Anyone collect DVD/Blu-ray players?

[Damnation]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I used to buy up DVD recorders until I concluded that I had enough to replace my small fleet of VCRs (which I still intend retain) for vacation TV recording duty.

I've had terrible luck with used recorders, DVDs of all types either don't play at all or skip badly. Most people seem use them as players as well, which wears down the laser diode, or at least greatly degrades its burning ability.

[Captainclock]

I have 2 Blu-ray Players, one's in my PS3 that I got as a freebie from a friend of mine, and the other is a standalone Blu-ray player, and I've got about 3 DVD Players one's a first gen Toshiba DVD Player from 1997, and then I have a Go-Video DVD Player with Progressive Scan from around 2003, and then I have a GPX (Grand Prix) DVD player from 2010 all of them have their original remotes except the Toshiba but I have a Toshiba "universal remote" that functions for DVD, TV, VCR, or a Cable Box that I can operate the DVD Player with.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Damnation

I've had terrible luck with used recorders, DVDs of all types either don't play at all or skip badly. Most people seem use them as players as well, which wears down the laser diode, or at least greatly degrades its burning ability.

I've only had one that flat-out seemed to not record (and another that would not even power on)....Some are a bit finicky about what they will record on, but once you find their 'favorite brand' it's smooth sailing (granted you have to remember to "finalize" discs in most machines to make them playable in other machines).

Never had a pre-recorded disc playback issue in any of my recorders, and I've played some REALLY roached discs (like a rental porno DVD that I found in the woods which was scratched to hell, and had a label so sun faded it was barely readable), and had good results....My Toshiba D-VR5 (my main go to recorder/player) has played and recorded literally hundreds of discs in the 6+ years I owned it and (knock on wood) has not had laser problems.....That machine is a real trooper! When I bought it at a Goodwill it was evident it had a hard past life...Big dents in the corners, scratches, the DVD drawer decorative cover flap was half way broken off (it has since completely come off), but despite that it worked and has held up admirably.

[centralradio]

I dont see any value on the current crop of DVD players and recorders at the moment .Maybe 25 years from now they will be.The value of the first players as some mentioned here will be worth having.

I got some here but I never paid out money for them.I rather stick with VHS for TV recordings since DVD recordings sometimes come out as coasters at times.I dont trust the DVD medium for keeping TV favorites and home movies for rest of my life.

I still got my first DVD player which is a Apex AD-600 from Circuit City here somewhere.

My Panasonic recorder works good as long I dont feed it cheap crap blanks.Works great on the DVDram disks. .The Liteon recorder is on the blink and I'm not even going to bother looking at it at the moment.Which was a lemon since day one.


Now since most movies and TV shows are available to watch or downloadable online at Amazon and other sources .I see in the near future the pre recorded DVD medium will be heading where the VHS pre recorded tape went.

Sorry to ramble on.