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12-21-2022, 10:48 AM | #1 |
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Blu-ray player dead?!?! :-0
Went to watch a movie last night, but the Blu-ray player was not cooperating. When I tried to open the tray to insert the disc, it made some noises but didn't open.
Took off the cover (4 Phillips screws) and tried again with the remote. I saw that it was trying, but something was not engaging. So I took off this top part (2 screws, see pic) and tried again. It opened and closed fine. Put part back on, making sure it engaged with the part underneath. Tried again, now it worked fine. Closed it back up and watched movie. The front of the cover is held in place by the front piece, so I only reinstalled the two rear cover screws.
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12-21-2022, 10:55 AM | #2 |
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Awesome! lol Victory! So the smack with the hammer didn't work?
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12-21-2022, 11:24 AM | #3 |
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Couldn't find the 3-lb hammer. Had to fall back on the intelligent way.
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12-21-2022, 11:34 AM | #4 |
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I have a built-in DVD on my TV. It didn't work last weekend either and i haven't had a chance to see what's wrong with it. It kept ejecting the DVD on it's own. Lucky we had a stand alone DVD player in the bedroom to use.
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12-21-2022, 11:37 AM | #5 |
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I never buy combo TV/drive units like that. It's always the DVD/Blu-ray/VHS component that breaks first, and they are much more difficult to access.
A basic Blu-ray player is about $60 at Walmart. Slightly more if you want one that does streaming. In the past, to my shame, if one broke I just went and bought another one, which lasted for a few years. IDK why it never occurred to me before to just open it up and see what's what. I'm guessing there's some plastic cog in there that is designed to wear out about five minutes after the warranty period ends.
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12-21-2022, 11:42 AM | #6 |
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I usually don't either. This was one for my daughter's bedroom. My Big TV in my living room got hit a few months back by lightening so we were just using it until we got a new one. I have one coming for Christmas.
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12-21-2022, 12:03 PM | #7 |
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Congrats on fixing that thing!
During the days when i worked at electronics service center (i owned one for some time, and later worked at another as a hired technician), one of the things that i still remember with pure sense of hate was fixing that goddamn PlayStation 4 DVD (or was it bluray?) drive. Customer's little kid punched some business & bank cards into that thing. If you ever disassembled standard PC CD/DVD ROM, you know that it's a relatively simple device, with ejecting mechanism based on two rails. Laptop drives are even simpler, although more fragile. PS4 engineers wanted rail-less system (like they use in car sound systems), so, for an eject mechanism they created a monstrosity of more than a dozen small plastic parts and few springs - when assembled, the whole thing looks like a white chicken skeleton. All parts must be assembled in strict order, and they are under spring's tension, so if you make a mistake, whole thing goes off like a grenade, and 'chicken bones' fly all over the room. Photos from service manual were of little help, so i spend few hours trying to get job done
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12-21-2022, 12:19 PM | #8 |
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In the (distant) past, I've had jobs building, upgrading and repairing desktop PCs. We're talking about back in the Windows 95 days. Technology has greatly improved since then, but it's all the same principles. Basically I just open things up, look around until the logic of the design reveals itself to me, and then go to work.
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12-21-2022, 12:40 PM | #11 |
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Great fix! I've had little to no luck repairing this kind of stuff. Usually a broken plastic piece or something cooked.
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12-21-2022, 07:59 PM | #12 |
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My first computer was Commodore 20. Then my wife got an IBM clone with 5 1/4" dual floppies with no hard drive. She finished college with that pos, before windows. It was DOS, and you had to first load dos, then the program you were using. That was prior to Word Perfect.
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12-21-2022, 08:47 PM | #13 |
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Dang I thought I was old.....
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12-21-2022, 09:15 PM | #14 |
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Welcome to China Riders. The young ones usually end up buying a Japanese bike and leave. ;-)
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nothing compares to the POS my first computer was. DOS? I dreamed of DOS! I RAN POS! Ha ha ha. disk drives. Lucky guys. let me tell you what I started off with. I had a Sinclair a ZX 81. Membrane keyboard. pressing the buttons was like when you press the buttons on a microwave. You plugged into your TV. When you turned it off all the BASIC programming you did was gone. HA HA HA. You would spend an entire day programming something in BASIC And leave it on at night so that your program wouldn’t be gone from turning it off. And you would pray that nobody came by and decided to unplug it or that the power went out because I lived in a rural area. eventually I got a tape drive for it that used cassette tapes to record the Screechie modem sound onto the cassette so you could reload the program later. yes, I was about seven years old when I started programming. here’s a picture. Super powerful!! Satisfied your lust for power! 1K RAM- Commodore 64 had 64x as much RAM. 3.5MHz , 8 bit processor. Raw power! Two 3.5 mm jacks connect the ZX81 to the EAR (output) and MIC (input) sockets of an audio cassette recorder, enabling data to be saved or loaded. This stores each data bit as a number of pulses followed by an inter-bit silence of 1300 µs. Each pulse is a 150 µs 'high' then a 150 µs 'low'. A '0' bit consists of four pulses while a '1' bit is nine pulses, so the baud rate varies between 400 bit/s for all '0's and 250 bit/s for all '1's. A file with equal amounts of '0's and '1's would be stored at 307 bit/s (38 bytes/sec).[5] This provides a somewhat temperamental storage medium for the machine, which has no built-in storage capabilities. after this lovely machine, I got a commodore Vic 20, then a Commodore 64, then I started using school computers after that. Very old Macintosh. And some really cool stuff in the lab. I had a Sun SPARCstation in the NASA lab. That was some major power for back in those days. Plus you felt like a god as the admin of an instance of UNIX. Also, the monitor pictured above? That would have been a dream! I ran it off of my 12 inch zenith black and white TV.
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