Eating-up cheap dvd players

Can you replace the kids?

If not, the only thing I can suggest is that Consumer Reports lists Panasonic as the most reliable maker of DVD players. That doesn't mean they can withstand the rigors of your little darlings, but it's worth a shot.

Other than that, buy the cheapest you can find, because you'll be replacing them frequently.

Just keep buying cheap and used....thats what I would do.

Keep using the el cheapo's. That way you won't be so bummed when they destroy the expensive ones. I was a television technician in the Air Force for 17 years so my family always wants to ask me "what's the best TV?" My answer is always, "what's on sale?" The mass produced stuff isn't designed or built to last forever.

Philips DVP642 ... They are about $55 but they play ANYTHING and well; kids will be kids. I put my 4 year old's Apex up on a shelf about 5 feet off the ground thinking I was safe. She figured out how to push her plastic desk over to the shelf and place a chair on it to get at the player. I have tried reasoning ... spankings ... and now the "great pink shelf debockle".

I did manage to teach her to stay away from my system.

At least as far as I know ...


It's God's way of paying me back for taking my Dad's TV apart when I was 7.

elivick,i have 5 kids running in the house,and we have had the same problem,my wife went to walmart and bought a magnavozdvd player small grey player not any functions but play open and off ,remote has the rest,well the first one was so good we bought another to go in babys room,they set me back 30 .00 or so and they hold up..they even play good ,i was having trouble on day with my dvd and hooked the maggi in system and was suprised how good it sounded in redbook so get it and hook it up and forget it,you can always hook a good one up and a cheap one in same system and dare them to touch the good one,here is the link to the player http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3639074 good luck