Coby DVD-224 DVD Player

We've had our Coby (and has anyone else noticed it's in a font reeeeally similar to Sony?) DVD player for almost two years now and it's been a pleasant surprise.

Okay, in October 2005 we sat through a time-share presentation because they offered us a free DVD player. It was a Coby. Initially we put it in our son's bedroom and kept using the Koss DVD player we'd bought for $44. It became more and more evident that our free Coby worked better than the player we'd bought -- it almost never skipped, froze or garbled, and the Koss unit would do it several times on every single DVD it played.

So...the Coby became our main DVD player. I'll admit that we don't watch many DVD's -- I know people who have vast libraries of movies and watch them every single night. That's not us. We rent from Blockbuster every other month or so, and the kids watch some of their inane-yet-colorful programs on DVD.

Essentially, the Coby does everything we need it to do and doesn't have any problems. We didn't pay a penny for it -- though this past Christmas the local Mega-Mart had two pallets of them on sale for $9.95 each. If it were to melt into a puddle of plastic today, we'd have gotten our use out of it, and still be satisfied.