Does not read any discs

Exact same problem---"no disc found", DVD tray opens and shuts continuously trying to read dvd's. Bought from Circuit City--they ****--watched 15 movies in 6 months and the BS began. Called LG----HAHA---they gave me the service center address-----LG BLOWS

Off to WALMART or TARGET to buy a new one.........

Just started having the same problem and found this site off of Google search. Doesnt look very encouraging. Did anyone get anything to work for the 'not reading any discs' problem? The VHS side still works just fine. Other than that its one step from the trash can I guess? Thanks all,

Shawn

I have the same problem. Before my one year warranty ran out I sent it back to LG. They replaced the DVD for $70.00 and it worked fine for about another 6 months. I contacted them again and they said I only had a 90 day warranty. This product stinks and LG stinks! They do not stand by their product because they know it stinks as well. I purchased this from Best Buy and they should be ashamed of selling LG products as well. I will never buy an LG product again. People should be aware of the junk that LG is selling.

Have had the same problem. SOLUTION: Never Buy any products from LG ever again -- it worked a total of 9X and then crapped out. LG is off my list -- Panasonic is my Huckle-berry now.

After a year and little use, it won't recognize ANY cd or DVD. I tried a DVD/CD cleaning disc and it won't read it either so it won't spin.This thing really is a piece of junk. I paid aver $200 for it and would like to get my money back. Any chance, do you think, LG would do that? ....or even exchange for another one? With all the complaints, it's obviously a lemon.

Mine is about two years old with basically the same problem; the unit failed after about a year. It rarely reads any commericial DVDs. One day when I had a few hours to waste, I loaded and unloaded a commerical DVD several times, and it eventually read it. This made me think it was something with the alignment of the tray, or it was a dirty. However, more often, it will read a DVD burned on the unit. This makes me think there is something wrong with the onboard computer brain.

Has anyone started a class action lawsuit against LG to recover the cost of this inept machine?

reset, different area codes, the works. quick fix, throw the f*cking piece of sh!t in the ocean and buy a cheap one from the supermarket, LG can **** my hairy ballbag

LG RC199H, just over a year old, gradually had more and more problems reading DVDs until now: "Unknown disc, please check disc again".

I tried the solution of cleaning (with alchohol and q-tip) and re-greasing (with lithium grease) the rails but it didn't make any change. I also tried cleaning the lens with a Q-tip and alchohol, but still no change.

Before I gave up, I tried loading a retail DVD with the DVD-drive cover off so I could watch what was happening. After the tray pulled the disc in, I lightly pressed on the center of the disc to make sure it was locked in place, then it started spinning. The laser carage seemed to slide back and forth with ease and I could see the laser going in and out of focus at several places on the disc starting with where the TOC is (I could see this through the disc). Then it gave the same message: "Unknown disc, please check disc again", and spat the disc, still spinning, out over the top of the machine (since the cover was still off), which scratched it up pretty badly.

(it's ok, it was Black Christmas)

The machine will not play any DVD's with one exception - it will play a newly created DVD immediately after recording and finalizing a DVD from a VHS tape. The machine also makes a very annoying churning noice for a few minutes every time it is turned on.

This FRAUD crapped out on me late August,10 months with less than 20 dvd plays.By then it was labor cost.Rails ,LENS cleaned.NO change.
Is OEM only solution? $140.00.

RC199H about 1 yr old. Plays CD's fine..will not read any DVD's. Only been used about 20 times in the year. LG sucks. Did the reset thing several times, no luck. Next step is to open the thing up.

Never used for anything other than playing DVD movies - never really used any of the nice features this unit offered. Now the unit won't read any disc.
I even tried inputting new discs (DVD +R) and initialization won't even work so I can transfer some of my VCRs to DVD. Even tried to reinitialize the DVD RW furnished with the unit and it isn't recognized either.

i HAVE SAME PROBLEM. UNIT IS 1 YR 6 MO OLD AND HAS QUIT PLAYING DVD'S.

Player just stop reading DVD's. Unpluged and pluged back in. Reset to Factory settings. The player will either open and trying to read or will say no Disc in the system.

unknown disc errors---NO DVD WORKS

To any disk says, "Unrecognized disk..." No matter what I did (restarting, unplugging, etc) it wouldn't read disks.