Tuesday 26 July 2011

July 26th - Harry Potter and a Broken Alba DVD Player :/

Went to the cinema today to see the newest Harry Potter, I have not read the book which is probably a good thing, had I read the book I feel I may have not liked the film as much as I did, was rather enjoyable to say the least.

Got in and my mum gave me her portable DVD player to look at, it is fairly old, an Alba, no idea what model or whatnot as it does not say, here's a pic.


Right, so it wouldn't even turn on, I took it apart gave it a dust, made sure shit was connected an voila it worked, well it booted at least :/

Put a DVD in to test it and it says "loading" and just spins forever getting faster and faster, it sounds like it is going to take off, I had a little fiddle and then tried a normal audio CD, it played it fine, I had a look on the interwebs but there is fook all help on there, apart from one dude who said my lens could be scratched or dirty, I cleaned it with a cotton bud and it doesn't look damaged at all yet no DVD's will play and audio CD's will.

If any of you nerds out there have any idea let me know,

Cheers.

14 comments:

  1. Hmmm no idea man, that sucks. It shouldnt be that expensive to replace it. Buy your mom a new one, be a good son :)

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  2. Waranty voided? Open it and or let it overheat once!

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  3. most likely broken dude, unless you can figure something out youre definitely going to have to get a new one

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  4. I personally can't buy shit :/

    Bank is maxxed at -1400 and creditcard is also maxxed, oops. I'll take it apart again tomorrow and have a fiddle.

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  5. Hmm, thats kinda strange that cds play but dvds wont. Sorry though I have no idea about these things, I guess you should just try looking around the forums if you really want to fix it.

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  6. That is weird.. wish I could help. :/

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  7. I agree you might not have enjoyed the movie too much had you read the book, but sorry can't help with the DVD Player.

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  8. Dang, buy another one and then sell bootleg DVDs to pay for it?

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  9. That is a very strange problem. :/

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  10. Maybe its a Region code thing?

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  11. Negative, I tried a bunch of Different regions. it doesn't say "no disc" or "can't read" it says "loading" yet spins forever.

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  12. I've had things like this before with my PS2 not reading newer games :(. Sucks and sorry but I don't know a fix

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  13. Definitely the lazer I would say hit it with a hammer, usually fixes most things, safe.

    Mario say's 'hi'!

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  14. From the stuff I've read it is the lazer, and sometimes it's alignment, other times it is dirty but dvd's have a more strict standard for the angle of the laser.

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