DVD dies

DVD player occasionally would go white screen but after cool off a few min,
came back. Now went slow, froze, then on restart jerky. Then no image, keeps
trying to engage. FInally says wrong disc. Try sev disks,same thing. Does it
need cleaning? Is the light dead? How do I know? Why does it seem that in
both rec and computer use, CD device lives longer than DVD?

Much obliged for any help

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[Michael Black]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

DVD player occasionally would go white screen but after cool off a few min,
came back. Now went slow, froze, then on restart jerky. Then no image, keeps
trying to engage. FInally says wrong disc. Try sev disks,same thing. Does it
need cleaning? Is the light dead? How do I know? Why does it seem that in
both rec and computer use, CD device lives longer than DVD?

Much obliged for any help

It's really easy to clean the lens, so once you get access to the lens
(which may sometimes be an issue), it's worth the effort since for most
people, that's the limit of what they can do. I even found a nice DVD
player (with HDMI output) a couple of years ago, finding it on top of a
pile of garbage, the cover off, the cover to the lense unscrewed. Someone
seemed to be trying to clean it, and then gave up. I cleaned it, and it
was fine.

The denser something is, the more finicky it gets. A CD can hold about
500megs of data, a DVD ten times as much. And a DVD player may actually
see more use, a movie takes longer to play than a CD.

Michael

 

*+-It's really easy to clean the lens, so once you get access to the lens
*+-(which may sometimes be an issue), it's worth the effort since for most
*+-people, that's the limit of what they can do. I even found a nice DVD
*+-player (with HDMI output) a couple of years ago, finding it on top of a
*+-pile of garbage, the cover off, the cover to the lense unscrewed. Someone
*+-seemed to be trying to clean it, and then gave up. I cleaned it, and it
*+-was fine.



Hm.. thanks.. I take it the lense like thing that almost touches the disk
isn't the lense you mean?



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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]

 

[josephkk]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:12:54 +0000 (UTC),
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

*+-It's really easy to clean the lens, so once you get access to the lens
*+-(which may sometimes be an issue), it's worth the effort since for most
*+-people, that's the limit of what they can do. I even found a nice DVD
*+-player (with HDMI output) a couple of years ago, finding it on top of a
*+-pile of garbage, the cover off, the cover to the lense unscrewed. Someone
*+-seemed to be trying to clean it, and then gave up. I cleaned it, and it
*+-was fine.



Hm.. thanks.. I take it the lense like thing that almost touches the disk
isn't the lense you mean?

Actually it very likely is. Focusing to the few micron level means small
size and distances.

?-)