Okay, something scary is happening in my home.
A few months ago, I took advantage of Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day, and purchased
Angel: The Complete Series at 60% off SRP.
This week, I decided to finally watch this original, R1 set.
Last night, in the middle of Season One, Disc 3... my Pioneer DVR-514H died. It just broke down. The player suddenly ejected the disc (in the middle of an episode), and now cannot read any discs I try to load into it - all register as "Unreadable." This machine is only one year old! Just a week past its warranty - I looked for the receipt in hopes of getting it fixed under warranty.
Anyway, I resumed watching the DVD set in our guest room, on a 5 year old Next Base player. Just now, while playing Season One, Disc 4... the player again stopped in the middle of an episode, and for about 15 minutes, the machine could not eject the disc. It would just reload the disc without ejecting the tray, and register the disc as "Unreadable." AGAIN. I finally got to eject the disc, and now the Next Base refuses to play any DVDs.
I'm now scared to resume watching this DVD in my bedroom. What if this evil boxed set kills another DVD player in my house??? I already lost use of one DVR... I can't risk losing my old Pioneer DVR-510H to this murderous boxed set! Gitna pa naman ng Wimbledon...
It's a serial killer set that stalks DVD players! I think I got the
Angelus boxed set instead of the
Angel boxed set.
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Seriously though - weird. Two players busted in two days! Could the set have been on sale due to a defect that's harmful to players?