From the outside, all appears well, but this player had suffered a little in transit from Northern Ireland. Not much happened when I plugged it in apart from some odd internal noises, which I discovered were due to the whole laser assembly having come off the runners at the hands of Parcelforce. It wasn't too much trouble to fix, but even now the player has some residual traits of unreliability, such as consistently incorrectly calculating the final frame on a CAV disc.

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