Factory-Reconditioned Yamaha DVDS1500 Progressive DVD-Audio/SACD DVD Player
Worst device I have ever owned
I purchased one of these in December/04. I noted that it took forever after inserting a disk for the disk menu to show onscreen. This was with all types of disks. After pushing the eject disk prepare to wait up to 20 seconds for the disk to eject. After two weeks the unit stopped working completely. I exchanged it for a new one and now the welcome screen would continously roll for 10 seconds before it settled down. Once again extremely slow with disk inserts, reads and ejects. Sometimes the unit wold just hang and I would have to unplug it and plug it back in to get it too work again. Well yesterday when I went to play a disk there was green banding and pixelation whenever I tried to play any disk. This occured 2 weeks after the one year warranty has ended. This should not happen on a device that costs over $300. I went to Circuit City and purchased a $59 Panasonic DVD-S29. It is fast, the picture is just as good if not better and the sound is great. Maybe I was just unlucky but to get two bad units says something about the Yamaha quality control