Is it just me or do DVDs not work like a quarter of the time? We had a new DVD player and it started skipping DVDs after a couple of months. The movies were jerky, choppy or just stopped altogether. The same thing has happened with the player we had before, but this one was even worse- and they were both expensive machines. This never happened with VHS! Forget the marginally better picture quality- I think this is one innovation the world could have done without. The DVD player salesman that we just talked to agreed that DVDs fail a horrible lot of the time and he doesn't know why the industry switched.
my first dvd player was kind of sucky. I went to best buy and the guy recommended using compressed air to clean it, but the little straw thing broke off inside so I just chucked the whole thing and got a sony on sale. I haven't had any problems with it.