About had it with Oppo BDP-93

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Bought this thing about six years ago to replace a problematic Sony because I read they were the best on the market.

After about a year the thing started being problematic reading certain discs. Maybe 5 out of a library of 1,000.

Symptoms: If you sit close, you hear the disc spin up, then the drive makes a "chugging" sound and if you got lucky it'd go to the title screen. More often than not after 30 seconds of chugging it would simple go back to the Oppo screen and say "Stop" even though you never pressed stop. If you did get the title screen and hit Play you'd get chugged to death 50% of the time or actually get to watch the movie.

Now, it does it with every disc. DVD and Bluray alike.

Ironically, the Sony it replaced I still own and is still problematic but hasn't got any worse in the last 6 years. So a couple weeks back I bit the bullet and bought another Sony.

I'm a little bitter about this Oppo though because I spent around $600 on it and it only worked perfectly for one year and after six is completely useless. My $200 Sony worked flawlessly for eight years and is still in better shape than the Oppo 14 years later (ie, it can still be used).

Anyone have any ideas about saving this pile of crap?

I've Googled relentlessly for this issue with the player but apparently no one has ever had any issues with them, ever.