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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Only answer is that SONY makes POS DVD players.
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Ding ding ding. We have a winner.
Remember that Sony is one of the largest distributors of electronics in the world. They make good stuff and they make cheap stuff. 3-5 years is AVERAGE lifespan of an inexpensive player. Believe it or not, average use is under 8 hours/week. You people with kids are on borrowed time. Also remember that Sony did a cost/benefit analysis that determined that 9 screws holding down the circuit board rather than 12 screws was going to save them millions of dollars. Never mind that it was going to increase the numbers of defects. Also remember that your DVD player travelled a long long way - probably from Malaysia or China and you'll never know how the player was treated. Hell, I've seen delivery guys drop them. Many many many times. Salespeople drop them. Sometimes on purpose. Were you nice to the salesman?
You just never know. Environmental factors also figure in - number of pets, amount of dust, heat, humidity, etc. Remember that the laser reading your disc is less than the width of a human hair. And now the lenses are predominantly plastic. The bearings are plastic. The gears are plastic.
You pay your money, you takes your chances. Shit happens.
