http://www.howtocleanthings.com/blog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:54:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.howtocleanthings.com/blog/how-to-clean-a-dvd-player http://www.howtocleanthings.com/blog/how-to-clean-a-dvd-player#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:24 +0000 admin http://www.howtocleanthings.com/blog/how-to-clean-a-dvd-player
The Japanese have been kicking our butts technologically for a few decades now. In 1982, the Sony corporation released the very first CD player: the CDP-101. It sold for about $900. Then, 14 years later, the Sony corporation would come out with a new product: the DVD player. The Sony DVP-S7000 was built in Terre-Haute, Indiana, and sold for $970. Well, now it’s 2010, and I am using a DVD player I bought five years ago for $90 at Target. And it is a Sony. I keep it real. And to this day I have never once considered cleaning it. It has performed well. The reason I bought it was so I could watch movies and also listen to music. You see the DVD player played CDs better than the CD player would. If a scratched CD wouldn’t play on the CD player, there was a good chance it would play on the DVD player. Now, in the digital age, this sort of information is rather useless. No one listens to CDs anymore. And, in the not too distant future, no one will watch DVDs either. But until then at least we will be able to clean the DVD players.

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