DOA, then DAA (dead after arrival)

I bought this same unit from the local Kohls department store. And just as pretty much every other review here states, it comes in the box already DOA. The first one wouldn't recognize ANY didks I put in it. One of them I had *just played* on another machine less than half an hour earlier with no problem whatsoever. It would not mount the disk, and pressing "play" would try to run the disk, then within a few seconds would stop.

My wife brought it back to the store and exchanged it for another unit, which played one disk for 5 minutes, then the playback came to a sudden stop, frozen on one frame of the video, never to run ever again.

I'm amazed this company hasn't been run out of business yet. Then again, perhaps they *have*, and they're trying to defraud customers & stores into buying up the remainder of their stock to pay off the store chargebacks and other fines likely being charged on this shoddy product.

NOTE: Kohls sells this under a "Digital Labs" product name. Be wary that this manufacturer has probably produced it under a variety of "brands", although they have used the very same product numbers for the item regardless of brand name (which is how I found this listing).