Panasonic DMR-E50 DVD Recorder "cd stops playing half player" Questions

...half, there is a message "ERROR" and the DVD stop. When I play an audio CD , sometimes a message "ERROR 57:04 " appears and the CD stop. yes sir, starting to malfunction and needs replacement now. ...

stops. I use quite good media, Imation, TDK, Maxell to no avail. Any Ideas ?? Anyone As mentioned on the Jan12 e-mailed Panasonic - surprise, no response! However on Panasonic's web site drill down to

...cd's and previously recorded ones. You have a dirty laser lens! There are two different ways to solve this problem on this unit...( and yes, I do own this unit and have cleaned it both ways)! First ...

cd but not a dvd movie it is a rca dr247n Here is what I did and it has worked ever since. I'm not a DVD tech, but I'm a career printer technician so I understand electro-mechanical devices. Symptom:

...playing disks. I assumed it was a dirty laser lens so I bought a lens cleaner set. Unfortunately my player wouldn't play the cleaner disk. So I took it apart and cleaned the laser lens manually with ...

...half way through My dvd R120 gets about 1/2 way into any DVD and then begins to freeze up eventually just stopping completely. The only way to fix the problem is to eject the disc! This seems to ...