Wow!! Holy Expo's Batman - Scuzzy drives came out in 1986 - the year I graduated - NEETO !!

I've got the very same unit and although it usually works ok (dvd and blueray) it turns itself on every 10 minutes ! The only thing that I can think of is that somewhere in the room, there's a remote that's jammed into something and constantly telling it to power on ! I also bought a bdp-S1, which I believe was the first to go on sale, but it does almost nothing when 'switched-on' so it's one for my imaginary Sony museum !

whoa @06:50 i didn't see you turn it off at the mains so my bottom was clenched while you touched near the mains input😱 i remember years ago grabing hold of a satelite receiver board and screaming at the pain of the mains capacitor which was still energised with 300 volts (yes i had unplugged it ) @25:26 i also recall the price i paid for a lg blu ray rw drive £400 501.06 United States Dollars for my pc, and being naive at the time i kept acting on the prompts to update the drives bios only for it to brick it (of-cause after the warranty ran out )🤬

I'm at the part where it won't read stamped DVDs and don't know anything more yet, obviously because I have not seen more. I am thinking maybe it is a region encoding prohibition - I am wondering if BR plays ok. If that does, then high possibility the region on the player needs to be changed or hacked. heh Cool video so far!

I am guessing the fans in these things don't spin full time? I have been watching various videos where people take Sony Blu Ray players apart because I thought maybe mine had a dead fan or something. But I haven't noticed the fan spinning in any videos I have seen. Does it only spin if it overheats or something? Edit - I just noticed you mentioned the fan at the end. I'd still be interested to know if you ever actually confirmed the conditions under which the fan spins?

I have the same model of Blu-Ray player. It's slow to read discs and doesn't accept every disc, but the nice part is, it works with a CRT TV set thanks to the component out. Odd how your unit will play burned discs, mine won't.

It could still be due to capacitors. On the DVP-CX777ES changers, each laser has its own automatic power control circuit with electrolytic caps in it. I've repaired some of these where it seemed the laser was bad but once I replaced the electrolytic caps in the power control section for each laser (infrared and red in this case) the player worked again. If you're able to find a schematic in the service manual, you can see how the power control is set up.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Will keep that in mind for the other one I have as this one is long gone.

@CRTdrone

10 ай бұрын

Since the drive has a standard 5V GND 12V PC molex power plug the capacitors would have to be inside the drive.

Aahh... in my very limited experience I am feeling less alone. It's always like that... it's not the laser that fails but the pick-up photo diode, and some irrecoverable servo error that you'll never be able to isolate. Mechanism appears quite meh(diocre)... I expected far more from Sony of that vintage, it seems a direct DVD SATA drive transplant.

I guess because of all of the extra components, and the size, it must have produced more heat. None of my Blu Ray players had a cooling fan. But, my Magnavox VHS/DVD recorder from 2007 does.

where would one find a replacement laser? what actually gets replaced? i would very much like to see the replacement process.

@dougharlow6037

4 ай бұрын

Good question. I've purchased 2 laser lens assy 1 on eBay and 1 on Amazon, both wrong did not work. I would like to know of a great source for a replacement laser lens assy. Thanks

In my experience the early Sony BDPs either lose DVD or BD playback eventually a laser goes. Theyre nicely built just started skimping on stuff.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

True

I noticed a blob of epoxy stuck over some of the pins of the flash chip on the main video processor board. I guess to try and stop people hacking it, and ripping off the secret BD decryption keys.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

It didn't stop them.

Nice fix on the power supply, now at least it works as a blu ray player. My only blu ray players are still the Playstation 3 and Xbox One S, so far no problems. PS3 is from 2009, and Xbox is ten years newer.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

I'll burn a firmware update disk and see if that makes any difference. Not expecting miracles but one never knows.

@mrjsv4935

Жыл бұрын

@Catalin Neudorfer Mine is the PS3 Slim model with 120gb hard drive. Still works like a charm indeed, just yesterday watched Bluray movie using it :) Only the battery has died and haven't bothered to replace it as it gets correct time and date online.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@Catalin Neudorfer my PS3 is the original 60gig that will play PS1 PS2 and PS3 games.

So can some of these be fixed by replacing the drivr I have wn old one I put away maybe I should take a look it even came with an oem sony flash drive

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

The bdrom drive would have special firmware on it. There was a DVD player years ago by apex. It had a standard dvdrom and a reqular computer drive could be installed. Only problem was after drive replacement it would only play non encrypted disks burned on my computer or Panasonic recorded. Any store bought disks would not play due to the firmware not communicating with main board for region and decrypt info. Why? Because on a PC the DVD player is software driven.

@stpworld

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I have one thats acting up i dont remember the issue i really liked the player and its lighted remote i'll have to fire it up again adn see what was wrong I know some newer movies they prevent playback on companent video and only HDMI to.

@voltare2amstereo

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids if you play a disc while connected to pc, windows will offer to set the region on the drive (done on the properties menu for the drive

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@voltare2amstereo yes I did set the region but that made no difference. The player could detect that it didn't have correct firmware.

shame it could not work right.

Why not adjust the red laser output to fix it?

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

And just how to do that? No adjustments on this unit all set by firmware which i haven't done yet as that is on the agenda for today

@DGTelevsionNetwork

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Is it even possible to go into the device firmware? I've tried to myself and it's stuck into some sort of automatic mode where it gives wild readings on one of the lasers.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@DGTelevsionNetwork No it is updated via a bootloader on a CD.

The 3.3V seems a little low at 3.0V

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Well that is the video processor voltage not the drive. It has 5 and 12

as a user i would never care to repair a dvd-blue ray player, the cd wherever i put it will play even a computer, but the videocassette? no more worth an old vcr to me than a dvd player

BY THE way folks looking direct into a laser with irreversibly destroy your retina

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

The laser is only focused on the disk reflective layer. The beam spreads out like a flashlight as you move away so by the time you are 25cm away it is no longer a concentrated beam. All the service manuals warn about observing closer than 25 cm (1 foot) looking at the fiber optic feeding your ont is the same. There is a laser at the other end of that too. So observe from a distance and don't use optical instruments to view and you are fine. Lasers if focused on your retna will cause damage. I know someone that has a few blind spots from playing with lasers. Not the weak ones in cd players but a high power argon laser. He caught a reflection and bam instant blind spot.

Is there anyway to a firmware update

@markrowe8824

Жыл бұрын

you do realise how old this player is, Sony are not great at supporting "old" equipment, still use my old Sony Blu-ray player which has only ever got one firmware update since purchasing it.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Would need a firmware disk. Good luck.

@markrowe8824

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids had a "high end" Pioneer Bluray player that had to update the firmware via disc, what a pain in the ar*e that was, download file from website, burn to a blank disc, then go through a 15 wait while player loads it into memory and praying it worked and didn't brick the player, thankfully only had to do it a few times before the next range came out and they added a network port.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@markrowe8824 I'm going to look and see if there is a firmware update for this beast before I toss it just to make sure that the firmware didn't go bad and fux the DVD playback.

Looks like ide drive

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Yes once unplugged noted ide. Scsi pins are smaller.

Assuming it has 1 pot per Lazer, tweaking it about 20deg clockwise can't hurt. I fixed dozens of xbox360 dvd drives like that back in the day. The lasers just got weak. No point worrying about not having the test kit as per service manual.. what are you going to do, break it?

Well you gave it a good go, shame one laser is kaput :-( If its anything like the ide drives, if you try to replace the drive with a generic p.c drive, it rejects it because its not the exact type. I got away with swapping a drive from one unit to another and it worked, a rare thing. I still have a combo unit with dvd and vcr, but i dont watch tv, i dont have one. The t.v licensing company keep nagging me for a licence. The b.b.c is not the company they used to be.

I think people get their drivers licenses from a Cracker Jack box

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

If you are referring to that car that cut me off, the end of lane warning sign was pretty much totally obscured, and he was supposed to yield to me as i was in the through lane. He did get the horn and a few choice words. When merging you either speed up to get ahead or slow down and fall in behind not just cut over. Not like he couldn't see me, i was in a big 4x4.

@jcurnutte2007

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids there are idiots who would try to cut in front of a city bus

I have an old Sony DVD player that has a strong burning smell when I use it, so I'm going to throw it away!!!!!

I never liked disc, They were Netflix is easier

@markrowe8824

Жыл бұрын

at least with discs I own them forever. 🙄🙄

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Netflix have to pay every month. Stop paying and can't watch. Same with all the music streaming platforms. My kids wonder why they never have money. Between cell phones and all the streaming / subscriptions they have my cable bill is pretty tame.

What part of the disc spinning backwards didn't give you the idea the red BD laser is fuhked, because I saw it spin backwards which is a dead giveaway that I can't read this disc as I've seen it well in triple digits, laser do actually fail I don't know how many you've replaced but back in the day I did again many hundreds but I won't include the faulty crap lasers from Sharp I had 1 unit in boomeranged every 6-8 weeks from new with a fuhked laser 12mths warranty & 18mths I'm still putting lasers in it cuz Sharp admitted they had a large batch of fuhked lasers so finally 2yrs after purchase he finally gotit back to use & I have seen this sorts of problems in all formats of disc's. Have you ever replaced a Pioneer laser where you need their azimuth alignment disc & the CD has to mounted in the unit to set it up? I did 2 & refused any more because they were totally uneconomical to repair the laser cost from momery around AU$268 in 1998 + hours to setup.