WARNING:TO AVOID ELECTRICAL SHOCK, KEEP YOUR HANDS AND TOOLS OFF THE LARGE CIRCUIT BOARD UNDER THE VIDEO CASSETTE DRIVE.THIS IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS IN THE VICINITY OF THE FUSE AND WHERE THE POWER CORD IS PLUGGED. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK OR REFER THE RECORDER TO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PERSON.
I know that it is years after the above problem was posted.However, I am having the same problem and I found two things to pass on.First, to force the unit to eject, I power the recorder down and wait until I see the time or bars where the time should be.Using the "EJECT BUTTON ONLY", power the unit up and when you see "SONY DVD" displayed, press the EJECT button and wait a while.Mine ejects every time following this procedure.
Second, the reason for my "won't play" and "won't eject" problem is that the DVD spin motor sometimes stops after about a second.With the cover removed from the recorder, force-spin the white plastic disc that holds the DVD to the motor clockwise until it stays spinning. The unit will run, plays a DVD and ejects when it is asked to do so.I am still trying to find out why the motor stops and will post my finding here when I know.I suspect that the motor is at fault but will not order one until I am absolutely sure.
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More than likely the dvd tray tracks are misaligned. The way I would fix this problem would be to take the unit apart and carefully examine the tray gears.
Most of them are essentially the same and you won't need a manual or anything to figure it out, just patience and common sense.
Sony does have service manuals for just about every product they've ever made, but access to them is limited to Sony employees / techs.
There are a few places online that sell copies of these manuals but like I said earlier, patience and common sense are going to be the quintessential tools for fixing this problem.
It's not under warranty still right?
Get back to me if you get stuck or have more questions. You can also upload pictures and videos if you want to give me a closer look at the problem.
--RescueTechLA
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I don't think tracks are involved. This is the first time anything like this happened. It happened on a CD with photos written on a PC drive. It was not my disc. I remember that the disc appeared to be writable on both sides. I thought that the problem was an imbalance of spinning which caused the CD to jump off and become misaligned with the drive mechanism. All I need to know is how to manually eject the disc.
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