Are all DVD players junk??? Grrr.

[Storm861triple]

I bought a Denon DVM 2815 just under a year ago. A cell phone works better and lasts longer than this this has/will.

I am just about 100% unhappy w/this player, and here is a bullet list of why:
*Carousel and eject are excessivly noisy and SLOW!
*You can't enter a comand ahead of time. If you place a disk in the tray, and hit "close", you have to sit there and wait for it to close, load, and get ready to play before you can hit "play". If you hit "play" before it's ready, you might as well have not hit it at all. Same goes for disk skip then play and pretty much any other command. One at a time please. Lame.
*If you put 5 CD's in the machine, and hit "play" (when it's ready), it will only play one disk then stop. If you're having a party and want more music, you need to hit "disk skip", wait, wait, wait, then when it's all set and ready, you can hit "play", and it will play just one more disk.
*If you select "Random play" either for one disk or all disks, it DOESN'T ELIMINATE A "PLAYED" TRACK!! It will play the same track multiple times...and NEVER play some other tracks! Junk!
*The only way to get continuous music that appears "random" for dinner/party etc, is to program your own play list, which takes a long time. The On Screen Display is not great, so you neet to hadn write a play list first, and cross each one off as you enter it into the menu, so you don't miss a track or double up.
*It skips way, WAY too easily. Brand new, blemish free disks even. It just can't deal w/some disks. The primary function of its existance...it can barely manage.
*It's not even a year old yet, and it is already having a very hard time playing both CD's and DVD's (that are in fine conditon). Some times it won't play at all. Once (and IF) you get a CD or DVD to "load", you're good to go (except for the skipping issue), but sometimes it just plaine won't load a disk. Sometimes you can play a disk all the way through, issue free, then it stops (like I said above) so you go hit "play to hear it again....and it won't do it. Or mostly you just turn it on, throw a disk in wait, wait, wait, and it just won't ever play. Very annoying when you have a date over and can't get the move started. Or mood music for dinner. Unacceptable.

Any advice for why it won't load/play? Or advice about the play strataegy/random issue? Or the skipping issue? I'm about ready to smash it to smitherines. At least I'd get SOME satisfaction from my purchase if I do that...

[RGA]

Personally I would dump the thing. Carousels are notoriously poor quality even from better companies like Denon.

I would buy an inexpensive reasonably good DVD player to be used strictly as a dvd player. Then I would buy this for all your party and feature needs -- you might be impressed that it actually sounds pretty good -- is fairly quiet and you can buy a second one to daisy chain. I have been pleased with it. It will take a lot of time to set-up and load but you can connect your home keyboard up to enter all the information and load by genre. You need to keep a spreadsheet to know where the discs are located but once all this is done your collection is at a fingertip and that is pretty darn cool. http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/ser...00n32110n46844

[twochannelsonly]

Personally I would dump the thing. Carousels are notoriously poor quality even from better companies like Denon

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You are so very right, and yes I havent heard a great sounding DVD player yet.

[Florian]

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You are so very right, and yes I havent heard a great sounding DVD player yet.

Well a good one is the new Onkyo DVPS1000 and the Marant DV9500.

-Florian

[StanleyMuso]

Well a good one is the new Onkyo DVPS1000 and the Marant DV9500.

-Florian

I've had bad luck with laser powered products in the past, both DVD and CD (including Denon and Marantz) and have little faith in their quality, no matter the price or their performance when reviewed.

[N. Abstentia]

I've had lots of bad luck with Denon equipment, especially players. Come to think of it, every single Denon I've ever had/seen has had problems..except my old Denon turntable