I’ve owned many CD players, DVD players and changers, BD players, $2K and $3K Denon Universal players. Even Many $1500 Pioneer LaserDisc players and one $800 Toshiba HD-DVD Player. None of them have died on me.
And then I got a $200 Sony 4K UHD player that died after 2 years. Also two $1K Sony TVs that died after 6 years. And I’ve never had any TV die on me in my life. So either it’s just bad luck or they don’t make them like they used to.
So it makes me want to spend less on these things so that I can use the rest of the money on replacing them in a few years.
As for media players, these days I mainly use my HTPC (that I built) anyway.