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If you're looking at doing this with any regularity, you might consider investing in a player designed for this sort of 'abuse.'
At work, we have roughly 75 Pioneer DVD-V7400 players that we put 9 hours/day, minimum, 364 days/year.
In two months, we're going to add another 20 players to the pile.
In the five years we've been using the 7400 (and its predecessor, the 7200) we've lost 6 or so players; two from a bad manufacturing lot (both died at 3-months) and had one dead-in-the-box.
Some are in areas with no air circulation. Some are in areas of high humidity.
These suckers are built to last. How many DVD players do you know that'll still be chugging along, as good as new, after 20,000 hours of run-time?
Down-side, of course. There are actually two.
1. Price. For most people, it'd be cheaper to buy 3 $150 players and rotate through them through the day. I don't remember the last price we paid, but I think it was about $700/ea. Maybe $650.
2. No progressive scan out.
Pioneer does claim to make a progressive industrial player, the DVD-V5000, but it looks like a piece of cheap consumer trash - the Walmart $50 DVD player type construction. Even the Pioneer USA sales people were blowing it off...
Can't go wrong with the 7400, though... unless you're in Europe, where its sold as the 7300.
Leo Kerr
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