What is the life expectancy of a stand-alone DVD player?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I bought a Sony DVP-S560Dhttps://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=s560d&Submit=Search&Search=Search&dvdporta...y=Name&hits=50 many years ago, shortly after it came out, and paid right about $300 USD for it. I've heard and read a lot of bad things about this model, and eventually learned that it had the exact same laser assembly that the ill-fated earlier model PlayStation2 units had.
It performed admirably for a long, long time before it started acting up. It would give me the dreaded "13:00" error on just about any kind of disc, but totally randomly. CDs, VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs, burned or pressed, it didn't matter. Sometimes all I had to do was eject and re-insert to get a disc to play......
About a month ago, it started wildly skipping around DVDs and sometimes freezing. Forget about discs like Scene-It! and the Trivial Pursuet interactive DVD! I took it apart and cleaned it out (it was FILTHY!) and realigned some things that had obviously been jarred loose after several moves.
Fired it up and it worked like a champ! For about a month....
Yesterday I learned that there is a class-action law suit against Sony for this particular model!
I also learned yesterday that Sony players have "Service Menus" that can be access via remote control button presses.
And that's how I learned that my good old S560D had 955 hours of DVD playback on the laser unit and about 130 hours of CD playback.
"not too bad" I though -- that's about 637 movies if you figure on an average of 90 minutes per flick.
Yesterday I replaced it with the new Sony DVP-NS55P https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=6900&Search=Search&#comments

Then I got to monkeying around with my Sony DVP-NS725P https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=NS725P&Submit=Search&Search=Search&dvdport...y=Name&hits=50
This model hasn't exactly received rave reviews and certainly has it's fair share of gripes, but it has performed quite well for me.
I can't say that I am at all impressed with it's Progressive Scan output. Some DVDs, particularly TV show sets, get a lot of lines and "jaggies".
This puppy has just over 1000 hours of DVD playback on the laser unit and about 30 hours of CD playback.
So far it hasn't shown any of the problems that people have bitched about -- locking up, over heating, "13:00" errors.

My Sony DVP-NS325 https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=NS325&Submit=Search&Search=Search&dvdporta...y=Name&hits=50 has just under 60 hours of DVD playback and has apparently never seen a CD.
Again, this one hasn't exactly received stellar reviews, but since it's in the bedroom, it doesn't get much use -- I'm thinking we'll probably have it for a very long time before it needs replacing.

How many hours of playback should be expected from a DVD player? What is the average life span of a good DVD player? An excellent DVD player?
Any thoughts?

TIA!!

(yes, I do like Sony products BTW) :P

[samijubal]

My first and second generation Panasonic players from '98 and '99 still work. They were replaced a couple of years ago because I wanted more features, but they still work. I've been using a JVC for over 2 years of daily use, probably 4-5 hours a day on average, it still works fine.

[Capmaster]

We've generally gotten 2-3 years life from our DVD players. That's with daily use

[overloaded_ide]

My Norcent DP 300 is in a bad invirorment and running fine still after about 3-4years? I bought it sometime near when I joined here, what's that date to the left? I can't see it while posting.

We are in a dusty area and we use wood burner for winter heat, The computers are cleaned evey few months, sometimes the CPU heat sinks are really nasty with dust and the fans too. I mention that because the DVD player is in the same room and has never been cleaned yet. I would hate to look in it, but at least it does not have a fan to suck in the dust.

We don't watch TV but we do watch DVDs allot and that Norcent player is as good as the day we got it. Between the wife and the kid and me, it plays alot. Often only one of us is watching it, like the wife or kid is watching something andI am busy on a computer, so it's random times it's playing for different people. Not like we all watch it all the time. Any of us may only watch one 2 hr movie but it played for 6 hours durring the day maybe.
I don't know how to tell how many hours are on it, but I know there has to be a couple thousand, at least I would think.
Sometimes it's not used at all for a couple days, but then other times it's playing all day long just about. I am sure the average is FAR more than 10hours week, so that would be a conservative 48weeks x10hrs for 480 hrs a year, X 3 years? And I am certain all those numbers are very low!

We often watch 2 or 3 movies in the same night, sometimes all night long it's playing movies.
I often watch a series of movies like all 4 of the Tremors in one night, or 3 beverlyhills cops, etc..
Sometimes it would be more correct to say listen to them because I will kinda watch them while I am doing stuff but only half watching.
I don't know how you would count the hours that the menus are playing, do those count or not? Sometimes and alot recently I fall asleep watching a DVD and the motion menus end up playing about all night long. I don't know if those are stored in a buffer or reading from the disks, but they are annoying when you get woke up by them all night long, but not awake enough to turn it off. Just rollover and go back to sleep most the time. That is why I am now doing movie only backups alot more now, get rid of those anoying menus that repeat forever!

So I would say 2,000 hours is a low geuss on mine and that's not counting when the kid plays CDs on it sometimes but not real often.
In the last 2 weeks it's played at least 30hrs aweek for sure between the 3 of us watching movies differnent times of the day.