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Ketchuplover
| Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 5:54 pm
Has anybody here had a disc that freezes up? How did you thaw it? Thank you.
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Jed245
| Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 7:55 pm
microwave
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Jed245
| Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 7:58 pm
hehe sorry :o) Umm Kl what brand of DVD player do you have? Is it only a freeze up? Or does it give an error? There is a small screw on all DVD drives that you can adjust that will change the gain of your laser eye. Ya need an Ohmmetter for that and you want to change your reading Ok wait a sec. Ya might want to try the DVD in another player. If your having problems with more then one DVD then ya might need to clean your DVD's laser eye or adjust the gain as I was about to describe earlier. It's likely that its only dirty if there are several DVD's giving you the problem. If it's only one DVD and it freezes up alot or at the same point everytime ya might want to exchange it for another copy. :o)
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Brenda1966
| Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 8:04 am
I think I have a great DVD player, but I still get "Freeze ups" on some of the rental disks. Hmmm... maybe they need to be cleaned before use? Anyway, if it's just a rental that you're only going to watch once, I usualy try to skip past it to the next chapter, and then "rewind" to right after the problem (timewise). Other times when I've had a lot of freezes, I've turned the whole DVD player off and then just skip to where I left off. I finally figured out how to use the "time" feature on my player to skip to a specific time and it's a great thing to know. Good luck.
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Ketchuplover
| Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 3:57 pm
My player brand is Nikkai. I got it for an xmas present. I've had freeze problems & starting problems from the beginning. I've got the rental I'm having problems with in my player now. I tried going to a spot after the freeze but it won't play where I want it to waaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaa
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Brenda1966
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 8:05 am
I've never heard of Nikkai -- is it one of those super cheap ones? I've often wondered if they'd have problems. I have a Toshiba. Do they have a website and customer service? That just stinks.
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Crazydog
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 9:00 am
I'm not so sure if it's a problem with the DVD player or the disk. Sometimes the disk is scratched or dirty and you will get those freezing/skipping problems. But it could be that something with your DVD player is out of whack. I gave my brother a DVD player for Christmas, he brought it on the plane from Chicago back to his home in L.A. and it didn't work. The "eye" thingy that reads the disks is very sensitive, and if it gets out of line (too much jostling / lack of pressurized air in the cargo bin?) it is not happy. He solved his problem by returning the DVD player and getting a new one, but I am not sure if that is an option for you.
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Curiouscat
| Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 5:13 pm
Ketchuplover, I had that problem. My Sony player started freezing up more and more, even with new DVDs. Luckily I had bought the extended warranty and brought it in to be fixed. My receipt says the part replaced was a pick up ass'y <--- abbreviation of some sort and cost $108. Part, labour, cleaning, testing, blah blah blah total was $225. When my warranty finally runs out next year and it cops out again as machines always seem to do right after the warranty period is over, I'll not waste money on repairs and just buy a new one with the $$$ instead.
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Jagger
| Friday, September 26, 2003 - 10:51 am
Curiouscat I had the same problem with my Sony, it started out just every now and than and it finally got to the point it was freezing more than viewing. I also had the extended warranty, they looked at it and said it wasn't worth fixing so they gave me a new DVD player. The new player has more features than the old one, which they no longer make.
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Curiouscat
| Friday, September 26, 2003 - 5:56 pm
Jagger, I was really hoping they'd just hand me a new one It took them four weeks to fix! Most of that time was waiting for the dumb part to come in. Maybe by the time I have to buy a new DVD player, the recordable ones will be affordable [fingers crossed.]
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