Reply #29: wanna bet?

[burythehatchet]

If you purchased a new 5.1 stereo prepackaged by Sony or JVC or any other mass producer, it is very likely that the equipment will malfunction in some critical way within a year.

As an example, in 1984 I purchased my first VCR (google it if you don't know what a VCR is). It was an NEC. It weighed about 25 lbs and was quite large. I still have this piece of electronic eq. It still works just like the day I took it out of the box. Never needed any repair whatsoever. Of course it was new technology at the time and it was expensive; my VCR was $440.

Compare that with the THREE dvd players that I have discarded because they were inoperable, and repairing them costs more than a new one. In total I've probably spent 600 on dvd players and still don't have a solid one. Meanwhile, all the materials and production resources that went into making the cheap stuff is not manifest in the junkyard. This is just wrong.