Absolutely fabulous was like the female version of Bottom🤣 👍 excellent fix Mr lux

Nice fix 👍 That eject button might need some contact cleaner and maybe new belt would make the disc tray open/close mechanism more reliable in the longer run, but seems to be working now even as is. The upcoming video about your 2003 device sounds also very interesting, looking forward to watch it. From the silver colour and mirror finish front panel styling, your Philips dvd player is probably about same age as my dvd player, which is United brand from 2004, still working as well. I guess they did pretty good products back then, as my Philips VHS VCR is also from 2003, and still working too. Over 20 years without any repairs is pretty well done for such a complex electro-mechanical product like VCR. I certainly used it to my full satisfaction back in the day, so it's not like it wasn't used much :D Lately of course it's gotten much less use, but I still try to watch my old tapes with it at least few times in a year to give it some action. Looks like moving mechanical parts get stuck if they stand still for a long time, lubcrication dry out, etc.

Dont spray anything in to a dvd or cd player Dorian-it usually causes the laser unit problems, if you take of the piece that goes across the top of the disc (the top clamp) then this will allow you to remove the loading tray completely, and you can then wash it to get all the old grease off, and also clean all the worm gears etc, then just reinstall the tray, and fit a new belt, but you did get it working after all

I think the Belt is stretch maybe dirty also