony S530D managed to wiggle it's way into my home (without extended warranty).  The lip sync problems began, I went to the forums, and was told that Sony had acknowledged the problem and that a firmware upgrade would fix it.  Three months later I couldn't ignore the lip sync problem any longer and took it back to the fine people at Circuit City who had it fixed for me 2 weeks later.   It has worked flawlessly ever since...until a few months ago.  Some rented DVDs no longer played right.  My wife and I would have to constantly rewind and fast forward through to try to finish the movie.  The discs would be cleaned, but nothing.  The player would be cleaned, performance seemed to improve, but nothing.  New discs still worked fine.  Then it happened.  A few weeks ago, it rejected my son's brand new Winnie the Pooh DVD which worked in my DVD-Rom and my in-law's Sony player and \\"CYBER HOME!!!\\" player.  Last night a movie was playing fine and then all of a sudden C 13 shows up.  Multiple reinserting finally got it to work.  This had happened a couple of times before.  Cleaning the lens never worked.   So I'm buying the Sony NS 315 from BB.  There is a $... rebate on the BB web site. $... for hopefully another 3 years isn't bad.