Walmart Recalls DVD Players

[Richard King]

http://www.e-gear.com/article/walmart-us-consumer-product-safety-commission-announced-thursday-has-recall-15-million-dvd-players-durabrand-brand-411457_1.htmlWalmart and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday that it has the recall of 1.5 million DVD players, from the company's private-label Durabrand brand.

According to the recall report, the recall came after "12 reports of DVD players overheating, five of which have resulted in fires that caused property damage." The players were sold at Walmart stores between January 2006 through July 2009.

Those affected are encouraged to contact Walmart at www.walmartstores.com.

[hdtvfan0001]

http://www.e-gear.com/article/walmart-us-consumer-product-safety-commission-announced-thursday-has-recall-15-million-dvd-players-durabrand-brand-411457_1.html
12 units having a problem out of 1.5 million...hmmm.....

I heard about this one day before via Mrs HDTVFan who doesn't work for Walmart, but works with them indirectly....it came down to faulty Chinese parts....what a surprise....:D

[mountainDBS]

another reason not to by that brand from Wal-Mart. always turns out to be garbage :nono2:

[hdtvfan0001]

another reason not to by that brand from Wal-Mart. always turns out to be garbage :nono2:
Yup - you tend to be much safer with name brands there....

[Cholly]

Yup - you tend to be much safer with name brands there....

Unfortunately, the manufacturers of Durabrand electronics make products for name brands as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durabrand.
Check the various manufacturers in the article and you may be surprised at who they make products for. :eek2:

[hdtvfan0001]

Unfortunately, the manufacturers of Durabrand electronics make products for name brands as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durabrand.
Check the various manufacturers in the article and you may be surprised at who they make products for. :eek2:
Colby and the others may be name brands in some parts....but not major brands. I bet most folks haven't even heard of some of the others listed there.

All the brands lists are common "cheaper" labels for products. No surprise they use sheaper parts inside, raising the risk of such problems.

Bottom line - a low cost product provider with several labels out there - buyer beware.

[Cholly]

Colby and the others may be name brands in some parts....but not major brands. I bet most folks haven't even heard of some of the others listed there.

All the brands lists are common "cheaper" labels for products. No surprise they use sheaper parts inside, raising the risk of such problems.

Bottom line - a low cost product provider with several labels out there - buyer beware.

You apparently didn't understand my previous post. I'd suggested you look up the various manufacturers and see what other brands they make products for. Here are a few examples:

From Wikipedia article on Orion: Since 2001, Orion has been a supplier for Toshiba. Orion currently manufactures all CRT, Plasma, LCD televisions (sized 23" and under), and DVD/VCR combos for Toshiba, as well as some LCD televisions for Sharp, and DVD players for Onkyo and Pioneer.

Funai manufactures Philips and Magnavox televisions. http://www.funai.us/funai/topics/2008/080409.html

[hdtvfan0001]

You apparently didn't understand my previous post. I'd suggested you look up the various manufacturers and see what other brands they make products for. Here are a few examples:

From Wikipedia article on Orion: Since 2001, Orion has been a supplier for Toshiba. Orion currently manufactures all CRT, Plasma, LCD televisions (sized 23" and under), and DVD/VCR combos for Toshiba, as well as some LCD televisions for Sharp, and DVD players for Onkyo and Pioneer.

Funai manufactures Philips and Magnavox televisions. http://www.funai.us/funai/topics/2008/080409.html
Actually I read it all...but ther pertinent information to the recalled DVD players is regarding off-brands like Coby.

At the end of the day...many China, Taiwan, or Japan products have various lables on them.

[Cholly]

The basic truth here is this: You never know where a store branded product comes from. As cited in the Wikipedia article on Durabrand, there are many Asian companies that make the product line. My point is this: major brands are not exempt from being outsourced. Witness the references to Philips, Magnavox, Toshiba, Sharp, Onkyo and Pioneer. Try tracing the lineage of RCA and GE televisions (Thomson Consumer Electronics makes both) and GE small appliances (actually a Walmart store brand!), Insignia electronics products (predominantly Best Buy), Olevia TV's (originally made by Syntax-Brillian, which went Chapt. 11 last year and sold the line to Emerson Radio Corp.).

[hdtvfan0001]

The basic truth here is this: You never know where a store branded product comes from.
Most of the time...that is certainly true.

[GrumpyBear]

Most of the time...that is certainly true.

None of this is new nor confined to just consumer electronics. I cut my Teeth in the computer business working Quality Control for a Large computer maker, that had there own brand, and made parts for competitors as well. What company got what was based on quality control failure rates on production run. Product runs that had low failure rates, went to the top tier companies as they paid more for them. Runs with high failure rates went to the low bidders, as it was better than just throwing them away, and low bidders are hoping on two things, there wont be enough failures to keep them from making a profit, and that the product will last long enough that once it does fail, its out of warrenty and the user will think well it lasted long enough for the money. This goes on to this very day, from Electronic, to car parts.

[Dave]

Probably the worst of the worst was and is Goldstar Brands. I remember how cheply they were made. And now guess what? The have tried to make there self respectable by changing there name a few years ago to**********
LG.:nono2::nono2::nono2::nono2:

[dave1234]

It would be a challenge to name a brand that isn't doesn't contain Chinese parts. What you get with a name brand is better quality parts, many still Chinese. However it's well known in the industry Chinese parts are generally lower quality, but it's tought to resist the low price.
FWIW Thomson no longer owns the RCA brand, they sold it to a Chinese company... I wonder when the Chinese will be purchasing the "USA" brand. :(
Also to clarify Chinese = mainland China, not Taiwan or Japan, both of which generally make quality parts.

[Zellio]

Durabrand doesn't sound durable lolz.... :uglyhamme :uglyhamme :uglyhamme

[Cholly]

Probably the worst of the worst was and is Goldstar Brands. I remember how cheply they were made. And now guess what? The have tried to make there self respectable by changing there name a few years ago to**********
LG.:nono2::nono2::nono2::nono2:

Ummm...I have a Goldstar stereo VCR that still works very well after many years. Granted, it gets used very little these days, but it was far more serviceable than the $500 Fisher mono VCR it replaced. I have two LG computer DVD drives and an LG cellular phone, all of which are very reliable. The only LG product I've had a problem with is my LG BH200 combination HD DVD/Blu-ray player, which suddenly stopped working in the boot cycle. It is currently at LG's repair center in Huntsville.

Actually, LG stands for "Lucky Goldstar" (derived from two of the group's operations - Lucky - originally named Lak Hui (chemicals), and Goldstar (electronics) and was shortened to its current name in 1995. LG Group is a huge Korean conglomerate, manufacturing chemicals, plastics, telecommunications, home appliances and electronics.

Charlie