DVD player that stopped responding to the front panel buttons. I pressed the "key lock" button on the r/c and normal service resumed. This is a player , not recorder , why a key lock function? Owner is a highly respected silicon foundryman with IBM
to be fair on him , no legend on the CCD saying locked keys or any indication of that state
I got one about the same. Toshiba bigscreen, no sound on some channels. I pushed a button on the rmeote to disengage the SAP mode.
N_Cook forklarede den 08-12-2012:
Perhaps the keylock is to prevent customers to stop the DVD-player playing annyoing "infomercials" playing in supermarkets and malls.
-- Husk kørelys bagpå, hvis din bilfabrikant har taget den idiotiske beslutning at undlade det.
I remember finding my father's hidden stash of Penthouse, I should think a hidden remote was easier to find than a few DVDs.
I would expect the designer to have placed a red key icon in the CCD display. Owner had already bought a new replacement DVD player, so avoided the conundrum of what "repair" fee to charge
Examples?
One I fixed:
Customer complained unit did NOT work at all! Worked the day before, but today - nothing. I went around to the back and found the AC plug for the AC outlet lying on the floor. Plugging it in, worked fine. Seems the clean up crew had unplugged the unit, moved for cleaning, put back, but neglected to re-plug it in.
Good laugh, no charge.
One somebody fixed for me [this was SUPER embarrassing]
During a very cold December, we recently moved into a new home with two zones/units for thermostatic control. The heating would NOT come on in the master bedroom and auxiliary bedrooms [both along west side of home adjacent to Kitchen and Family Room] so we were freezing either while sleeping or in newly established office. I turned on and off each of the two thermostats which clearly activated two sections - an 'in-law' section in the north end of home and the kitchen/family room in the south end, but still not the MB section! We froze, so I turned the unit on in the kitchen/FR area so that heat could 'leak' back into the MB. Those rooms were HOT. MB tolerable. I even went up into the attic to find the two units, but the one feeding the MB would not run at all!
Upon calling furnace repair. He had to drive a long way to rural home. He walked in. Turned on/off the two units I had worked with, verifying they were functioning. Then, he went down a small hallway outside those auxiliary bedrooms, found another thermostat on the wall and turned on the third unit!!! ...I didn't know there were THREE zones! Simply assumed there were only two zones [from memory description of house] - verified by trip to attic where saw the 'two' units. Never saw the third thermostat!
He laughed for the longest time, and said he just didn't feel right to charge for 'turning on the thermostat' and left. Proving what goes around comes around. Needless to say, they're our repair service from then on.
PS: I promptly moved a new thermostat from the hallway to the MB where it really belonged! After all, this hallway was heated/cooled by the unit that ran the kit/FR, so the two would constantly conflict. Left the thermostat on the hallway wall simply to 'read' the temperature.
Actually he should have at least got time and gas.
VCR that would immediately eject tape after it was loaded, used in childs room. Opened the case and found a dried-out, mummified goldfish corpse in the mechanism. Upon removal, the VCR worked perfectly.
reminded me of this one Audio cassette player, very weak and distorted sound
Just opening the flap it was obvious, a lump of marmalade stuck to the head. Excuseable as the owner was blind. I taught him how to recognise the rec/play head by touch, via the 2 nibs, and should be smooth. And dug out a worn head so he could feel the groove worn in the face, for future reference.
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ayou just reminded me! When once living at an 'upscale' apartment complex found left for trash [items out of date and items too heavy to move were often left in the trash areas] I found an Epson color inkjet printer neatly sitting with its cord wrapped around it. Couldn't pass up the education of internals so retrieved it. Upon feeding in a page, every page would tear a streak down the middle and printer would NOT let a single page through. During the process of cleaning, found a kernel of popcorn almost completely flat wedged in the intake rollers. Upon removing the block, the printer has worked very well for a long time, even had working black and color inkjet cartridges!.
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