Panasonic A-110 problem. Help needed!
Michael Provenzano
problem with it. But around last week, every single dvd I own( around 45
) won't work. When I put a movie in the machine, I get 1 of 3 respones.
1- The dvd player says that there's "No disc" in the player.2- The movie
will play for about 30 seconds and just stop and will not start again.
Or 3- The player says "This type of disc can not be played". Even though
all these disc played fine before. Does anyone have any idea whats wrong
with my Dvd player? Has anyone had these problems before? And, Does
anyone know what causes the player t act like this? Could it have been
something I've done? Please email if you can help. Thanks for your time.
Thanks, Mike
wolfman6
and always with those same discs. The weird thing is that I had 3 that had
a problem - all were discs with both widescreen and P&S versions of the
movies - and it only happened with the P&S sides. Austin Powers gave me the
"NO DISC", or "This type of disc cannot be played" messages. I thought it
was a bad disc and sent it back to Columbia House. A second copy did the
exact same thing - and again, only on the P&S side. I figured they got a
bad batch, so I returned it and got a different movie. Then I bought Austin
Powers at Sam's Club and it works fine on both sides. Blazing Saddles
breaks up into blocks and freezes both during the opening WB logos and the
actual film logos and about one minute into the film, then plays fine.
Eraser does the same thing, but it takes 2 - 3 minutes into the film to play
ok. I figured that these were bad pressings or something and since I prefer
the widescreen side anyway, didn't worry about it anymore.
Then I got the free DTS demo disc the other day and get the "NO DISC" and
"This type of disc cannot be played" messages. I started getting suspicious
that there is something wrong with my player, so I took the disc to Best Buy
and asked them to try it for me. They tried on their A310 and it played
fine. When I got home, I tried all of my discs (about 40), including both
sides if it had both WS & P&S, or if it contained additional material on the
second side, or the two I have that are flippers. Everything seemed to work
fine - all the discs could be read on all sides, they didn't break up or
freeze, and I could access the menus, special features, etc. with the
exception of Blazing Saddles and Eraser on the P&S sides as mentioned above,
and of course the demo disc.
I called Panasonic and the technical support person said that the laser is
probably out of alignment. It's in the hands of UPS right now on it's way
to a factory authorized service center in PA for repair.
You might want to get yours in and have it checked out. You said 3 months,
though. If it's over 90 days and you didn't buy the extended warranty, you
will have to pay labor charges. Mine was at 88 days when I contacted
Panasonic, so I should get it covered under warranty. I didn't buy the
extended warranty either. I have had 3 laserdisc players in 17 years (the
first was an early Magnavox model that had problems playing warped discs,
but that was the technology at that point, not a failure of the player,
which I later upgraded to a Pioneer when they solved this problem, then in
1991, I bought one with digital play and double-sided play features) and
none have ever been repaired. I figured that since the technology is
similar, and similar to CD players, that I shouldn't have trouble with it.
WRONG!
All I can say is that they had better fix this problem, whether it's an
alignment problem, or whatever. I bought the A310 for the built in DD
decoder and DTS output and paid more for it. I paid too much to have
problems with it.
By the way, I called 800.com, where I had purchased it from, to ask if they
were aware of problems with this model. The guy said he'd heard of a lot of
problems with the A110, but none with the A310. I guess I got the lemon on
that one!
Good luck!
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LionO4576
A-110 for three months as well.Haven't had any problems with it yet,hopefully
because I always unplug the player when i'm not using it.But I did have this
same problem with my Panasonic A-300,it just started not playing certain disc
like MGM tiltles and showed major artifacts on some other company discs. The
Panasonic A -300 just went nuts on me after 7 months of owning the player!
LionO4576
SonySddS1
Do people recommend unplugging the player when its not in use? I have it
plugged into a surge protector right now. I have no problems as of yet. It's a
Panasonic A110.
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LionO4576
keeps it acting right for other DVD movies...i know it sounds weird but
sometimes when I have a problems playing certain movies, I unplug the system
and then replug it in 5 mins and it plays flawlessly.I dunno if the DVD player
reboots itself or what,but i just do this figuring it keeps the player in top
shape to play any DVD.(Heck,it proberly doesn't make any difference,but I do it
and I haven't had any problems yet....)
LionO4576
SoundStage!
You may want to get ahold of your receipt and take that player back to
the store. That is an *odd* occurence and something that I don't
consider normal!
Doug Schneider
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Mike
Rob Bailey
> By the way, I called 800.com, where I had purchased it from, to ask if they
> were aware of problems with this model. The guy said he'd heard of a lot of
> problems with the A110, but none with the A310. I guess I got the lemon on
> that one!
The guts of the A310 and A110 are the same. The only time that you won't
have problems with one or the other is when you're referring to the DD
decoder in the A310. The three problems that I have on my A110 are also
present on my friends A310...
Rob