does anyone have any suggestions on what may be going on ? i have a Panasonic DVD 5 disc changer. it plays DVDs fine ,but after not using it with Cds for a long while ,i went to today and it would not read ANY CD i put in ,even ones it use to read.it is Model SC-ht700.has anyone ever heard of this problem or experienced something similar ?thank you.
i eventually get a message that says player can not read this format ,but it is just a regular store bought CD, no CD will play on it ,BUT DVDs will.if it read nothing i could understand it ,but why it won't recognize CDs it use to play has me puzzled.
First of all, the CD needs to be clean, which you probably know. Second, the lens for the laser needs to be clean, which is obvious to users of portable CDs. Third, the laser needs to actually work, and needs to track correctly. You may want to open it up and see if you need to dust off the laser assembly; if it had been sitting, perhaps it got dusty? One of my DVD players, an older one, has a seperate laser for DVDs and CDs - they use different wavelengths. Are there two assemblies inside? Now if you look at a variety of portable CDs, you will see that they all use about three or four laser assemblies - the thing that slides along, attached with a ribbon cable. Even my car stereo used the same assembly as one of my portables. Some home stereo CD players even use the same assemblies as portables - even expensive ones. If you have a separate CD assembly inside, you may be able to swap it out. This is a good reason not to throw out old CD players too quickly. Generally, it is not the laser assembly that goes bad. Heck, you might find a matching assembly on a portable at a garage sale for 25 cents. But if you try ordering an assembly, it will probably cost you $25, and up. But start with the obvious. Another theoretical possibility is corrosion on a cable or switch left unused, though I don't know of this happening. The bottom line: I have left some old CD portables in the drawer and when I try to use them years later they are dead. This happens all the time with old SLR cameras. Corrosion, especially when you leave the batteries in.
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