Hi all I have an old-ish Toshiba DVD player which until now has done good service. Recently it's developed a fault and I'm wondering if it's likely to be repairable.
What happens is that at intervals, the output from the player becomes tinged with a green, or green/magenta, hue, and simultaneously lots of macroblock type interferences occurs on the video. The audio is (mostly) OK, although there are occasional 'chirrups'. However the actual player part appears to be working fine - no hunting or skipping AFAICT.
If the fault occurs as you power on the unit, then it looks like the player's 'welcome' screen is affected in a similar way. This, together with the lack of player skipping or hunting, makes me think it's likely to be a fault in the decoder chain - either the decoder itself (Zoran), or the associated memory.
I have opened up the unit and cleaned the main board of dust etc. to no effect. I am also going to try using the other video outputs the unit has - S-VHS instead of the (I assume) RGB my scart lead is currently using. If that fails I was going to waft a heat gun around the general area of the Decoder and memory on the mainboard. But is there anything more ... targeted ... I might try, before giving up on the player?
Thanks for any suggestions.
J^n