Dave, I really enjoy your videos! I used to have a similar model, a Philips obviously, I used it heavily for 14 years straight. They weren’t that bad, now I’ve a Pioneer DV 310, I’d love to see you working on one of those one day! Have a nice one
I owe you a debt of gratitude and then some! I have a Toshiba DVD which had been acting up in a similar way. The drive looks suspiciously similar (with only the one screw, etc). Your vid gave me the kick in the head to check what you did - to re-seat the laser ribbon. Darn if it didn't fix the issue the same way! Many thanks! -Paul
Update: The problem started coming back - about 1/2-way through a video, it would stutter and hang. Here's another good lesson about this issue... 1) Inspected the ribbon cable closely and found a kink in it which had separated the layers, at least one or two deep, causing one or more of the traces to open. 2) tried applying a little (pin-tip) of conductive paint into the gap. You know, the stuff that supposedly "fixes" remotes. I figured this would either temporarily demonstrate it could work, or it would fail completely due to creating an internal short. 3) Result: It failed, and I suspect the experiment caused an internal short between traces in the ribbon. 4) Actually found a similar ribbon cable on-line and the player now works perfectly! Lesson: Ribbon cables do fail internally if a manufacturer routes them so that they encounter undue stress, such as for head-movement in CD or DVD players. 😊
That's an interesting video about these players, and how you luckily found a solution. There's so few now to check or fix it's generally cheaper to replace them from the beginning. Most of these DVD or Blue ray players kind look very similar, most are now brand licenced products but made in the same global chinese factory with a common engineering and economical design. So your video can give some excellent hints to curious people or anyone still trying to fix things! Many had similar issues with some of these flat ribbon connectors you can have everywhere now. I remember back in the 80's, when found the fragile first in a japanese car player and later in a TV remote (from Philips!). These are now ubiquitous in many systems, from your laptop to your washing machine, and most a nightmare to replace or repair when problematic.
None of this crap is worth repairing these days. I do these videos to help those that want to try to repair their own equipment. They certainly are not worth repairing commercially. That's why i left the repair business over 20 years ago.
Love your rain dvd video,i thought about making a Christmas tree video and displaying on one of my tvs so i don't need to put a tree up in living room.
MPEG2 was a very limited codec. It had bi-directional prediction, but only on two frames one after another. IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB was the GOP structure. I = Key frame, each half a second on NTSC so 15 frames in one GOP. It's basically almost just MJPEG, many many key frames. And the key frames were litterally just a JPEG. The others had limited motion prediction, pixel prediction and filtering. Can't expect much compression from that with such a footage without sacrificing image quality. The maximum bitrate on DVD was AFAIK 9.3 MBit/s, including audio and overhead.
I have a Philips dvd player dvp5980 and it has hdmi port, when i use it to watch dvd it starts playing and then the whole system freezes (and the picture+sound) I can't even turn it off either from remote or the button on the player, but when i use the composite ports its working fine, is there anything that I can do?
How can i go about sending you a Toshiba DVR660 that needs the tape loading mechanism fixed? I asked before and you said reach out in an email, but i got no response when i asked where to find that email.
That "spinup" didn't look right when it failed to play. Spindle motor may have a bad spot or may have some other mechanical interference. If it stops working again, give it a little kick start with your finger as the laser is trying to focus. Sometimes you can get those going temporarily if it's not too bad. Replaced a few bad spindle motors back in the day when CD and DVD players were worth fixing (or rather their owners were willing to pay to have them fixed). Doubt the quality has improved much since.
Its not Philips anymore, a Chinese brand has a license to use their name. Philips latest products were made in the 2000s anbilight tvs and sacd players
@@tacofortgens3471 The "REAL" Philips is solely making medical instruments since decades now. Philips was a joint venture between Germany and Netherlands. In North America, their brand name was Magnavox. After a few awesome innovations like the CD together with Sony, the compact cassette they had innovations and burned money for failed products like the DCC (digital compact cassette).
@@cortessarge5399 Check the voltages, reseat ribbon cables, theck if the mechanism is stuck and if so clean and relube it. Clean the lens using Isopropanol / Isopropyl 99% and try different type of disks.
Dave, I really enjoy your videos! I used to have a similar model, a Philips obviously, I used it heavily for 14 years straight. They weren’t that bad, now I’ve a Pioneer DV 310, I’d love to see you working on one of those one day! Have a nice one
I can only work on what i get my hands on.
I owe you a debt of gratitude and then some! I have a Toshiba DVD which had been acting up in a similar way. The drive looks suspiciously similar (with only the one screw, etc). Your vid gave me the kick in the head to check what you did - to re-seat the laser ribbon. Darn if it didn't fix the issue the same way! Many thanks! -Paul
Update: The problem started coming back - about 1/2-way through a video, it would stutter and hang.
Here's another good lesson about this issue...
1) Inspected the ribbon cable closely and found a kink in it which had separated the layers, at least one or two deep, causing one or more of the traces to open.
2) tried applying a little (pin-tip) of conductive paint into the gap. You know, the stuff that supposedly "fixes" remotes. I figured this would either temporarily demonstrate it could work, or it would fail completely due to creating an internal short.
3) Result: It failed, and I suspect the experiment caused an internal short between traces in the ribbon.
4) Actually found a similar ribbon cable on-line and the player now works perfectly!
Lesson: Ribbon cables do fail internally if a manufacturer routes them so that they encounter undue stress, such as for head-movement in CD or DVD players.
😊
That's an interesting video about these players, and how you luckily found a solution. There's so few now to check or fix it's generally cheaper to replace them from the beginning. Most of these DVD or Blue ray players kind look very similar, most are now brand licenced products but made in the same global chinese factory with a common engineering and economical design. So your video can give some excellent hints to curious people or anyone still trying to fix things!
Many had similar issues with some of these flat ribbon connectors you can have everywhere now. I remember back in the 80's, when found the fragile first in a japanese car player and later in a TV remote (from Philips!). These are now ubiquitous in many systems, from your laptop to your washing machine, and most a nightmare to replace or repair when problematic.
None of this crap is worth repairing these days. I do these videos to help those that want to try to repair their own equipment. They certainly are not worth repairing commercially. That's why i left the repair business over 20 years ago.
What's the fix for the Lens not moving laterally across the disc? All other functions are good to go. MJ. In B'dos.
That depends on why it's not moving across the disk. Could be stuck mechanically or it could be an electrical fault.
Love your rain dvd video,i thought about making a Christmas tree video and displaying on one of my tvs so i don't need to put a tree up in living room.
nice little player
When it works.
Hi I have a Sony dvd recorder, there’s a little blue led that’s lit up and won’t power on, no display. Any idea what it could be? Model rdr gx255
MPEG2 was a very limited codec. It had bi-directional prediction, but only on two frames one after another. IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB was the GOP structure. I = Key frame, each half a second on NTSC so 15 frames in one GOP. It's basically almost just MJPEG, many many key frames. And the key frames were litterally just a JPEG. The others had limited motion prediction, pixel prediction and filtering. Can't expect much compression from that with such a footage without sacrificing image quality. The maximum bitrate on DVD was AFAIK 9.3 MBit/s, including audio and overhead.
Variable bit rate. Bursts up to 12mbits.
I have a Philips dvd player dvp5980 and it has hdmi port, when i use it to watch dvd it starts playing and then the whole system freezes (and the picture+sound) I can't even turn it off either from remote or the button on the player, but when i use the composite ports its working fine, is there anything that I can do?
On some units ive taken some sharp scissors and cut a tiny bit off the end of the ribbon.
Dents with black corrosian are troublesome.
Yup that will do it.
How can i go about sending you a Toshiba DVR660 that needs the tape loading mechanism fixed? I asked before and you said reach out in an email, but i got no response when i asked where to find that email.
It's under the about tab on the main page.
Where do I get that small a screw driver?
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That "spinup" didn't look right when it failed to play. Spindle motor may have a bad spot or may have some other mechanical interference. If it stops working again, give it a little kick start with your finger as the laser is trying to focus. Sometimes you can get those going temporarily if it's not too bad. Replaced a few bad spindle motors back in the day when CD and DVD players were worth fixing (or rather their owners were willing to pay to have them fixed). Doubt the quality has improved much since.
There was no light from the laser. I could see the lens rising but no red light from the lens, so the laser was not working initially.
If anything, the quality has gone down even further.
@@joshhoman cheap cheap
Yes sir, that is the order of the day.@@12voltvids
Dave, can't believe Philps would go that cheap in their construction. Nice video though.
Yes they got cheap but the pickup says Sony on it.
Its not Philips anymore, a Chinese brand has a license to use their name.
Philips latest products were made in the 2000s anbilight tvs and sacd players
@@12voltvidsphilips hasnt lade products for 20 years, its a chinese company that licenses the philips brand name. Nothing philips about it.
@@tacofortgens3471 The "REAL" Philips is solely making medical instruments since decades now. Philips was a joint venture between Germany and Netherlands. In North America, their brand name was Magnavox. After a few awesome innovations like the CD together with Sony, the compact cassette they had innovations and burned money for failed products like the DCC (digital compact cassette).
Pioneer pd 106 won’t play sir wont spin laser had light what is the problem sir? Thank you
Broken
@@12voltvids no need to change the lens? How to trouble shoot ?
@@cortessarge5399 Check the voltages, reseat ribbon cables, theck if the mechanism is stuck and if so clean and relube it. Clean the lens using Isopropanol / Isopropyl 99% and try different type of disks.
@@kyoudaiken thank you very much sir for helping me to trouble shoot my cd player because i dont have CD player 🙏
damn, I have been struggling with that CD/DVD players like decades ago, cheap crap from china with exactly same electronics inside.
Not just China. Japan turned out their share of cheap crap too.