Samsung DVD-S221 DVD Player
My DVD crapped out on me afte 2 1/2 years
I purchsed this product about 2 1/2 years ago. We barely used it, and when I say barely, I mean it maybe once or twice a month. However, recently, the DVD has had more use with people comming over etc. While the DVD was working, I was satisfied with it, since I'm not a DVD conosour, I didn't notice all these technical defencies others have listed.  <br /> <br />Yet, I have a gripe with any product I spend a decent amount of money on that stops working in a short period of time. Evidnetly the driver-read header for the DVD is the problem, since it still runs SVCDs. I looked the problem up in sites like \\"Video-Help\\" and it seems others who have purchased this product have had the same problem (either the VCD or DVD read-head crapping out after 1 - 2 years).  <br /> <br />I imagine if we had used this product more frequently (that is to say maybe once a week instead once a month), we would have had the product break earlier. Either way, I can't recommend this item to anyone who wants a reaosnably long-term investement item.