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  • Coby recalls boomboxes due to potential fire hazard, crappiness

    04/24/2007 10:55:31 PM PDT · by jdm · 4 replies · 406+ views
    Engadget ^ | April 25, 2007 | Nilay Patel
    Coby's quest to become more than the de facto house brand of street vendors and pharmacies worldwide by shipping semi-respectable PMPs and DAPs has always been held back by the company's insistence on making chinzty little boomboxes and CD players, and now it looks like it's paying the price: Coby is being forced to recall nearly 15,000 MP-CD475 boomboxes because they sound like tin cans pose a fire hazard. You may remember the MP-CD475 as the legendary unit that redefined the dual-voltage AM/FM/CD/MP3/USB boombox market with its iconic design featuring the word DIGITAL on the top in huge letters. If...