On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:19:01 +0100,
(ts) wrote:

Is it a particularly wonderful player? The current sub-£100 Sonys are
really very good.

Not really - but in mint condition, and playing most of my CD collection
perfectly, it still seems to good to scrap.

Failing to play some CDs doesn't strike me as a definition of "mint
condition", unless you're just referring to an unmarked case :-)

These things do wear out. Perhaps the laser is just getting weak.

We're talking consumer electronics, not family heirlooms for goodness'
sake :-)