That Pioneer looks good. I'll have to get one soon as the tray on my LG does not open without pushing the button a few times. My previous Samsung did the same.
Neither the Samsung or LG ever gave me toatsters or battled to read any dvds/cds but having them is sortof pointless when I can't even get a dvd into the drive
Just get anyone, they all going to give hassles, with all those mechanical parts and nowhere near as precision engineered and built as harddrives, its just something thats bound to break.