Love easy fixes like this one. I had a car stereo given to me that didn't work. When I took it out of the box, I heard something rolling around inside. One of the electro caps had fallen off the main board. I found the location of the cap on the board, & soldered a new one in place, along with some adhesive to hold it still. As far as I know, that radio cassette player still works.
I really enjoy these videos. The air show video was a nice touch for an ending. I'm just glad to see other folks that like to repair things like myself instead of going out and replacing things once it stops working. Like I tell the wife. I can't break it anymore than it's already broken. I can at least try to see what broke and repair it. Most of the times. The part that failed won't fail again once repaired properly.
Now that's a oldie but goodie for a DVD player .... That reminds me , I have to do some organizing in my spare bedroom and break out some old VCR and DVD players, give em a good once over and turn some cash my way ....
Nice job. I've got the Sony DVP-S325 model, it has R,G,B scart out and coaxial + digital optical audio out. It also comes with s-video and rca/composite video - right/left audio out. Never really use it, but must get it going one of these days. Nice unit.
I understood that the incompatibility of CD-R discs, was more due to the majority of early players having fixed current laser power supplies and laser gain, and therefore as the reflectivity of the dye-recorded media is less that that of a pressed red book disc, that it was hit and miss as to whether there was enough reflected light from the disc. Later machines had lasers that included an auto gain setup on the laser, to ensure that the correct level of reflectivity was presented to the quadrature sensor array on the pickup, or equivalent arrangement, this also explains the shorter life of some later lasers that drew higher current levels and therefore ran the laser brighter, especially when the optics got dusty or coated in tobacco smoke etc, I used to repair tons of CD players, love the things :) RAFOCS and triple beam, Philips and Sony etc, Lots of other issues too of course, dried grease, warped rafoc arms, fragile plastics and adhesives... many are repairable though and too many cd players were condemned for bas lasers when actually the lasers were fine :) Nice video Dave, glad you saved the lovely old Sony DVD player.
It's the first wave of DVD players, worth keeping and fixing, it doesn't get any better than this. It's got 3 single boards for such a simple unit, and a dust cover for the mechanism. They can't usually play CD-R and no idea about DVD+R as they weren't formalized by then. It can play DVD-R although not officially supported. More chances it could play RW content than -/+R. Remotes availability is scarce for these units. I've paid mine (remote) about 40 EUR. This one being a fairly basic unit I believe might have used a reduced version of the RMT-D111P that I've got. Unfortunately ONLY the original remotes have the SETUP button, the only way to access the startup screen customization and remove the monsters its former user had applied to the homescreen.
But the DVP-S330 wasn't the first wave. It was a third generation machine. The lowest end first generation production player from Sony was the DVP-S3000 while the highest end model of Sony's first generation was the DVP-S7000. And those could play CD-Rs as both of those models used the KHS180A dual lens, dual laser pickup. This same laser pickup would be used in the second generation DVP-S300 and DVP-S7700. The DVP-S330 and its fourth generation successors, the DVP-S350 and DVP-S360, used the KHM220AAA, which was a single lens, single red laser pickup.
@@Watcher3223 Well you might be right about generation but I am afraid... not about waves. Those models you mentioned, I don't recall them in catalogs, I have never seen them on sale. What I recall are these first wave of DVD Players which I believe to be the American counterpart of DVP-x25D series here in Europe. Those are units from 1999, the DVD format was introduced in 1998... so about first wave as you can get in popularity. Don't get me wrong it's not about definitions... it's about units worth keeping and fixing. Good luck finding anything before then at least here in EU. And those for all I know are reliable working horses... not sure about later generations with simplified internal layouts.
@@m80116 _"the DVD format was introduced in 1998"_ In Europe. DVD players were available as early as 1997 in North America, with one of the oldest DVD units I've ever owned being a Pioneer DVL-700 DVD/LD combo player that was made that year. DVD was available earlier than that in Japan.
Enjoy your repairs on various equipment, you have inspired me to adjust the laser power on my Technics CD SL-MC6 but I'm struggling to locate the small potentiometer, got any pointers?
I had the next model up, with the jog shuttle on the front panel, PAL model so it had RGB Scart out. Apart from better picture quality than newer, supposedly fancier models, over HDMI or component, it had FANTASTIC analog audio out, it was the best sounding CD player i ever had. Strangely enough is seemed to like burnt CDs (blue tinted Verbatim Super Azo) better than originals. Unfortunately, I bought it third hand, the CD laser was tired when I got it and died a a few years later. I looked into replacing the pickup, but as the part was shared with a audiophile SACD player the prices were astronomical. DVD wise it played almost anything i seem to recall, only no name generic Taiwan Dual Layers made it struggle, but those are trouble with pretty much anything that doesn't use a repurposed computer drive mechanism.
That was a funny one with single laser DVD pickups, where you couldn't read CD-Rs but you could read CD-RWs. Never owned the DVP-S330, but I did own a DVP-S360. It was my second DVD player, which I traded up to from a Toshiba SD-1200. The Sony was more responsive than the Toshiba, and the Sony's remote was better. But the Toshiba had a sharper picture with anamorphic downconversion compared to the Sony. Of course, in fairness, I never did watch anamorphic DVDs with the 4:3 downconversion on; I used my TV's 16x9 mode to get the best possible picture. But, in retrospect, I should have gotten the Panasonic DVD-RV30. That machine was decently responsive and had a superior MPEG2 decoder compared to the Sony and the Toshiba. For one thing, it didn't have problems with chroma upsampling error. And I believe that model was much improved, reliability-wise, compared to the DVD-A110 and DVD-A120. My goodness, I remember the DVD-A110 and just how often the pickups on those dropped like flies. Panasonic had to extend the warranty coverage to address the huge number of complaints on that model. And I also recall that the DVD-A100, which preceded the DVD-A110, wasn't any better. One time in 2001, I was given a DVD-A110 for parts because it stopped reading discs. I took a chance with Panasonic customer care and they graciously took it in and replaced the optical pickup free of charge. It still worked when I eventually got rid of it, too. Of course, a good quality modern Blu-Ray Disc player has decoding and picture processing for DVD-Video that blows those old dinosaurs out of the water. About the only vintage DVD players I really want are the Technics DVD-A10, because it matches with the Technics SA-DA10 or SA-DA20 receivers, and the Sony DVP-S7000 and DVP-S7700 because the motorized drop-down front panel those models had is cool.
Well done dave, i imagine it was a solder drum just waiting to crackup. One bump and it's dodgy time :-D Did you find out why your fluke was playing silly buggers?
The operating instructions for this model (DVP-S330) has a copyright date of 1999. Also this model can also read CD Text. I'm wondering what the first model was that Sony released back in 1997. I assume that player was better?
They had a very high end dual laser player and it was the biggest pain in the ass machine ever. Many, many poor made DVDs it refused to play out of the box. It was something like 1400.00 too.
Not necessarily a case of it being "so old" in lacking Component Video and CD-R. Sony's first DVD player from 1997, the DVP-S7000, had Component and CD-R playback. They just got cheap with subsequent models so the average joe could afford them.
The dvps7000 was not a good player. Sony put 2 lasers in it one for CD which could play cdr and a red laser for DVD. This was done because the red laser at the time had trouble playing stamped CD too. That player rejected many disks. I had a customer that had one and he was the biggest pain in the ass because it wouldnt play his stupid kiddy DVDs that he bought. Veggie tales is one that comes to mind. We changed the laser, motor pretty much everything still wouldn't accept those disks. Shipped it to Sony. Still bad. Sony have him a new one still wouldn't play. Sony blamed the disk as being bad yet every other cheap DVD player on the market would play it except the 7000 and 7700 with the dual pickup.
You're videos are Excellent and fascinating. Would you be able to repair a Sharp DX 150 cd player from 1988, which when a disc is loaded, the disc spins very slowly and stops so the player cannot go any further? The player is made in Japan, and runs on 240 volt AC in the UK.
If that's Chubby Checker then yes, you'd have gotten TKO'd by a strike if you had gone a few seconds longer with it. I believe he sued McDonald's years ago over the song; McDonald's hired a sound-alike artist to sing it for their new twisty fries commercials.
Let me guess so old that it it is actually NOT MADE IN CHINA but perhaps actually made in Japan a that would be impressive, and well worth your time to fix and get working.
I have a new fluke. Just found one for 15.00 from some idiot that didn't know what he had. It is literally brand new. I even got the unopened manual for it just no box. It popped on Facebook last week and I dropped what i was doing and flew out to pick it up. Before the guy figured out he was giving it away. It's a fluke 175 i think.
I got copyrighted claimed once on my own Guitar recording. I had thoughts about find the person who made the claim, but then I found it it was just googles algorithm. Can't smash a guitar on their table while eating Lunch then can you?
You can tell a dvd player is old when it contains the arrows and enter buttons on the faceplate.
Love easy fixes like this one. I had a car stereo given to me that didn't work. When I took it out of the box, I heard something rolling around inside. One of the electro caps had fallen off the main board. I found the location of the cap on the board, & soldered a new one in place, along with some adhesive to hold it still. As far as I know, that radio cassette player still works.
Great fix!
Thanks for the explanation of the differences between how each disk type is written / read.
I really enjoy these videos. The air show video was a nice touch for an ending. I'm just glad to see other folks that like to repair things like myself instead of going out and replacing things once it stops working. Like I tell the wife. I can't break it anymore than it's already broken. I can at least try to see what broke and repair it. Most of the times. The part that failed won't fail again once repaired properly.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Now that's a oldie but goodie for a DVD player .... That reminds me , I have to do some organizing in my spare bedroom and break out some old VCR and DVD players, give em a good once over and turn some cash my way ....
Nice job. I've got the Sony DVP-S325 model, it has R,G,B scart out and coaxial + digital optical audio out. It also comes with s-video and rca/composite video - right/left audio out. Never really use it, but must get it going one of these days. Nice unit.
I'm glad you fixed it Dave. The DVD player looks nice and is as you mentioned a good CD player.🙂
But it won't play cdr 😩
I've been ripping my CD'S on an external drive. Some of them have bit rot already
I understood that the incompatibility of CD-R discs, was more due to the majority of early players having fixed current laser power supplies and laser gain, and therefore as the reflectivity of the dye-recorded media is less that that of a pressed red book disc, that it was hit and miss as to whether there was enough reflected light from the disc. Later machines had lasers that included an auto gain setup on the laser, to ensure that the correct level of reflectivity was presented to the quadrature sensor array on the pickup, or equivalent arrangement, this also explains the shorter life of some later lasers that drew higher current levels and therefore ran the laser brighter, especially when the optics got dusty or coated in tobacco smoke etc, I used to repair tons of CD players, love the things :) RAFOCS and triple beam, Philips and Sony etc, Lots of other issues too of course, dried grease, warped rafoc arms, fragile plastics and adhesives... many are repairable though and too many cd players were condemned for bas lasers when actually the lasers were fine :) Nice video Dave, glad you saved the lovely old Sony DVD player.
CD-RW is much less reflective than CD-R however.
Another interesting and informative video. Good for future reference, thank you!
Thanks, 🤔🤔finally 25 years later, Mistery solved why some recordable disc dont play, but i still have a lot of disc and use them, usefull info.
Newer DVD players used a dual laser. Some used 2 pickups and others a dual laser into single lens. Blu-ray have 3 lasers. IR red and blue.
that was a quick fix keep going
That's a nice bonus! 😊
I'M very PROUD of your
It's the first wave of DVD players, worth keeping and fixing, it doesn't get any better than this. It's got 3 single boards for such a simple unit, and a dust cover for the mechanism. They can't usually play CD-R and no idea about DVD+R as they weren't formalized by then. It can play DVD-R although not officially supported. More chances it could play RW content than -/+R.
Remotes availability is scarce for these units. I've paid mine (remote) about 40 EUR. This one being a fairly basic unit I believe might have used a reduced version of the RMT-D111P that I've got. Unfortunately ONLY the original remotes have the SETUP button, the only way to access the startup screen customization and remove the monsters its former user had applied to the homescreen.
But the DVP-S330 wasn't the first wave. It was a third generation machine.
The lowest end first generation production player from Sony was the DVP-S3000 while the highest end model of Sony's first generation was the DVP-S7000. And those could play CD-Rs as both of those models used the KHS180A dual lens, dual laser pickup. This same laser pickup would be used in the second generation DVP-S300 and DVP-S7700.
The DVP-S330 and its fourth generation successors, the DVP-S350 and DVP-S360, used the KHM220AAA, which was a single lens, single red laser pickup.
@@Watcher3223 Well you might be right about generation but I am afraid... not about waves.
Those models you mentioned, I don't recall them in catalogs, I have never seen them on sale. What I recall are these first wave of DVD Players which I believe to be the American counterpart of DVP-x25D series here in Europe. Those are units from 1999, the DVD format was introduced in 1998... so about first wave as you can get in popularity.
Don't get me wrong it's not about definitions... it's about units worth keeping and fixing. Good luck finding anything before then at least here in EU. And those for all I know are reliable working horses... not sure about later generations with simplified internal layouts.
@@m80116 _"the DVD format was introduced in 1998"_
In Europe.
DVD players were available as early as 1997 in North America, with one of the oldest DVD units I've ever owned being a Pioneer DVL-700 DVD/LD combo player that was made that year.
DVD was available earlier than that in Japan.
Enjoy your repairs on various equipment, you have inspired me to adjust the laser power on my Technics CD SL-MC6 but I'm struggling to locate the small potentiometer, got any pointers?
Year 2000 my guess I remember seeing this machine when it came out
I think a little older as it has no component output just composite and s-video.
I had the next model up, with the jog shuttle on the front panel, PAL model so it had RGB Scart out.
Apart from better picture quality than newer, supposedly fancier models, over HDMI or component, it had FANTASTIC analog audio out, it was the best sounding CD player i ever had. Strangely enough is seemed to like burnt CDs (blue tinted Verbatim Super Azo) better than originals. Unfortunately, I bought it third hand, the CD laser was tired when I got it and died a a few years later. I looked into replacing the pickup, but as the part was shared with a audiophile SACD player the prices were astronomical.
DVD wise it played almost anything i seem to recall, only no name generic Taiwan Dual Layers made it struggle, but those are trouble with pretty much anything that doesn't use a repurposed computer drive mechanism.
I had a double tray Toshiba DVD player once .
Got good picture just old
That was a funny one with single laser DVD pickups, where you couldn't read CD-Rs but you could read CD-RWs.
Never owned the DVP-S330, but I did own a DVP-S360. It was my second DVD player, which I traded up to from a Toshiba SD-1200.
The Sony was more responsive than the Toshiba, and the Sony's remote was better. But the Toshiba had a sharper picture with anamorphic downconversion compared to the Sony. Of course, in fairness, I never did watch anamorphic DVDs with the 4:3 downconversion on; I used my TV's 16x9 mode to get the best possible picture.
But, in retrospect, I should have gotten the Panasonic DVD-RV30. That machine was decently responsive and had a superior MPEG2 decoder compared to the Sony and the Toshiba. For one thing, it didn't have problems with chroma upsampling error. And I believe that model was much improved, reliability-wise, compared to the DVD-A110 and DVD-A120.
My goodness, I remember the DVD-A110 and just how often the pickups on those dropped like flies. Panasonic had to extend the warranty coverage to address the huge number of complaints on that model. And I also recall that the DVD-A100, which preceded the DVD-A110, wasn't any better.
One time in 2001, I was given a DVD-A110 for parts because it stopped reading discs. I took a chance with Panasonic customer care and they graciously took it in and replaced the optical pickup free of charge. It still worked when I eventually got rid of it, too.
Of course, a good quality modern Blu-Ray Disc player has decoding and picture processing for DVD-Video that blows those old dinosaurs out of the water.
About the only vintage DVD players I really want are the Technics DVD-A10, because it matches with the Technics SA-DA10 or SA-DA20 receivers, and the Sony DVP-S7000 and DVP-S7700 because the motorized drop-down front panel those models had is cool.
Good fix
Down on the corner?(before the other song) Great job figuring it out!
A little luck on this one. It scared the shit out of me when it came on at full volume.
Yep, CCR
There could be a use by (or "best before") date on the minus terminal of the battery in a circle. Just a thought. ⚡
Classic DVD player. Worth fixing
They don't make em like this anymore.
Easy... it's got 3 single boards just to play some DVDs. Units that came afterwards were empty inside compared to these.
@@12voltvids _"They don't make em like this anymore."_
And that's for better as well as for worse.
Well done dave, i imagine it was a solder drum just waiting to crackup.
One bump and it's dodgy time :-D
Did you find out why your fluke was playing silly buggers?
It's a fluke it still works.
hello sir , thank you for your wonderful contribution to electronics and patience to teach new bees like me. Sir how can i email you?
I see what you did there. Nice
I probed it.
The operating instructions for this model (DVP-S330) has a copyright date of 1999. Also this model can also read CD Text. I'm wondering what the first model was that Sony released back in 1997. I assume that player was better?
They had a very high end dual laser player and it was the biggest pain in the ass machine ever. Many, many poor made DVDs it refused to play out of the box. It was something like 1400.00 too.
C'mon baby let's do the twist was the audio track right?
Not necessarily a case of it being "so old" in lacking Component Video and CD-R. Sony's first DVD player from 1997, the DVP-S7000, had Component and CD-R playback. They just got cheap with subsequent models so the average joe could afford them.
The dvps7000 was not a good player. Sony put 2 lasers in it one for CD which could play cdr and a red laser for DVD. This was done because the red laser at the time had trouble playing stamped CD too. That player rejected many disks. I had a customer that had one and he was the biggest pain in the ass because it wouldnt play his stupid kiddy DVDs that he bought. Veggie tales is one that comes to mind. We changed the laser, motor pretty much everything still wouldn't accept those disks. Shipped it to Sony. Still bad. Sony have him a new one still wouldn't play. Sony blamed the disk as being bad yet every other cheap DVD player on the market would play it except the 7000 and 7700 with the dual pickup.
You're videos are Excellent and fascinating. Would you be able to repair a Sharp DX 150 cd player from 1988, which when a disc is loaded, the disc spins very slowly and stops so the player cannot go any further? The player is made in Japan, and runs on 240 volt AC in the UK.
Probably not
Dave, that battery was probably made by Matsushita. The date code should be in the negative side if this is true. :)
Basically what I've mentioned; you said it better though!
@@plan7a I used to work for them. That's how I know.
Cool...
If that's Chubby Checker then yes, you'd have gotten TKO'd by a strike if you had gone a few seconds longer with it. I believe he sued McDonald's years ago over the song; McDonald's hired a sound-alike artist to sing it for their new twisty fries commercials.
No they would have just claimed the revenue and I would have clicked mute song and that would have been it.
Hi, can I send a unit to you for repair please?
there's a bunch of these cluttering up my local thrift stores, want one?
Great videos! So you ever work on subscriber machines? Is there an email address I could email you?
Let me guess so old that it it is actually NOT MADE IN CHINA but perhaps actually made in Japan a that would be impressive, and well worth your time to fix and get working.
Actiat it was not made in Japan. I believe that one was made in Malaysia.
Malaysia? Sounds about right. They have a long history of electronics manufacture.
dave you gona buy new fluke meter trust me
I have a new fluke. Just found one for 15.00 from some idiot that didn't know what he had. It is literally brand new. I even got the unopened manual for it just no box. It popped on Facebook last week and I dropped what i was doing and flew out to pick it up. Before the guy figured out he was giving it away. It's a fluke 175 i think.
I got copyrighted claimed once on my own Guitar recording. I had thoughts about find the person who made the claim, but then I found it it was just googles algorithm. Can't smash a guitar on their table while eating Lunch then can you?
I have had it on some images in parks and it was the BBC that made the claim once.
8:44 Since when does dvd players fart😂
Dave, I have a Sony reel to reel with tubes I would like to send you to repair. Can you send me your email please? Thank you, James.
I have a Sony r-r with tubes too. I might look at it next week.