I posted this thread on HTF but never recieved a response. I love this forum and I am a proud ascend owner so im hoping someone here can give me some advise. So i purchased a Sony 5-disc DVD player from circuit city late august. Come december first it stopped playing DVD's, 4 days outside my 90 day parts and labor warranty. Well it will play the DVD's maybe 10% of the time and cd's maybe 50% of the time. Other than that it just keeps saying loading on the dvd player. I paid about $185 for it and Circuit city will only take returns for 90 days. So what should I do? Is it possible that after this short period of time the lens is dirty and just needs to be wiped off? If so I think I would have to take apart the dvd player. Also the component outlets stopped working. So i saw that Sony has the Parts warranty for a year but i would have to pay for labor and shipping. Which sounds expensive. Has anyone sent something to sony before? How expensive is it going to be? or if anyone else has any other recomendations on what i could do please let me know. Thanks In Advance