THE CURTIS MATHES CMD5000 DVD player REVIEW

[Erwin]

This player has been sold on Ebay for as low as $64.00 which is pretty good considering the DVD player has a retail price of almost $159.

[Erwin]

Just an update....
It's been over 10 months since this review was posted and My Curtis Mathes DVD player has been very reliable player.

[Glenn Waters]

Here is a really great site for information about the real Curtis Mathes Company:

http://curtismathes.webs.com/

Keeping the DVD player cool is the main thing one needs to work on. Since it was made in China and not Texas, she had some design defects from the start. A good cooling fan can be inserted into the back of this unit and she will work forever, the problem with the Communist Chinese is they do not test or design products very well, if only we kept our factories over here in the United States and North America will would have great products to buy.

[16mmJunkie]

Neat site TYSM!

[Glenn Waters]

Check out the video below and you can see this Curtis Mathes model number CMD5000 is still going strong. I saved this one from the dumpster. Plus I got a Sony Trinitron Color TV Model Number KV-13FS100, Manufactured August 2004, Made in Mexico for Sony of Tokyo, Japan. Plus a Time Tunnel DVD disc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2NFmCaQmEA

[oldfart13]

I'm certain that many of us kept old equipment. My RCA RC5220P made in Mexico in 1999 works just fine but I have no need of a deck that old so I just retired it. Ditto with the old Apex players, the Panasonic E80H DVD recorder, etc. The only equipment that is really old that I try to keep going is the old standard and Super Beta Hi-Fi recorders which are used for transfers of my old Beta tape collection. Those decks are from the mid to late 1980's. The earlier decks are all retired now as there is little use for such equipment.

[Glenn Waters]

Here is another photo of the THE CURTIS MATHES CMD5000 DVD

[Glenn Waters]

I'm certain that many of us kept old equipment. My RCA RC5220P made in Mexico in 1999 works just fine but I have no need of a deck that old so I just retired it. Ditto with the old Apex players, the Panasonic E80H DVD recorder, etc. The only equipment that is really old that I try to keep going is the old standard and Super Beta Hi-Fi recorders which are used for transfers of my old Beta tape collection. Those decks are from the mid to late 1980's. The earlier decks are all retired now as there is little use for such equipment.

Luckily most older folks do keep their hard-earned electronics; but there are a great number of folks that think of this planet as a giant ashtray, the same people that replace their wife’s and children with newer models every five or ten years do the same with their electronics. Check out my video below:
Saved from the dump: Sony TV, Emerson VCR, and "Wild Wild West" VHS Tapes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfki7gj-hd4




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[oldfart13]

Keeping the old equipment is a problem though as there is only so much room. I had to dump several 35 cubic yard BFI bins worth of stuff when I moved last year but i have continued to keep the old tapes and acquired more as time has gone on. A good friend of mine now gets everything I can glean from those tapes. His stuff is here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Retrontario#p/a/u/1/iWdgkbPM3ho

I still have many hundreds of tapes to go through looking for things like station IDs, logos, commercials, local news items, old TV series, etc. Some of the stuff no longer exists from the stations that created it (like TVO) so the fan recordings are the last examples of material that would otherwise be lost to history. I have a number of "Holy Grail" recordings that do not appear to be online anywhere. Fun to dig up this old stuff but very time consuming...