"When last we met," I reported our original Cyberhome DVD player (let's call it "Fred") had apparently given up the ghost. We got up one morning to find that our Hi-Def TV feed had gone haywire on the color and "Fred" was only giving us a vertical blue line.

The Hi-Def feed was okay by the next day, but "Fred" seemed shot, with the same blue line. So while I was out today, I went to see if Brandsmart had any more and what they were selling it for. I didn't find any Cyberhomes. When I got home and checked online, I could find the brand on Amazon, but not at any "box" stores. Doing a bit more searching, I found Best Buy had apparently quit carrying them since they were getting so many complaints.

Well, whatever. I would just swap out the nonworking unit with the one in the guest room (let's call the bedroom unit "Barney"). Brandsmart has another little DVD player, an eTEC, that we could buy instead. Meanwhile, we really aren't expecting any guests who will want to watch DVDs (we had bought the DVD player in the guest room for my mom anyway).

So I pulled out "Fred" and installed "Barney" under the television. I had wondered if something was wrong with the S-video cable leading into the unit, but "Barney" worked flawlessly. Just to see, I set up "Fred" up in the bedroom and turned it on.

Darned if "Fred" didn't work fine now.

So either perhaps the S-video cable was loose in "Fred" or perhaps the S-video connection in the unit was bad, since it is hitched up to the television in the bedroom with RCA cables instead.

Who knows? :-)

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