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Before you totally give up on your favorite recorder or player try this step before chucking it in the closet forever. Symptoms: All of a sudden it stopped recording and or playing my disc's for no apparent reason. Is it broken? Not necessarily. These types of units are optical readers and writers. If the lens, which both reads and writes to becomes excessively dirty then it will exhibit read and write problems with most recordable media from cheap ones as well as supposedly high quality media. I have 2 DVD recorders that I restored back to full functionality simply by partially disassembling the drives and physically cleaning the lens with a simple Q-tip doused with windex. Then to make cleaning them a lot easier later on I remove most of the screws and then simply pop off the 2 main covers 1 for the main housing and 1 for the 1 that covers the drive itself.
My suggestion would be to only do this on units out of warranty as in warranty units should be returned for repair/replacement, but units out of warranty would make no difference as in my opinion are not worth the money to fix as newer models are cheaper to buy anyways.
My 2 cleaned units are a Liteon 5005 and a Magnavox 10D. Both have been upgraded with firmware, but that itself didn't stop the read and write problems as they were related to dirty laser lenses, and not outdated firmware. Cleaning the lenses various from manufacturer to etc, but generally speaking the cleaning procedure is basically unplugging the unit, removing the main nit cover, then removing the secondary cover that exposes the lens in the drive, cleaning the lens with a Q-tip doused with windex use 1 end wet and then dry the lens with the other tip. Use a soft circular motion to clean and dry the lens then examine the lens closely and repeat if needed. Hope this hint helps get a few more supposedly dead DVD units back into operation again. BNG
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