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chosenfew777 · 17-04-2008

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Originally Posted by kirkham715

Help
I have had a slew of freeze up problemjs on various DVD players recently
Any ideas?
Most recently, my 1 year old $200 JVC player is freezing up about 2/3 though commercial brand new DVD's. It has happen on about 50% of the new DVD's I try. I cleaned the player with a DVD disk with brushes on it.
The player freezes up and does not respond to any buttons on the remote. I turn off the player, restart and the DVD freezes at the exact same spot again. I have put the DVD's through one of the spinning DVD/CD cleaners - no help
I run the DVD and select chapters, skipping earlier ones and it still will freeze at the same spot each time.
After reading many of your submissions, I still have not gotten a clue. One post says the laser sensor is probably failing. Is this common enough to be happening. I bought an inexpensive TV/DVD combo and after about 3 months it was doing this also. Cleaning did not help. The JVC I figured was a better quality, but now I am stuck with it also
Anything you can help me with would be appreciated. I kinda got a feeling I will have to buy another, but are there any options?
Thanks

My JVC DVD player started occasionally hanging up after it was 3+ yrs. old.
I tried a DVD cleaning disc with the brushes, & it helped a little, but ultimately, the occasional freeze-ups continued and started getting worse.
I unplugged the player from the wall socket, disconnected it from everything, carefully opened it up and manually cleaned the lenses (it had 2 side-by-side)
Use camera lense cleaner fluid-it's designed specifically for optics-because it's non-abrasive & it won't leave any residue. If your lense cleaner doesn't come with accompanying cleaning wipes, I use a SMOOTH, LINT-FREE cloth-like a soft piece of white t-shirt. I soaked a small section of the cloth with the cleaner (did not apply cleaner directly to lenses) and gently rubbed the lenses thoroughly. Then, I switched to a dry part of the cloth and gently, but thoroughly, buffed the lenses dry. Make sure you don't leave residue, or else you replace one residue film with another.
My player finally locked up, as stated above, completely. After cleaning the lenses with actual fluid, it has been working fine evey since. It is now 4+ yrs. old.
I hope this helps...