What was the first problem on your first dvd player?

[dvd-4-life]

My Toshiba player refused to play the running commentary track for the first Austin Powers movie.

[Harold Wazzu]

In my Apex, dvds kept freezing...

[AnonomusBob15]

"ERROR" - "Cannot Read Disc"

On any dvd in my collection.

[DataZak]

My first player was a Pioneer...don't remember the number...DV355 or 335 or something like that. After two years of not giving any problems, it started to freeze whenever it reached the layer change.

[IDrinkMolson]

My Sony Dream system "ate" all of my DVD/CD's. It holds 5 and wouldn't give any up.
I decided to take it apart to see if I could find a release button. Sliced my finger on the edge of the metal case. Put it back together and decided to take it back the next day (it was only about 4 days old).
Next morning got up, went up stairs to get the box to pack it up, started coming back down. And, slipped and tumbled down about 8 steps. I was basically OK, but broke about 3 spindles on the railing.
Damn thing tried to kill me. On the 2nd one now for about 5 years.

[compulsive dvd]

The first player I had was the creative dxr2. Though a dvd rom drive, it had a tv output and digital audio output card. It did not like to play dual layered discs at all. I had to exchange good will hunting and it took forever to read the first pressing of Seven Samurai. Also, once it got a dual layered disc going, it would often freeze at the layer change and I'd have to restart the computer.

[lordwow]

My DVD player (Toshiba) causes the image to go nuts anytime there's a lightning bolt or a photography flash in the movie. I still have no idea why.

[The Valeyard]

My first player was a Sony. About a month after buying it, audio started slipping out of sync while watching movies. Had to send it to them and get it fixed (for free thankfully).

[Eric F]

I ran out of movies to play on it.:(

[Canadian Bacon]

Scary Movie wouldn';t load on my old GE POS DVD players, had to hold won the play button the front of the player for it to play

[wnyx1440]

For about two weeks, the disk drawer on my Panasonic didn't want to shut all the way. Only went about half way, made a weird noise, and shut off. For some reason, it started to work again just fine...

[Leechboy]

My Proscan I bought in August 99 had sound problems right out of the box. The sound would skip for no reason whatsoever. Exchanged it for a Sony that lasted me from January 2000-September 2005.

[Heartagram]

same, and only, player i have had for 4 years now (Panasonic RV31) no problems to date.
Now after typing this i will have cursed myself.

[dom56]

For me it was Disney's Dinosaur. It keep skipping into new chapters for no reason on my first DVD player an RCA model. I found out that I wasn't the only person to experience this problem.

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Topic for the next question thread...

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[Disc-Flipper]

My Panasonic A120 (bought in March 1999) is still going strong! It even reads my burned discs.

My Lasonic LS-8900 multi-region is still working well, but skips and digitizes occassionally; I think when it gets too warm.

Now my third player Cyberhome CH-300 POS stopped loading discs entirely with a "No Play" message - one month after purchasing used. I told the seller about the problem, and he didn't care. It would cost about the same amount to to ship it for non-warranty repair than it cost to purchase, so I junked it.

[Joe Molotov]

It wasn't Progressive Scan. As far as I know, it's still works fine. I sold it to one of my roommates in college and upgraded, and I know he was still using it when we moved out.

[mike45]

My first player was a Panasonic A310. It still works but has problems reading some DVD's and occasionally freezes. It also gets too hot. It's now connected to an old TV in a spare room.

[rw2516]

My first player was a Sony DVP-S3000. Still works fine after 7+ years. Admittedly it doesn't get a lot of use any more. Only plays factory DVD and CD(no =+R, cdr, mpeg 3), no 5.1(pro-logic only), no component output(composite and S-video only). Have never had a problem with it.

[Brian Shannon]

Perhaps I am lucky but I have never had a problem with any of my players. My first was a Mitsubishi that I sold to upgrade to a Sony which I sold. The three I have now all work just fine!

[MovieExchange]

My first player was back in 99, it was a DVD / DIVX player that Circuit City was blowing out for $99. I had it for 2 months, and the open / close stopped working until I unplugged the player and pluged it back in. Then after a month of that, it stopped working altogether (no disc was inside at the time, thankfully).

Thankfully, I bought Circuit City's warranty. When they told me "you can take this thing outside, throw it on the ground, and if it's under our warranty we'll either fix it or replace it," I was sold. Took it back, they had it for about a week and called me and said "hey, this model is obsolete, they don't have the parts to fix it. We're refunding your $99 and the remainder of your warranty, come on in and get a new player."

Since that day, I've always recommended Circuit City when someone is making a purchase where a warranty is necessary.

[EddieN]

same, and only, player i have had for 4 years now (Panasonic RV31) no problems to date.
Now after typing this i will have cursed myself.

Same player I have. Aside from the fact that it won't play discs people have burned for me off of their Tivo's, not a single problem since I got it in 12/01.

[Spiky]

Nothing like what people have listed above. Eventually the laser transport wore out on mine, a Sony S360, I had to junk it. (fairly famous error, C:13) Then my Malata 996's power supply exploded.

[neiname]

My Toshiba 3109 wouldn't play the Matrix original dvd.

[neiname]

My Toshiba 3109 wouldn't play the Matrix original dvd.

[DJ_Longfellow]

I had an early Toshiba....maybe the same above....it was a 2-disc player. I believe it still works, my brother has it now. I don't think it would play DVD+/-R's though. Not ProgressiveScan either.

[woofman]

I had the 1997/first gen Sony single disk player, worked great for a couple of years then stopped reading the disks-dvd or cd. I bought a Sony 5 disk changer right after that and its been flawless for about 5 years. I just hope it holds out until the dust (and prices) settle in the format war.

[Rypro 525]

had a samsung dvd/vcr combo. certain discs wouldn't play, and many froze at some point of hte movie (also the on screen caused burn in on my old 60 inch mitsubishi.)

[Cygnet74]

1st player i bought in 1999 was a pioneer 414. had sync problems with a few discs.

[eedoon]

Well the first time I have a DVD related problemis on a DVD-ROM so its not really a player, but the first time I bought a DVD I thought I can play it just fine on a vanilla Windows Media Player. Silly me. :lol:

[mndtrp]

I had a Sony something-or-other, bought in 2000. It stopped reading discs, so I had the optical receiver portion replaced under warranty. Around 2003, it started freezing up, about every 7-8 movies. I had just started Netflix, and this really bothered me, so I picked up a Pioneer.

Pioneer has been a perfect player.

[Argentoholic]

My Apex player would randomly eject the disc in the middle of playing. It fixed itself automatically though.

[Drexl]

My first Samsung DVD-907 crapped out after a few days. I exchanged it for another of the same model, and that one worked for years. It probably still works, but I haven't used it in a while.

As for problems that the model itself had, it had issues with discs with seamless branching. At points where the branching was, it would repeat the previous several seconds. The Matrix also had some problems with pixelation, as the disc did for some other players at the time.

[Vipper II]

My first player, a Toshiba, had absolutely no problems. In fact, it is still working flawlessly, albeit not at my place. They really do make a good product.

[TheAllPurposeNothing]

Outside of the fact that it wouldn't play music on CDRs, I truly loved my first Toshiba. I still can't believe I paid nearly $300 for it.

If only my two-year-old son didn't decide to hang off of the tray, I'd probably still be using it. Learned quickly at that moment not to spend more than $100 on anything he could easily destroy.

[tdoane78]

My first and only issue with my first dvd-player was it being stolen in college in 1998 -- otherwise it work perfectly for the 4-months I had it :-)

-Tim

[Draven]

We got our first DVD player (Panasonic A110, I think is the model) with some of our wedding money...and it's still going strong. I honestly can't think of a single issue I've had with it.

Though I replaced it with a Panasonic RP-62, which has also been flawless. Mad props to Panasonic players.

[Cinemaddiction]

My first RCA player went up in smoke. Literally.

[DarthPrime]

My first player was an AIWA. Not sure the model number. It started to drop video during playback. The audio was fine, but the screen would go black for no reason then come back.

[darkside]

My first DVD player is still going strong. The Sony S300. The only issue it had was no support for DTS. Sony didn't add that until the next generation of their players.

[chess]

Panasonic A120, purchased in mid-1999. Still going strong in my bedroom, now that I have a recorder in the living room (also a Panny).

[Rockmjd23]

First player, Sony DVP-C660, bought in late 2000 and works fine.

[LiK]

the first DVD player we bought years ago was a panasonic and it still works perfectly. it's actually much more reliable than we thought but it's relegated to my sister who rarely uses it since it lacks a lot of features on today's players and it's pretty big

[Deftones]

Had the Panny A-320. The Matrix was the first flick it had problems with and it all went downhill from there. :(

[TheKobra]

My panasonic I purchased in 1999 is still going strong. Now I don't use it that much anymore but it must have over 1500+ hours of movies being played on it. What is the life of a DVD laser anyways?

[wd40cloud]

My Toshibia SD-2600 was the first player my family ever had. We got it Christmas 2001 and it worked flawlessly until July of last year. I was watching 'Goodfellas' and all of a sudden it just shut off on its own. I was able to open and it up and save the disk but the player went into the garbage.

My Zenith HTiB I purchased last summer works great the only problem I have ever had with it is while watching 'Clerks TAS' after the end of each chapter the player will go back to the first chapter of the particular episode.