Problem playing subtitles on Cyberhome CH-DVD 300

[techunddvd]

I have a few Japanese anime DVDs where if the subtitles have a character speaking (usually yellow) and another set of subtitles translating onscreen text on the screen at the same time (usually white or pink in color and in a different font), the subtitles completely shut off. When pressing the button to switch or display subtitles on the screen, it still indicates that the subtitles are still turned on but no subtitles are showing.

This is not a fault of the disc as it works without issue in my Philips player.
Has anyone else had trouble playing DVDs with subtitles on a Cyberhome CH-DVD 300?

It does not happen with titles that only have one set of subtitles displaying onscreen at a time (like dialouge-only translation).

[MachineMan]

I've had problems just playing DVD's in a Cyberhome. Sometimes I have to shut mine on and off just to get it going. All normal symptoms of a $20 DVD player.

[FulciLives]

The Cyberhome CH-DVD 500 was their only truely "great" player. The 400 model was OK but that was that.

The 300 model is garbage.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[techunddvd]

Thanks for the information. I never heard of the model having subtitle problems before, just performance problems which I've never had.
I've been getting low-end players like this one recently because of the short-life expectancy of the lasers in players. This is what keeps me from buying higher-end players since I had one (a JVC, around $300) that had no problems with playing features like subtitles but then after about a year started having skipping problems with perfectly good discs and then completely died about a year or so afterward. Are there high-end players that one could recommend that last more than 5 years without having issues on playing perfectly good discs?