Have the same 5 load rotating table CD player for 25years. Sanyo, worked like a charm, never a problem. You'd expect something to go wrong and just doesn't.
Still original DVD player and works better than the newer bluray player. When I put a bluray disc in the thing chews on it like a cat munching a rat and takes minutes before deciding whether it plays it or spits it out. Sometimes not at all...Sometimes it will just make the chewing sound for 10mins and do nothing as far as playing the disc. Bluray such a crap garbage format. So much security features loaded on those some bluray players simply won't play the discs.
Never had the trouble you describe with DVD's but then I'm very careful with them. Fingerprints can stop them from playing but a clean will do the trick.
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