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Help! My Bluray player has forgotten how to play Blurays! |
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Help! My Bluray player has forgotten how to play Blurays!
I have a Sharp BD-HP21H blu ray player, which has always been reliable. It had a few issues with some discs, but after a firmware update about 18 months ago has been fine with all my blu ray discs. It is running software version PN200400. On friday I put in a rental Bluray copy of "Transformers dark of the moon", and it rejected it, saying Invalid disc. Fine I thought, sometimes can be a bit temperamental, so I tried again. This time I got the Paramount logo, then the language select screen, at which point it completely locked up. Nothing would work, no response from the remote etc, so had to switch off the mains. Oh well I thought, must be one of those discs. So I took it out. Then I tried to play another Bluray (Star Wars) and it said that this was now an invalid disc! Have tried a few others, and it is the same! All my blu rays, which have always been fine, now will not play! Has this happened to anyone else? What can be done? I have tried a factory reset, which did not do anything, and it would seem that it can still play standard DVDs. Have had the player since about september 2009, bought it from asda.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Blu Ray lense has died.
I had the same with my Samsung player which the only option left available is to either get it repaired or buy a new player. At the time for me it worked out cheaper to buy a new player. |
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Doesn't look like you are running current firmware version, try an update first, if that don't work then I'd have to agree with GONZO in that the lens has died.
http://www.sharp-idncservice.com/Des...&From=SharpUSA That is latest update for your player. |
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double post
Last edited by stuartjk : 12-02-2012 at 09:25. Reason: double post |
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Cheers for that, had a feeling it might be something like that. Not good news.
Can anyone recommend a decent replacement player? (Preferably reasonably cheap, and one that will last longer than 3 years!!)
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Can anyone recommend a decent replacement player? (Preferably reasonably cheap, and one that will last longer than 3 years!!)
The problem you've also got is that nothing is built to last these days and trying to predict anything that will last longer than 3 years is a total lottery as any one of many components could fail at any time. |
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Cheers for that, had a feeling it might be something like that. Not good news.
Can anyone recommend a decent replacement player? (Preferably reasonably cheap, and one that will last longer than 3 years!!)Richer Sounds are selling this for £80, might be a little cheaper elsewhere. Richer Sounds Bluray prices start from £50. http://www.richersounds.com/products...arates/blu-ray |
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Before you do anything like shelling out a 100 quid + on a new player invest a few quid in a lens cleaning disk. A dirty laser can have all of those symptoms and is a lot easier and cheaper to put right.
Better still would be to take the lid off and clean the laser with a cotton bud lightly dampened with Isopropyl alcohol and finish off with a dry bud. But I can understand if that does not appeal. But if all it is is a bit of gunge on the lens you could get it back working again fairly easily. |
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Cheers for the replys guys. Will let you know how I get on!
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Can anyone recommend a decent replacement player? (Preferably reasonably cheap, and one that will last longer than 3 years!!)