No wonder Nick didn't write this one..

Sad..

More on this recall: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-c.cgi

I hope you're not planning to use a Chinese fire extinguisher to put it out!

Walmart products consist mainly of plastic Chinese junk. Most of what Walmart sells, falls apart in less than a month anyhow. No need for a recall on this DVD player.

Some of U may not think 12 mishaps is a big deal, until you happen to be the 13th incident !!!

"Wandering: Contrast this with Apple and it's Fanboys defending them after considerably more incidents,"

How many more?

I have one... Durabrand manufactured June 2006. Probably won't return it, don't need another piece of junk DVD player. Probably will stop using it, no need to tempt fate.

I probably own one of those, but I'm not going to return it.

Let's see, a dozen fires with 1.5 million of the things. So I'm supposed to fall over myself to return the damn thing when the drive to work that'll happen in a few hours is probably way more dangerous.

Wow, a total recall of millions of units based on a dozen events of burning. Contrast this with Apple and it's Fanboys defending them after considerably more incidents, and no action on their part whatsoever. Then decide which business is concerned with customer safety, with doing the right thing, and with owning it's responsibilities to the consumer.