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It won't be a PIONEER though. As the other reviewer said, it worked great until now, but I think it's fair to expect more than a year out of a piece of electronic equipment. We've owned this DVD player less than a year and it has stopped working. Won't recognize it's connected to the television, and doesn't stay powered on for more than a minute (it slowly loses juice and then fades to off). Not sure what it will cost to repair, but we're thinking that at a retail price of a little over $100, we should probably just buy a new one.
I have certainly not been disappointed in the easy set up, simple to use controls and superb performance. After reading many reviews for various DVD players, I selected this Pioneer. The picture quality through HDMI cable to my new LG HDTV is amazing -- very close to blue-ray.
Fairness demands pointing out the possibility that this unit was an outlier. After a futile attempt to clean the sensor head I have given up and intend to replace it. I tested with several disks, commercial and home-burned, to no avail. The player was used for about 5 hrs/week during its brief operational lifetime.The player gets high marks for function, the two star rating is due to short lifetime. I have owned a DV-410V player for about 15 mos and was quite pleased with its operation until its recent demise. It cannot load DVDs, attempts to do so for about 1 min and then reports "no disc". Best guess is that the disk drive failed, no reason to suspect electronics failure; function was temporarily restored after one cleaning.
Solved many problems with an older unit. A nice piece of equipment, reasonably priced and a great value. Good going Pioneer.
I saved so much money and now have a picture so crisp my Blu-Ray owning friends are kicking themselves. This DVD player is so close to Blu-Ray it's not funny. Ha--I win.
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