DVD player problem

[ruffy_mike]

DVD players are all rubbish if you ask me. I've had numerous of them gone bad, cheap ones as well has (more-or-less) high end ones like Onkyo. It all starts with longer access times and ends up in a disc/read error and a shot dvd player. Cleaning CD's/DVD's were only little help.

I heard that you can somehow re-calibrate the lens, it can run out of focus or something like that over time. Have no clue, however, how that is done...

[FranzK]

Zitat von ruffy_mike

DVD players are all rubbish if you ask me. I've had numerous of them gone bad, cheap ones as well has (more-or-less) high end ones like Onkyo. It all starts with longer access times and ends up in a disc/read error and a shot dvd player. Cleaning CD's/DVD's were only little help.
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The players are OK, it's the drives that go bad. But in case of ONKYO, there's almost certainly a way to replace the broken drive and so to extend the life of the player for some years.

[ruffy_mike]

Zitat von FranzK

The players are OK, it's the drives that go bad. But in case of ONKYO, there's almost certainly a way to replace the broken drive and so to extend the life of the player for some years.

To be honest, I don't care whether it's the drive, some cracked cables or the hamsters which spin the disk are malfunctioning ... it's just annoying that these devices seem to have a very short life span