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[ArcadeStickMonk]

So we got my dad a DVD player, in order to briefly entertain the idea that he could get with the mid-nineties. I pushed for a 5 disc model, thinking that if anything he would use it to watch whole seasons of Band of Brothers and M*A*S*H.

Then I start loading up The Simpsons Season Four, a gift to me, and the internal motor starts making evil noises and I can tell that a disc has slipped off the carousel. I unhook it, get the screws out, and bend the hell out of the metal tabs refusing to let go in the front, and get my destroyed disc two out. To add injury to insult, Toshiba didn't bother rolling the metal edges on the back of the top panel, so I suffered damage to a key gaming finger.

Obviously both the player and the DVD set get exchanged tommorow. So my question to anyone still reading is:
Are there sufficient bad experiences and collective bile to write off disc changing carousels all together?

I'm leaning towards a simple single-disc player now, if only that it won't take a minute to actually open the damn tray. It'd be simpler for the old man to use too, if ever. I don't want phone calls about how to get discs out, or another carousel player destroying more DVDs that my folks wouldn't even know where to buy if they wanted to.

Give me horror stories or positive recomendations. You don't even have to base them on fact, I've got a fairly irrational dislike of this implementation already; VCR combos too.

 

[Docpan]

I laughed...

 

[PotatoeMasher]

Come to think of it, every changer i've had has failed within a year or so... what a horrible waste of money...


the fewer moving parts the better... DOWN WITH DISC CHANGERS

 

[ManaByte]

I want an Onkyo six-disc changer to weld the LOTR-EE DVDs into it. However I can't find one that isn't bundled with speakers. I just want the damned player!

 

[WedgeX]

My 5-disc Sony DVD player has been working fine for the past four years. Only problem it has is that on the machine itself the button to move the discs in order backwards does not work, but the forward one does. Only thing thats been a problem.

 

[belgurdo]

I laughed...

I loled

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

the fewer moving parts the better...

A good principle in general.

I've had very little experience with such carousel disc setups. I did one time have discs slip out of place, but that was because I was moving things around and sillily thought it would be made in such a way that they'd be kept in place. Luckily no harm was done; I just had to cycle around until I reached the disc between two slots.

Especially considering the way you describe your folks, I'd say it's best to Keep It Simple, Stupid. I don't think disc changes are THAT much of a pain that we need to go entire television seasons between them. :lol