I tried the lens cleaning way to no avail. This video is great. I did not know about the potentiometers in dvd players. I adjusted mine so hopefully that was all I needed.
Good vid, thanks! I have a number of CD and DVD players that all died with "no disk" error after working for a year or two. I'll try screwing with them this way. I did bring one (TV unit) back to life a few years back by washing the lens with the q-tip just like you suggest in your vid. Gave it a few more months' life! Frying the laser is not a concern as they're dead anyway. At least you'll learn something, like taking them apart. Again, thanks for a great vid.
Thanks for the help in getting my cd player to work. All I needed was to clean the laser with the (Q) tip you suggested. Was all about to buy another boombox but instead I'll use the money to buy more cd's. Rock on!!!
Good information, but Instead of talking about how to measure & adjust the potentiometers, why didn’t you actuallyshow is how to do that? I couldn’t visualize exactly what you meant-I wish you had shown us that whole process. You could have been doing it while taking about it. Would have been much more helpful to me. .
Hey man, just watched your vid. Just wish you could of showed where you put the leads on the adjuster. But still a big help. That's the beauty of RUclips. Anything we need to know is on here. Gonna give it a try. Thanx for the help bro. Like you said .. Nothing to lose :) Cheer's..
by hard, (T.V. DVD Player) YOU mean a lot more disassembly require. CD player will work fine. How many people play CD's on a T.V. but DVD, A LOT! So that laser got a lot of used. So would odd would you give, that adjust the the laser, will make it work. Thanks, just thinking out load. But I really like the fact that you took the time to make a video and up load it onto youtube. Thank You!!@
okay, can you please tell me, how long a laser should last, Please understand, I just wondering if the company this MFG. these products put in the cheapest laser, to keep the product cost low the customer . I must say, though I do like the fact that you take time to make these videos and shows use something that we can do, to extent the life out of the DVD player. How cool is that.
+Robert Mattison thanks. it depends on the use. if your playing 5 movies a day. it may only last a year or two with most dvd players. just depends on how much u use it. a laser will burn out eventually. doesn't really matter about the manufacture much. in my opinion.
I have a SONY Portable CD/DVD Player DVP-FX820. The color doesn't work. It only show in black and white. And it doesn't seem to keep a charge. Suggestions?
I have two dvd players. 1 that doesn't do anythibg a mintek that shows the green light when I plug it in but nothing happens after. Disc doesn't spin. Monitor is black and no sound. The other dvd player is a audiovox that plays the dvd I hear sound but the sceen is black and kibda grayish.
I had that exact same dvd player 11 years ago when they were still popular and it stopped working so I bought another one and used the old one as a slave unit. good times
The best thing to use folks, is Perfect Duster, which is the same compressed air in a can that you use to clean your keyboard on your computer..I tried the alcohol, Qtip deal, and it didnt work..sprayed lens once with Duster, read CD instantly. Can find this stuff at Office Max, Staples...
I have a Coby dvd portable Player and when I put the disc to play; on the top right side of the screen appears words that say wrong disc; that I know for sure it's not right; because I had been playing some of these discs before with no problems at all. Can you please help me in how to solve this.?
hello there I have a cd player that I had for 11 years and I opened it up and where the inside top of the cd player it is black where you place the batteries is there anyway I can get it to read the cd discs again?
motor is bad. you might be able to take apart the motor and oil the shaft with a bit of sewing machine oil to get it to spin again. put the cd in. does the cd spin freely or with a bit of resistance?
Had a Spectronik portable DVD bought in 2007, forgotten in the locker for 13 years Just unpacked to day ,but always read wrong disc. Open the disc receptacle and I could see there some Velcro tape over the Len and been melted. After spending a whole day try to figure out why it doesn't play, I could tell the lens doesn't appear to be lit, so garbage. These craps with generic name were really crap. Anybody has an idea about.. Thank you.
Hello. I have a DVD with the reader and it has a pair of screens. The problem is that the reader plays sound without picture. Even when I turn it on, the DVD logo does not appear on the screens. I tried connecting the reader to the TV via the AV input, nothing sound without picture. Are there any solutions to fix the malfunction. Thank you
mine is brand new out the box and refuses to acknowledge ANY source, disk, DVD, cd, nada?????? I followed mfg instructions step by step .......it starts spinning spins for a couple mon3nts then stops and says no disc......???????
Yes i did follow your instructions and cleaned it using your method in the video but still no luck. When it says "open" the lazer thing moves a bit but bumps into the spinner
Better to use denatured alcohol (available at your local hardware store). "Denatured" means pure. Ordinary isopropyl alcohol from your drug store is not pure, it has a large amount of water in it, which means it'll take much longer to evaporate than the denatured variety. It might also have impurities in it, depending on what other things you've used it for. Denatured alcohol is always your best bet for cleaning sensitive electronics and optics.
that's normally the problem. cds don't require much to read unlike dvds require much more power to read. so either cleaning or adjusting the resistance will fix it. or a new laser would be amazing if you could actually get the new parts.
Better to use denatured alcohol (available at your local hardware store). "Denatured" means pure. Ordinary isopropyl alcohol from your drug store is not pure, it has a large amount of water in it, which means it'll take much longer to evaporate than the denatured variety. It might also have impurities in it, depending on what other things you've used it for. Denatured alcohol is always your best bet for cleaning sensitive electronics and optics.
He doesn't show you what "points" he's talking about nor how to adjust them. Extremely vague and nebulous video. 2 thumbs down!!!! Colossal waste of 7½ minutes!!!!👎👎
Thank you for this video. Very helpful. Solved my problems. No money wasted. Life just got easier. Thanks again.
I tried the lens cleaning way to no avail. This video is great. I did not know about the potentiometers in dvd players. I adjusted mine so hopefully that was all I needed.
Thank you,Ameen. My DVD had no sound but your tip was amazing, just the touch of a cotton bud,thank you. Mehrunnisa .👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Good vid, thanks! I have a number of CD and DVD players that all died with "no disk" error after working for a year or two. I'll try screwing with them this way. I did bring one (TV unit) back to life a few years back by washing the lens with the q-tip just like you suggest in your vid. Gave it a few more months' life! Frying the laser is not a concern as they're dead anyway. At least you'll learn something, like taking them apart. Again, thanks for a great vid.
awesome. don't forget to like and subscribe.
This was in 2017✋😀
Thank you, when I used the rubbing alcohol it actually worked.
Thanks for the help in getting my cd player to work. All I needed was to clean the laser with the (Q) tip you suggested.
Was all about to buy another boombox but instead I'll use the money to buy more cd's.
Rock on!!!
Thank you so much. By cleaning alcohol and cotton, it actually worked.
Good information, but Instead of talking about how to measure & adjust the potentiometers, why didn’t you actuallyshow is how to do that? I couldn’t visualize exactly what you meant-I wish you had shown us that whole process. You could have been doing it while taking about it. Would have been much more helpful to me. .
Great video, but I didn't really see where you touched the dvd pot contacts with the multimetre contactors, to read them off.
Thank you thank you thank you for this video!! We fixed ours in no time!!!
Went off the video, came back, pressed play and "Like I said"
Best person.
Wow! you just saved me at least $200 up to $1,000 to replace my DVD recorder. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing ! Hope it works for my cd player...good video. Very helpful.
Nicholas cage is narrating this video?
lol
... I was thinking the same thing.
Lmao
Oh now I am imagining him saying it
Well, Cage hasn't made any recent blockbusters, and he is on the wrong side of 40... "Gotta Do Whatchu Gotta Do!"
Hey man, just watched your vid. Just wish you could of showed where you put the leads on the adjuster. But still a big help. That's the beauty of RUclips. Anything we need to know is on here. Gonna give it a try. Thanx for the help bro. Like you said .. Nothing to lose :) Cheer's..
Extremely helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for the video, all I need to do is remove things that come on the inside of the DVD player and I’m good
Good information on voltage measuring, thank you!
by hard, (T.V. DVD Player) YOU mean a lot more disassembly require. CD player will work fine. How many people play CD's on a T.V. but DVD, A LOT! So that laser got a lot of used. So would odd would you give, that adjust the the laser, will make it work. Thanks, just thinking out load. But I really like the fact that you took the time to make a video and up load it onto youtube. Thank You!!@
+Robert Mattison it should work with most lasers. if its too far gone then it will need a new one.
okay, can you please tell me, how long a laser should last, Please understand, I just wondering if the company this MFG. these products put in the cheapest laser, to keep the product cost low the customer .
I must say, though I do like the fact that you take time to make these videos and shows use something that we can do, to extent the life out of the DVD player. How cool is that.
+Robert Mattison thanks. it depends on the use. if your playing 5 movies a day. it may only last a year or two with most dvd players. just depends on how much u use it. a laser will burn out eventually. doesn't really matter about the manufacture much. in my opinion.
it would have been nice to show us where to touch the multimeter contacts to the pots
I have a vcr dvd combo and I cleaned the laser with alcohol prep pad and still won't leave loading
Thank you I was ready to throw away my DVD player using the qtip was all it needed
this is why youtube rocks! thanks man - i just brought 2 DVD players and one boombox back
hey glad it helped.
I have a v.zon portable DVD player I tried the rubbing alcohol but it didn't work
it does sound like nick cage
I have a SONY Portable CD/DVD Player DVP-FX820. The color doesn't work. It only show in black and white. And it doesn't seem to keep a charge. Suggestions?
I have two dvd players. 1 that doesn't do anythibg a mintek that shows the green light when I plug it in but nothing happens after. Disc doesn't spin. Monitor is black and no sound.
The other dvd player is a audiovox that plays the dvd I hear sound but the sceen is black and kibda grayish.
I had that exact same dvd player 11 years ago when they were still popular and it stopped working so I bought another one and used the old one as a slave unit. good times
don't even have the same DVD portable player and still work
What do you mean during the multimeter section when you say "put it down to 6"?
+piethouse if its at 7 ohms. then turn it down to 6.8ohms. then try.. if it doesn't work then go down to 6.6ohms. go in .2 increments.
@@bam6972 6k-ohms...
I wish you had a more detailed vid, my rca will play a cd but not a dvd. It worked fine until I flipped it upside down while a dvd was playing.
The best thing to use folks, is Perfect Duster, which is the same compressed air in a can that you use to clean your keyboard on your computer..I tried the alcohol, Qtip deal, and it didnt work..sprayed lens once with Duster, read CD instantly. Can find this stuff at Office Max, Staples...
What could be the problem when there is no sound from one channel?the receiver and speakers are ok.Thank you
Thanks for the perfect duster info. Never heard of it till now. Will give it a try if this fails .. :-)
anyone know why it only shows the CD's in Blk & White? having that issue with mine.
my DVD plays but won't come on screen
good video, helped out.
I have a Coby dvd portable Player and when I put the disc to play; on the top right side of the screen appears words that say wrong disc; that I know for sure it's not right; because I had been playing some of these discs before with no problems at all. Can you please help me in how to solve this.?
My portable DVD player search DVD video but it doesn’t work
Thanx
hello there I have a cd player that I had for 11 years and I opened it up and where the inside top of the cd player it is black where you place the batteries is there anyway I can get it to read the cd discs again?
+moviestar241 try cleaning the tip of the laser very gently with a q tip and alcohol.
thank you and I will try this.....
motor is bad. you might be able to take apart the motor and oil the shaft with a bit of sewing machine oil to get it to spin again. put the cd in. does the cd spin freely or with a bit of resistance?
it could be a bad motor.
thank you, mr president.
lol i kept getting reminded of that limewire ad that kept saying bill clinton didn't have sex.
Thank you! It worked!
im trying to built me a mini ipad portable dvd player, all in one.so that way I can log online
Had a Spectronik portable DVD bought in 2007, forgotten in the locker for 13 years Just unpacked to day ,but always read wrong disc. Open the disc receptacle and I could see there some Velcro tape over the Len and been melted. After spending a whole day try to figure out why it doesn't play, I could tell the lens doesn't appear to be lit, so garbage. These craps with generic name were really crap. Anybody has an idea about.. Thank you.
sounds like chris griffin from family guy
no it is obviously Nicholas cage
Maybe J Mascis?
Half drunk guy
Yup. It could be Jay himself but then again Gearmandude sounds exactly like Jack Black but it ain't him though.
Ive tested my new DVD player with other movies and it works fine. Its just this one movie that wont work
Hello. I have a DVD with the reader and it has a pair of screens. The problem is that the reader plays sound without picture. Even when I turn it on, the DVD logo does not appear on the screens. I tried connecting the reader to the TV via the AV input, nothing sound without picture. Are there any solutions to fix the malfunction. Thank you
What does the yellow sticker mean?
Thanks!
5 years later I found one in my room
mine is brand new out the box and refuses to acknowledge ANY source, disk, DVD, cd, nada?????? I followed mfg instructions step by step .......it starts spinning spins for a couple mon3nts then stops and says no disc......???????
take it back and get a exchange unit since you just bought it.
zzzzz zzzzzz
mine is a slot loading DVD player.
its the Dc adapter i was using the wrong one. i found a car adapter and sure enough it started up. All these years and its still working..
Awesome 👍
Our Emerson VHS / DVD player shows a "grainy" picture when playing DVD's. Would this fix our problem?
no. try reseating the video cables.
Thanks It really works 5*
Good video. Fingers crossed....
You have code for hack region for sylvania sdvd1187? Thanks
I have an evd portable dvd player but it keeps saying "open" at the main screen and wont read dvds or read my usb thumbdrive. Anyone have any ideas ?
clean the laser
Yes i did follow your instructions and cleaned it using your method in the video but still no luck. When it says "open" the lazer thing moves a bit but bumps into the spinner
yea the laser is too weak to read a dvd. try puting a cd in and see if it will play music.
still the same thing happens. Do you think the lazer is busted ?
yea the laser is done for
is alcohol the only thing you can use to clean it?
yes. only use 90% isopropyl alcohol. or 70% is fine too
Better to use denatured alcohol (available at your local hardware store). "Denatured" means pure. Ordinary isopropyl alcohol from your drug store is not pure, it has a large amount of water in it, which means it'll take much longer to evaporate than the denatured variety. It might also have impurities in it, depending on what other things you've used it for. Denatured alcohol is always your best bet for cleaning sensitive electronics and optics.
Or acetone - your lady's nail varnish remover :-)
the resistance of a dvd rom drive IS 10 volts
Voltage and resistance are not the same thing.
So, was that a yo-yo I saw lurking in the background there, on your desk?
Maby?
How would I go about fixing laser decay 45% in my Plextor Blu ray drive?
replace the laser if parts are available or decrease the resistance to the laser like I show in this video.
bam6972 Okay. What's crazy is that it reads cd's and even the Windows 7 Disk just fine, but not dvd's, pc games, etc. Thank you.
that's normally the problem. cds don't require much to read unlike dvds require much more power to read. so either cleaning or adjusting the resistance will fix it. or a new laser would be amazing if you could actually get the new parts.
bam6972 Thank you.
i have a poloroid portable too. my question it wont turn on even if i plug it in. tell me what to look for.
+Hilda Enzweiler the power connecter usually brakes away from the board inside. have to take it apart and resolder the connection.
THROW THAT 💩 AWAY
I have two portable cd players and both of them doesent work when I put the adaptor it works but when I don't it doesent even open
battery pack is shot it sounds like.
I have a DVD player but my children take out the circle part the holds the cd, how can I get the part?
I already cleaned it.
Put new drive in. Comes up with error no: TDERR035
The DVD has a different region code than your player, and accordingly cannot be played
Is there anything i can use besides rubbing alcohol
Better to use denatured alcohol (available at your local hardware store). "Denatured" means pure. Ordinary isopropyl alcohol from your drug store is not pure, it has a large amount of water in it, which means it'll take much longer to evaporate than the denatured variety. It might also have impurities in it, depending on what other things you've used it for. Denatured alcohol is always your best bet for cleaning sensitive electronics and optics.
90% isopropyl alcohol will do just fine. wont hurt a thing.
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Lol he didnt show if the player is working or not hahah
it was for demonstration
How about in a tv non working dvd
+Jackie Woodard same applies just a bit harder to get at.
Por why
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He doesn't show you what "points" he's talking about nor how to adjust them. Extremely vague and nebulous video. 2 thumbs down!!!! Colossal waste of 7½ minutes!!!!👎👎
I fix it without ur mob-o jumbo
What's mob-o jumbo?
@@martas1046 I'm thinking it must be a N'Orleans-based chunky soup-thing to eat as an appetizer w/your Muffaletta...
dvd reads cant read disc.