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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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So I watch a lot of movies, A LOT. If I'm home the DVD player is running. Because of this my DVD players tend to crap out after about a year. My 20$ Insignia DVD player bit the dust a few weeks ago, so yesterday I went to Best Buy and bought one of these.
I opted for a higher priced model, like 40$ instead of the usual 20$ in the hopes that it lasts longer.
it works great, but there's one thing wrong with it.
The remote doesn't have an eject button on it! What the fuck is that all about? 
I have no problem getting up off my ass and hitting the eject button, in fact it's probably a good thing, but what kind of weird design is that? Let's see power? check. play? check. title and menu? check. directional? check. completely useless 0 - 9 keys? check. eject button? NO GET OFF THE YOU COUCH FAT AMERICAN PIG!!! 
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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...A question.
Did you ever really plan on ejecting a DVD, then staying on the couch?
Most people eject them to take them out of the player, which requires getting up and going right up to the thing anyways.
I'd consider having an eject button on the remote a waste of space myself.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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It should still have one! I have to lean like a whole extra inch to reach the eject button, ejecting with the remote and reaching for the tray is more efficient, I've got cartoons to watch damn it!
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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As someone who had a DVD remote with an eject button, I can tell you that the first time you accidently hit it instead of pause, you stop loving it.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
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There was one time when the disc tray on my player suddenly came out while I was watching Fantastic Four for the first time. I probably hit the eject button on the remote by accident, but I prefer to think that my DVD player spat out the disc because it couldn't stomach the movie.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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| Tyop wrote: |
| There was one time when the disc tray on my player suddenly came out while I was watching Fantastic Four for the first time. I probably hit the eject button on the remote by accident, but I prefer to think that my DVD player spat out the disc because it couldn't stomach the movie. |
Ba ZING! 
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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Just buy a new remote with the eject button set one of your old ones to send a signal that your DVD player will reconize
I'm assuming you still have the code list
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Tyop wrote: |
| There was one time when the disc tray on my player suddenly came out while I was watching Fantastic Four for the first time. I probably hit the eject button on the remote by accident, but I prefer to think that my DVD player spat out the disc because it couldn't stomach the movie. |
The smartest DVD player on the planet.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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| hacker wrote: |
Just buy a new remote with the eject button set one of your old ones to send a signal that your DVD player will reconize
I'm assuming you still have the code list |
Not sure if my Game Genie manual has any Sony DVD player codes, I'm missing the pages for R through V. 
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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look it up online
Google has a purpose
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Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
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Its funny that all these new DVD players are made so cheap they break within 6 months to a year
I bought an Apex DVD player in 2002 for my brother for about 60 bucks and it managed to endure a ton of viewings and abuse over the years. I ended up giving it to my friend's mom who uses it in her bedroom.
I say this because Apex was supposidly the cheapest and crappiest brand at the time yet it stil endured.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16135
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
...A question.
Did you ever really plan on ejecting a DVD, then staying on the couch?
Most people eject them to take them out of the player, which requires getting up and going right up to the thing anyways.
I'd consider having an eject button on the remote a waste of space myself. |
exactly my thoughts
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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I have a Philips DVD player, I bought from hellmart because it had 1080i upscaling and HDMI. It ran me about $45. I've had it for about 9 months, and it has worked great so far. I also discovered that it can play AVI files, which is awesome. I can burn 5 (700MB) movies on a single disc and watch them.
It's a great little player. I don't know if it will pass the one year mark, but it's getting close. My last DVD player was one of those little grey APEX/Insignia ones that only survived about 5 months of use.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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I have a little dinky DVD player that was given to me as a gift for the Christmas of 2007, surprisingly it's been holding up well. Although once in a while it might start having a hard time reading one of my discs.
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