Posted by Quanta on 09/23/06 10:57

"Abe" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:he2ah2deedgkef791egce0n9nu7nmo2sjl@4ax.com...
>>> 1) Once the Disk tray closes with the DVD in it - the Display flashes
>>> "Closed"
>>> 2) The Display then flashes "Loading"
>>> 3) Then on the display it looks like: 0 0 0.00
>>> 4) Above the first 0 on the left the display says "title" - Above the
>>> 2nd 0 displays CHP - and the next 3 (0.00) has no display dicator.
>>> 5) - Now the problem - The discs go into nicely - appears to load ok -
>>> but the "spinning mechanism" stopped working completely. It previously
>>> did work when the disks were making noises and probably not being
>>> inserted in correctly - but somehow when I corrected the open/close
>>> issue - I must have done something to cause the "spinning" to cease
>>> working.
>>>
>>> Any idea on what happened - and how I can fix this would be so helpful.
>>> I really don't want to buy another DVD player now - as I want to wait
>>> until the BlueRay/HD battle settles down and the HiDef Players come
>>> down in price.
>>My guess is that in the sequence of events, the laser has not been able to
>>track and read. Therefore the machine shuts down.
>>It is a gonner.
> Time for an authorized repair or a new dvd player
>

And for the repair, do it very quick. Pioneer is leaving the consumer DVD
set-top player business immediately.

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