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August 20, 2009

Walmart recalls 1.5 million DVD players

Have you or someone you know bought a DVD player from Walmart? You might --- more than 1.5 million Durabrand DVD players -- silver units with Pac-Man-shaped openings for discs --- were sold between January 2006 and July 2009.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has received 12 reports of the portable players overheating, and five cases where the units have caused fires.

Walmart has issued a voluntary recall of these DVD players before anyone else gets burned. Don't take chances --- take this back to the store for a refund.

The units had remote controls and cost about $29.

For more information, call Walmart at (800) 925-6278 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Central Monday through Friday.

Posted by Liz Kay at 2:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Consumer safety

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Thanks Liz - I happen to own one of these and never would have known about this w/o the post.

Posted by: Peter | August 22, 2009 11:56 PM

Thanks Liz, I also had one that was acting up when it got hot. Thank goodness your info helped avoid a dangerous situation.

Posted by: ann | August 24, 2009 8:08 AM

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