Starlite Consumer Products DVD Player question

I have a 95 day old (90 day warranty) DVD player that intermittently refuses to read dvds. Typically, after 4 or 5 loading tries, the disc is finally recognized. When it fails, the LED lights up, the carriage moves back and forth many times, the tv shows loading, and then finally gives a no-disc signal on the tv. After I removed the cover, nothing changed. I have pushed on all the cables and sockets, and also pushed on the various PWBs, all with no changes noted.

Any suggestions besides adding to the next grbage collection.

H. R.(Bob) Hofmann

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Homer J Simpson

The very first test for any DVD player that won't read DVD discs, is to try a CD in it. In general ( although I wouldn't suggest in 100% of cases ) a player that will play CD's, but not DVD's, has a defective laser. If it won't play either medium, this usually indicates a faulty mpeg board ( general name for the data decoding and processing board ). From experience, many of the cheapo brands employ a standard IDE computer-type drive, and these seem to fair much less well in domestic players, than they do in computers, particularly in the case of DVD recorders. It is not unusual for DVD players to fail this early in their life. I replace many lasers and deck assemblies in players much less than a year old, but it's not usually an issue, as the manufacturer's warranty is normally at least 1 year. Is this one of yours second hand, as 90 days warranty doesn't seem right unless it is ?

Arfa

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Arfa Daily

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:53:06 -0800, hr(bob) snipped-for-privacy@att.net Has Frothed:

I've got a couple el-cheapo players and they generally refuse to load if the disc has even the slightest bit of dust, scratches or fingerprints. Your 90 day warranty may be for labor but generally parts are covered for a year.

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Meat Plow

You may want to check out the spindle motor. Common failure with requent use.

A friend of mine suckered me into making an attempt to revive a Panasonic DVD-RV26 player recently. Did some research on the error code (HO2) which was regarded to refer to pickup failure. Watching it during spin up something didn't look quite right and there seemed to be a little too much resistance when turning the disc platter manually. I don't work on much consumer stuff so I don't have a stock of motors to swap out to verify the problem. So I removed the motor and popped the back off. Cleaned the shaft, bushings and brushes. Lubed the bushings, assembled it and tossed it back in. Took right off.

So I tell him I basically put a band-aid on the problem and if it starts acting up again the motor needs replacing.

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boardjunkie

Error message " H02 " refers specifically to spindle motor failure on all models of Panasonic. It does not indicate pickup failure, so wherever you found that little gem on the 'net, it's wrong. The spindle motor for Pans comes pre-assembled onto a subdeck, with the turntable already fitted, as the turntable height is critical to correct operation.

Arfa

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Arfa Daily

Now the unit is working reliably again, so I put the cover back on and we'll see what happens. The warranty was for 90 days parts and labor. I have it here in CO at my condo, and it was only used a few times as I was back in IL for most of the 90 days. Not worth worrying about, but thanx for the comments. I'll look at the dvd repair site to get some ideas if it happens again.

H. R.(Bob) Hofmann

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hrhofmann

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:18:22 GMT, "Arfa Daily" put finger to keyboard and composed:

I'm sure I've only seen a tiny fraction of the players that you have, but I haven't yet encountered an IDE interface in anything other than a DVDR. It seems to me that a really cheap design would try to move all the expensive "smarts" to the encoder PCB. Lately I've been hacking my Tevion player (Sunplus chipset). The MPEG decoder chip does everything including RF and servo functions (and DivX/USB/card reader). Only an additional 5-ch motor control chip is needed to control the spin/tray/sled motors and the focus/tracking coils. This is despite the SPHE8202/8281 chip's ability to support ATAPI. Other designs based on the popular MT13x9 Mediatek chipsets also seem to prefer this approach.

- Franc Zabkar

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Franc Zabkar

Hi Franc

I do a lot of work for a couple of companies who behave as repair agents for the insurance companies that act to handle the guarantees for some of the big supermarkets and "bonanza-type" electronics retail outlets. For the most part, the cheap end stuff that they sell are just Korean or Chinese 'no-names', and it's not at all uncommon for them to employ just bog standard computer DVD drives, which are complete with a drive electronics board that handles all of the getting-off-the-disc of the data and primary processing of it. A comparitively simple interface and decoding board is all that's then necessary. I would guess that these drives are now so cheap - and some of the ones I see come from quite famous manufacturers - that it makes financial sense to just buy them in, and glue them together with some simple interface electronics, to create a complete player that costs little more than the retail price of a basic drive to go in your computer.

Arfa

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Arfa Daily

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