Pacific DVD 1002 MK2 Problems

Please excuse my stupidity. I'll try posting to the right group in future.

Mike

It happens...

To try to help, you have purchased a bottom of the range DVD player from a supermarket. Please take it back for a refund and buy something from a reputable manufacturer, from somewhere that can give you pre-sales advice. That should solve the problem.

I did. It didn't. They are baffled, and the folks on uk.media.dvd appear baffled. Basically now we've had 4 dvd players 2 bottom end Pacifics, a mid-range and a Sanyo. They all do the same thing. It must be our telly! Strange thing is, it plays a couple of DVDs I've had for ages OK, and a couple of brand new ones. Others it just flickers.. weird, but anyway, thanks for the help and I'll try to post in the right group next time. FWIW I already have a pioneer DVD player I bought a year or so ago. It works fine. This one is just supposed to be a cheapy one ... long story, divorce etc...

Krs Mike

Perhaps you've filled it with diesel by mistake.

Nope, but after years of driving petrol cars I found myself stood next to my newly acquired TD Xantia yesterday, with green nozzle inserted just about to pull the trigger. Good job my brother noticed!

Mike

Sell it and buy a classic car, then your next posting may be relevant to the group

I was always of the (arrogant and overblown) opinion that you would need to be seriously stupid to do such a thing. Until I put £10 of "super diesel" in my SS1 instead of "super unleaded". In mitigation, the confusion came from "super" or whatever BP call it. :-)

I think that BP have done a U-turn and are refunding the draining costs of people who got caught out by the fact that both had a blue nozzle. Might be worth a google.

It may be a cheapo DVD player but generally they're pretty good - my kids have one each. Have you tried the de-regionalise hack? With remote, open tray, press 1, 3, 6, 9, 0, close tray.