I have DVD player that will freeze up, while playing. The image stays on but with no further progress. At times when this happens,the player will not respond from remote control. I pull out power plug, restart movie and often times it will freeze in almost the same spot on the movie. The DVD is new, and it happens with others in much the same way. The player is a Cyber Home, and hasn't had much play time hours. Any Suggestions?
Could be a capacitor in the power supply, dirty optical pickup, dried up grease, feel free to open it up and fiddle with it, Cyber Home is a bargain bin cheapie so you won't find a tech willing to work on it and it would cost more than buying a new one. If it's less than a year old it might be under warranty.
Agreed. Toss it and buy another one.
Is the DVD gold on the bottom. If it is then it is a dual-layer disc. Some players, especially the cheap-ass ones, don't like these but the name-brand players don't have any trouble playing them.
Anyway if I were you I would exchange it for a Sony, JVC, Panasonic or Toshiba.
In addition to the above, some Cyberhome models (eg the CH-DVD3xx series) have a flexible cable going to the optical pickup which is too short, and with time the wires inside it can break or become intermittent. This can be an additional cause for symptoms such as those the OP described.
Cyberhome USA is defunct after the US Customs seizure last spring, so even if professional repair were chosen, the available of custom parts (like the optical pickup) is doubtful.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:58:41 -0600, GD Has Frothed:
Take it back and exchange it if you can. I had a couple of those cheapies and ended up chucking them in the trash.
-- Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004 COOSN-266-06-25794
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:15:34 -0800, Archie McRimmon put finger to keyboard and composed:
Lately I've been taking a close look at the innards of DVD players. It seems to me that the cheap players most often have Sony or Sanyo laser pickups.
For example, a cheap Teac DVD-2120 player (a rebadged Nintaus N9321) uses a Sony KHM-280AAA pickup.
FWIW, a Harman Kardon DVD22 player uses a Sanyo DV34 pickup, the same as my cheap $40 supermarket player.
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