TODAY, I BLEW UP our Samsung DVD player (at left). It was an accident meant to happen because I was running Saving Private Ryan at near-maximum volume to get the full effect of the bullets hitting corpses. When I pulled at one of the 5.1 speakers, I accidentally jerked its lead from the back of the DVD player. That effectively shorted out the DVD player and left us without a main source of entertainment. The unit was dead-black--no infrared light, no soft blue backlights. We liked the Samsung HT-Q20 a lot so I found my small screwdrivers in the gadget drawer and slid back its top cover, hoping to find a reset switch. Nothing but really sweet looking circuit boards inside. Resigned to buying another DVD player and this time ensuring nothing could pull its speaker cables loose, I slid the HT-Q20 back into the sitting room cabinet and covered it with a burial cloth. But then I noticed its little blue power light glowing! As luck would have it, the unit resets itself when its top cover slides back from the housing. That's good news for us and we hope to get at least five years of use from the DVD player.
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