My only reliable DVD playing apparatus that has two SCART sockets, suitable for attaching to my very ancient TV at the end of a chain of other AV apparatuseses, has now become extremely pigheaded about which discs it will and won't play, to the extent that something I played two weeks ago is no longer acceptable, something I played two years ago is similarly persona non grata, and discs it has never seen before usually don't play yet some of them do. My overall conclusion is that it's screwed.
Opening it up and replacing the drive is the first option that springs to mind (assuming I can find a drive with the appropriate interfaces). However, a bit if digging leads me to believe that this might be just as expensive as buying a new but dirt cheap DVD player, although that would leave my SCART chaining arrangement in disarray.
Has anybody had any joy replacing the DVD drive in a consumer unit? I'm going to keep it anyway, as it's a dual DVD-VHS thingy, and I still have some VHS tapes that I need to copy over to DVD once I get the (entirely separate) DVD recorder working again, probably by taking that apart too
Opening it up and replacing the drive is the first option that springs to mind (assuming I can find a drive with the appropriate interfaces). However, a bit if digging leads me to believe that this might be just as expensive as buying a new but dirt cheap DVD player, although that would leave my SCART chaining arrangement in disarray.
Has anybody had any joy replacing the DVD drive in a consumer unit? I'm going to keep it anyway, as it's a dual DVD-VHS thingy, and I still have some VHS tapes that I need to copy over to DVD once I get the (entirely separate) DVD recorder working again, probably by taking that apart too
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