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Product

Coby COBY TFDVD170 Portable DVD Players With Built-in TV Tuner

Category

TV

Report number

20120709-65274-2147465887

Ownership age

About 60 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20120709-65274-2147465887. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Coby COBY TFDVD170 Portable DVD Players With Built-in TV Tuner. Source model text: TD-DVD170. Incident: At about 430 AM, I was asleep and I was suddenly awaken by a loud popping sound & dark smoke. I jumped up to see what it was I noticed that my Coby portable TV was on fire. I picked it up and rushed it out onto my balcony. When I came back into my room I noticed there was a large hole burned into my carpet & the walls were black.

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