Dave, I really enjoy your videos! I used to have a similar model, a Philips obviously, I used it heavily for 14 years straight. They weren’t that bad, now I’ve a Pioneer DV 310, I’d love to see you working on one of those one day! Have a nice one
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
I can only work on what i get my hands on.
@paulr23897 ай бұрын
I owe you a debt of gratitude and then some! I have a Toshiba DVD which had been acting up in a similar way. The drive looks suspiciously similar (with only the one screw, etc). Your vid gave me the kick in the head to check what you did - to re-seat the laser ribbon. Darn if it didn't fix the issue the same way! Many thanks! -Paul
@paulr23897 ай бұрын
Update: The problem started coming back - about 1/2-way through a video, it would stutter and hang. Here's another good lesson about this issue... 1) Inspected the ribbon cable closely and found a kink in it which had separated the layers, at least one or two deep, causing one or more of the traces to open. 2) tried applying a little (pin-tip) of conductive paint into the gap. You know, the stuff that supposedly "fixes" remotes. I figured this would either temporarily demonstrate it could work, or it would fail completely due to creating an internal short. 3) Result: It failed, and I suspect the experiment caused an internal short between traces in the ribbon. 4) Actually found a similar ribbon cable on-line and the player now works perfectly! Lesson: Ribbon cables do fail internally if a manufacturer routes them so that they encounter undue stress, such as for head-movement in CD or DVD players. 😊
@alexispieltin93797 ай бұрын
That's an interesting video about these players, and how you luckily found a solution. There's so few now to check or fix it's generally cheaper to replace them from the beginning. Most of these DVD or Blue ray players kind look very similar, most are now brand licenced products but made in the same global chinese factory with a common engineering and economical design. So your video can give some excellent hints to curious people or anyone still trying to fix things! Many had similar issues with some of these flat ribbon connectors you can have everywhere now. I remember back in the 80's, when found the fragile first in a japanese car player and later in a TV remote (from Philips!). These are now ubiquitous in many systems, from your laptop to your washing machine, and most a nightmare to replace or repair when problematic.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
None of this crap is worth repairing these days. I do these videos to help those that want to try to repair their own equipment. They certainly are not worth repairing commercially. That's why i left the repair business over 20 years ago.
@donbest50247 ай бұрын
Love your rain dvd video,i thought about making a Christmas tree video and displaying on one of my tvs so i don't need to put a tree up in living room.
@EastAngliaUK7 ай бұрын
nice little player
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
When it works.
@NeobladeGamer7 ай бұрын
Where do I get that small a screw driver?
@kyoudaiken7 ай бұрын
MPEG2 was a very limited codec. It had bi-directional prediction, but only on two frames one after another. IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB was the GOP structure. I = Key frame, each half a second on NTSC so 15 frames in one GOP. It's basically almost just MJPEG, many many key frames. And the key frames were litterally just a JPEG. The others had limited motion prediction, pixel prediction and filtering. Can't expect much compression from that with such a footage without sacrificing image quality. The maximum bitrate on DVD was AFAIK 9.3 MBit/s, including audio and overhead.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
Variable bit rate. Bursts up to 12mbits.
@davidbailey63507 ай бұрын
👌
@zx8401ztv7 ай бұрын
On some units ive taken some sharp scissors and cut a tiny bit off the end of the ribbon. Dents with black corrosian are troublesome.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
Yup that will do it.
@Masterj37126 ай бұрын
What's the fix for the Lens not moving laterally across the disc? All other functions are good to go. MJ. In B'dos.
@12voltvids6 ай бұрын
That depends on why it's not moving across the disk. Could be stuck mechanically or it could be an electrical fault.
@Krencik685 ай бұрын
Hi I have a Sony dvd recorder, there’s a little blue led that’s lit up and won’t power on, no display. Any idea what it could be? Model rdr gx255
@manthosalmaliotisАй бұрын
I have a Philips dvd player dvp5980 and it has hdmi port, when i use it to watch dvd it starts playing and then the whole system freezes (and the picture+sound) I can't even turn it off either from remote or the button on the player, but when i use the composite ports its working fine, is there anything that I can do?
@DragRacingMediaOfThePast7 ай бұрын
How can i go about sending you a Toshiba DVR660 that needs the tape loading mechanism fixed? I asked before and you said reach out in an email, but i got no response when i asked where to find that email.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
It's under the about tab on the main page.
@lox_5017 ай бұрын
Dave, can't believe Philps would go that cheap in their construction. Nice video though.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
Yes they got cheap but the pickup says Sony on it.
@tacofortgens34717 ай бұрын
Its not Philips anymore, a Chinese brand has a license to use their name. Philips latest products were made in the 2000s anbilight tvs and sacd players
@tacofortgens34717 ай бұрын
@@12voltvidsphilips hasnt lade products for 20 years, its a chinese company that licenses the philips brand name. Nothing philips about it.
@kyoudaiken7 ай бұрын
@@tacofortgens3471 The "REAL" Philips is solely making medical instruments since decades now. Philips was a joint venture between Germany and Netherlands. In North America, their brand name was Magnavox. After a few awesome innovations like the CD together with Sony, the compact cassette they had innovations and burned money for failed products like the DCC (digital compact cassette).
@AH-zm2me7 ай бұрын
That "spinup" didn't look right when it failed to play. Spindle motor may have a bad spot or may have some other mechanical interference. If it stops working again, give it a little kick start with your finger as the laser is trying to focus. Sometimes you can get those going temporarily if it's not too bad. Replaced a few bad spindle motors back in the day when CD and DVD players were worth fixing (or rather their owners were willing to pay to have them fixed). Doubt the quality has improved much since.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
There was no light from the laser. I could see the lens rising but no red light from the lens, so the laser was not working initially.
@joshhoman7 ай бұрын
If anything, the quality has gone down even further.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
@@joshhoman cheap cheap
@joshhoman7 ай бұрын
Yes sir, that is the order of the day.@@12voltvids
@cortessarge53997 ай бұрын
Pioneer pd 106 won’t play sir wont spin laser had light what is the problem sir? Thank you
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
Broken
@cortessarge53997 ай бұрын
@@12voltvids no need to change the lens? How to trouble shoot ?
@kyoudaiken7 ай бұрын
@@cortessarge5399 Check the voltages, reseat ribbon cables, theck if the mechanism is stuck and if so clean and relube it. Clean the lens using Isopropanol / Isopropyl 99% and try different type of disks.
@cortessarge53997 ай бұрын
@@kyoudaiken thank you very much sir for helping me to trouble shoot my cd player because i dont have CD player 🙏
@andr277 ай бұрын
damn, I have been struggling with that CD/DVD players like decades ago, cheap crap from china with exactly same electronics inside.
@12voltvids7 ай бұрын
Not just China. Japan turned out their share of cheap crap too.