Re: Panasonic DVD-S25 won't play DVD

From: Mark D. Zacharias (mzacharias_at_yis.us)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:49:58 -0500

"Rich" <rkoziol_no**s+pam@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:t5S8d.421718$8_6.380913@attbi_s04...
> Hi Mark,
>
> "Mark D. Zacharias" <mzacharias@yis.us> wrote in message
>
>> BULL***. I've been doing this professionally for many years and
> while
>> cleaning does often help with cd players, it's MUCH more rare for it
> to help
>> on DVD players. The pickups die like flies on dvd's, and that is
> likely the
>> OP's problem.
>
> If the pickup died, would that not keep any format from playing? In
> my case CD's do play fine.

Not at all. It's quite common to fail on DVD's and still play CD's. A shame
pickup parts prices are so high while replacement of entire units so low.
Makes go / no-go repair decisions problematical.

Mark Z.

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