DVD Player has stopped playing modern discs
 

Until a couple of days ago, my home cinema Pioneer DVD player worked
fine. Yesterday, it suddenly refused to play "modern" DVDs. I'm not
sure how to define "modern", but old discs (more than a couple of
years old) generally continue to play successfully. The player doesn't
recognize that newer discs are even there (gives a "No Disc" error
message on loading).

The same discs do play successfully on both my PC and my Sony PS2, so
the discs themselves aren't faulty.

Presumably, some component has failed in the DVD player, but can anyone
think what it might be? Something to do with reading dual-layers
possibly? I could understand it if it failed to read ANY disc, but to
read some and not others seems very strange indeed.

DVD Player has stopped playing modern discs
 

"Phil" wrote in message
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Until a couple of days ago, my home cinema Pioneer DVD player worked
fine. Yesterday, it suddenly refused to play "modern" DVDs. I'm not
sure how to define "modern", but old discs (more than a couple of
years old) generally continue to play successfully. The player doesn't
recognize that newer discs are even there (gives a "No Disc" error
message on loading).

The same discs do play successfully on both my PC and my Sony PS2, so
the discs themselves aren't faulty.

Presumably, some component has failed in the DVD player, but can anyone
think what it might be? Something to do with reading dual-layers
possibly? I could understand it if it failed to read ANY disc, but to
read some and not others seems very strange indeed.


How old is your Pioneer? I had to replace my old Panasonic because of this
same thing..but no biggie because it was old.

DVD Player has stopped playing modern discs
 

I guess it's about 2 years old, but only just. The thing is, it's
played these discs perfectly until yesterday.