CD player idicates all disks "bad"

Mechanicly everything seems to work - but any CD or DVD (even directly from Blockbusters) had a "Bad Disk" error after being inserted. I cleaned the lens of the DVD drive, but no help. Any suggestions to fix or to get a new DVD drive for this unit would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Peter Silversmith May 19, 2007

I did open the unit and clean the lens - but as I said, this did not help. I'd appreciate any other thoughts, or a source to get a replacement dvd player component, which I could simply swap out. Thank you.
mrshah Nov 10, 2008

Yes, I have the same problem. How did your problem got solved ?

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U can manually clean the lens using cotton buds to wipe the lens.but the problem is u need to uncover the tv set.and the player itself inside the tv.u need some assitance from prof. serviceman. hope this help u...

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