Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Fix for the "no disc" problem
Apart from not being able to play DVD's after a few months, this player is great. I'd give it five stars if I could've gotten some info other than \\"send us money and we'll send you another player\\" from the manufacturer. Philips customer service being no help, I looked around until I found this on another forum, and it worked great for me: <br /> <br />chrish434 <br />Date Posted: May/21/2005 5:59 PM <br /> <br />I realize this may belong more in the deal discussion, but I decided to put it here because I know more people read this forum. And for those having the \\"No Disc\\" error, this may be considered a hot deal for them. After owning this DVD player for about four months, I started getting the \\"No Disc\\" error and it would not read any desks. It would play CDs, but no DVDs. Because it was past the 90 day warranty and it was going to cost $40 to get a replacement from Philips, I decided against repairing the unit. After searching on the Internet, I found a lot of other people were having the same problem. On one of the Yahoo forums, someone mentioned they opened their unit up and could wiggle the black, red and white wires that are to the right of the drive and get their unit to play. I opened the case on mine and wiggled the wires and noticed the part (not sure what it does....guessing it's the laser assembly) behind the disc would move in and out under the disc as I wiggled the wires. As I was wiggling the wires, they came unplugged from underneath the drive. Since I was not pulling on the wires when I was wiggling them, I suspected that the plug-in under the drive was loose from the factory. I removed the four screws holding the drive in place and was able to reach underneath and plug them back in. I put everything back together, and I have not had the problem since. I have tested it with probably 20 DVDs and all of them read where before all of them were giving the \\"No Disc\\" error. I have no idea if this is the problem with all of the units giving the error but Iam guessing mine is not the only one so hopefully this info will help some of you.