A lot of stuff today is like whiskey, made to sell, not use.
No offense Smokie, but I guess that both of those DVD players together cost les
than a C-NOTE, am I right?.
Things are made to be cheap and disposible, because thats what makes sense,
besides, with advancing tech somethings obsolete in a few years anyhow.
I have a high fidelity DVD player thats about eight years old, but it cost 700 bucks on sale. A 35 dollar DVD player? Good luck.
The tolerances on a modern DVD player are so tight, the pits on a DVD so small
that you just touch the wrong thing and its outta whack.
I know you were carefull but get a nanometer off...
I have had this "talk" with people thousands of times.
If you fix something chances are it will break again in a few months to a year,
I have seen this happen.
And repair is costly, labors expensive these days, and high tech gear taxes
a "traditional" TV service shop.
A lot cheaper to turn em out like sausages and toss em when they croak,
kep a few in the closet , new and boxed up, ready to go.