I've got Philips DVP5982 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000N254LU/prokhorenkous-20 one, pretty basic model which is only one year or a year and half old, but knows how to play DivX files, has a USB port on it and works fine.
More then that, player was good enough for that little money that I paid for it. It can even be 'soft' unlocked, mean, made region-free through the set of commands from remote.
- Power Up the unit with NO Disc in the tray.
- Open the tray (The tray must stay open during the whole exercise)
- Press the SETUP Button on the remote control
- Navigate to the PREFERENCES page using the Right Arrow Key
- Press the DOWN ARROW one time to select
- Press the 1 button on your remote control
- Press the 3 button on your remote control
- Press the 8 button on your remote control
- Press the 9 button on your remote control
- Press the 3 button on your remote control
- Press the 1 button on your remote control
- The current Region Code Setting will display
- Use the UP/DOWN Arrow Keys to select the region required or '0' for All Regions
- Press the PLAY Button on the remote control
Oops. Did I say it 'works'? I mean it 'worked' fine until now.
Somehow it stopped seeing the disc in it. So whenever I'm putting a disc into the tray, it tries to load it, cracks for several times, and says NO DISC. It can take you dozen of times to load & unload it before it works. Or you can moderately (sometimes not) hit the player while it loads the disc and sometimes it works. However, I do understand that hitting player might be a wrong tactic, but at least gives me a feeling that I'm fixing it. :)
I even took an extra step, opened it up, run the disc, and was trying to figure out what's going wrong. Guess what, I'm not a DVD player fix guy. I can't really get what's wrong there. :)
I saw several comments online about the same problem, people tried cleaning discs and whatever not, but nothing helps. However, I still would like know what actually makes it behave in such way and is there any fix possible?
