Well my 7 year old Jensen DVD/CD player gave up the ghost last weekend. It's been gradually getting worse over the last several months. I've tried cleaning it with a cleaning disc and blowing the dust out with a can of keyboard cleaner but no dice.My internet searches have turned up about 6 different brands of possible replacement DVD/CD/AM/FM package unit replacements. Besides Jensen there's Concertone, IRV, Magnadyne, Furrion & Elite. Could be some others that I didn't find as well. Prices range from around $200 up to $700.Seems like there's plenty of complaints on all of these brands as well. So I'm wondering is there really difference between these brands? Or are they like VCR's in the 1980's which were all made by one company and just branded differently. Is there a good brand out there? Or should I just buy the cheapest one I can find and plan on replacing it every few years?

I use 120VAC for all of my home entertainment so I can use the $29.95 DVD/CD player from Walmart just fine... When camping off-grid I use a PSW Power Inverter to run it...Roy Ken

I've never heard of any of those brands, and the prices are outrageous.

In my opinion, buy individual components. Those quote - unquote combo units suck at best. I have best buy brands and for the most part are fine. My televisions and BluRay players are 12vdc and my new rig has a cd player that will be removed and a Ford car/truck 6 disc player installed.The BluRay players are for the TVs and play DVDs as well. I'd never buy another DVD player for use with a 1080 high resolution TV.

Where is the unit mounted? There are very good quality "in dash" units that can work in an RV. Alternatively, you can hide an inverter behind the TV and use a residential model.

D.E.Bishop wrote:In my opinion, buy individual components. Those quote - unquote combo units suck at best. I have best buy brands and for the most part are fine. My televisions and BluRay players are 12vdc and my new rig has a cd player that will be removed and a Ford car/truck 6 disc player installed.The BluRay players are for the TVs and play DVDs as well. I'd never buy another DVD player for use with a 1080 high resolution TV.Unfortunately I just don't have a lot of room. The unit is mounted in a cabinet that just barely fit's it's 10" X 6" size. And there isn't any other cabinet near that I could use.Starting to sound like this is just gonna be a throw away item.

LJAZ

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Mar 09, 2016

DVD player died.

Well my 7 year old Jensen DVD/CD player gave up the ghost last weekend. It's been gradually getting worse over the last several months. I've tried cleaning it with a cleaning disc and blowing the dust out with a can of keyboard cleaner but no dice.
My internet searches have turned up about 6 different brands of possible replacement DVD/CD/AM/FM package unit replacements. Besides Jensen there's Concertone, IRV, Magnadyne, Furrion & Elite. Could be some others that I didn't find as well. Prices range from around $200 up to $700.
Seems like there's plenty of complaints on all of these brands as well. So I'm wondering is there really difference between these brands? Or are they like VCR's in the 1980's which were all made by one company and just branded differently. Is there a good brand out there? Or should I just buy the cheapest one I can find and plan on replacing it every few years?

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