Are they all prone to breaking down that fast?
I find it hard to believe that a $3,000 deck has no better reliability than a $300 deck. I was looking at the Alpine and Kenwood, the top model Alpine has 1.1 million pixels, so it's picture quality is superior to anything Kenwood and Pioneer.
Pioneer is no longer an option because the Kenwood deck outperforms it in anyway, the Kenwood has touch screen, plays so many formats, has a TV Tuner, has a ton more featuers the Alpine and Pioneer decks dont.
Kenwood quality can't be that bad can it? I mean it's not like I'm buying the base model dvd player, I'm buying the best Kenwood has to offer.