Dvd won't read

Dec 17, 2008

-   Mine worked great for the awesome 90 day warranty period. Then it began to have trouble reading disks more and more often - even disks that it had just recorded. There is a reset button-sequence in the manual. That didn't help. Nor did cleaning.

Apparently Samsung made a huge blunder on this design. I may take to a service tech and have laser alignment checked, but to fix the problem, I bought a Panasonic!-   mr-diy

Dec 04, 2008

-   For a long time, frequent cleaning seemed to help this finicky player read disks. Recently, it didn't help any more. In fact, the DVD-VR330 wouldn't even read the cleaning disks.

I read somewhere else how to carefully open the case and clean the lens. Since I had plenty of other paperweights, I gave it a shot. It worked! ... for a while.

Now, it won't read anything again. I tried cleaning again -- both using disks and the careful, direct, manual way. No go.

On an unrelated DVD player issue (bad DVD karma this month!), I learned that Panasonic players have a 3-button reset (like Alt-Ctl-Del, but it's [|<<] + [||] + [>] for 4 seconds).

Any idea if there's such a thing for Samsung players? Or should I just relegate this player to being a monitor stand? I guess it still plays VHS tapes....

Thanks in advance for any help.
-   JimIvey