Annoying DVD Home Theater Player Is History

[Dane]

Perhaps this will be of interest to some of you that don’t care for the DVD home theater system that came with your 2004 Montana.

The only real source of annoyance we’ve had with our 2004 2955RL is the Quest Home Theater DVD player that came with our unit. As many have commented in this forum, this is not a very user-friendly piece of electronics. The owner’s manual is of little help in trying to figure out various functions, such as AM/FM. About ten weeks ago our Quest DVD player continued to put out sound, but would not produce video when playing a DVD. We took it to our dealer. He confirmed the problem and ordered us a new home theater player. When the new Quest unit came in, the eject function would not work. Our dealer told us that he has learned to check this because the eject feature doesn’t work in about half of the new Quest units he tests.

At this point I decided to spend a few bucks and take the problem into my own hands. I purchased a 150-watt (same output as the Quest) Audiovox 5.1 Home Theater at Target this week for $77 on sale. We continue to use all of our existing speakers, but I installed the new DVD player in place of the old. It took about twenty minutes. We now have excellent picture quality, better sound quality, and very good radio. To attach the unit for travel, I drilled two new screw holes, stuck two of those circular chair leg bottom pads on the base of the DVD player, and screwed into those pads.