Let me know how it works out.
I think my $50 unit IS a Sony, the crappy 5 disk changer one was a Samsung.
The Samsung not only liked to skip on even NEW disks, but it was sooooooo slow. It wanted to THINK about everything. I don’t want my DVD player to think about anything, I want it to apply lazer to disk!
Oh man. I once owned a samsung 5 disc DVD player. Worst piece of junk I ever owned.
That wasnt the first 5 disc DVD player that I owned. The first one (a brand name I cant remember) broke down on me after only a couple of months use. I took it to the store for repairs, but because they couldnt contact their repair center, they gave me the option of choosing a brand new DVD player off of their shelves. I chose the samsung. I took it home and right out of the box, brand spanking new....it wouldnt work!!!
"This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc". Of course, no matter what disc out of my entire DVD library I put in, I STILL got the same message. (YES, I checked the region codes of the DVDs to make sure they matched with the player)
I tried putting only one disc in the carousel and got nothing but the "disc cannot be played" message. I put in three dvds, I got the same message, I pressed "disc skip" a couple times on the remote, hallelujah...it finally played a movie!
My joy was short lived. For, after that movie was over, I pressed the disc skip button on the remote again in order to see the next movie. Again I got the "disc cannot be played" message. Thinking that maybe the DVD player was trying to "read" an empty spot in the carousel, I filled up the carousel with 5 discs in the hopes that at least one would play, but no go. This time around, it wouldnt play ANY of the discs on the carousel, including the one it had previously played for me! ("This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc", "This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc", "This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc").
I took the samsung back to the store the next day and insisted on a replacement. But they refused and would send it to their repair center (they were finally able to contact the repair center), and told me I had to wait 4-6 weeks to get it back. So I waited, got it back....and the damn thing worked for me for only about a few months before breaking down again. In frustration, I decided against taking it in for repairs again. Instead I went to get myself a generic no known brand name single disc DVD player/vhs player combo (cost: 60 bucks) and that lasted me about a year and a half before it broke down. At which point I bought another to replace that, same price, but different unknown brand name...that lasted for a couple of years. Now I'm on my third single DVD disc/vhs combo player. I'm happy to have a cheap costing DVD player that works for at least a year for me. No more samsungs for me.