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The Crow
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Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject:
Pioneer DVR-520 |
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Hi.
Firstly, appologies if it causes annoyance, but I've cross posted this in
the hope of catching a reply in my net.
I have a Pioneer DVR-520 DVD recorder. The other day, there was a power cut
whilst I was trying to finalise a disc. This may or may not be the cause of
the problem, but I mention it just in case it's relevant.
Anyway, for whatever reason, my recorder now won't deal with blank media.
If I put in a brand new DVD-R or RW, it just says 'unreadable or
incompatible disc', or something like that. Similarly, if I put any discs
that I have written and finalised in the past, into the player, it jut spits
them back out again. I know they are okay because they all play fine on the
other players in my house. The DVR-520 just rejects any DVD-R/RW I put in
it, whether new, blank, finalised, whatever.
It reads Audio CD's and commercial DVD's, such as my bought films etc. The
hard drive is also still working fine, I can record, edit and watch anything
I have on the hard drive.
However, whenever I try and burn a DVD, copy to DVD, backkup a DVD etc etc,
it just won't have it, spitting the thing straight back out, saying it can't
read it.
I just can't fathome what the problem might be, I don't know if there's an
error occured within the player, maybe something to do with it's firmware or
something, but as Pioneer don't do firmware upgrades, I suppose there's
nothing I can do about that.
Basically, I just wondered if anyone had any ideas, or any similar
experiences. It's out of warrantee, so if I can avoid taking it to a repair
shop, I will, but I fear that that might be innevitable.
Thanks for any help.
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Bob
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Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:
Re: Pioneer DVR-520 |
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:13:49 +0100, "The Crow"
<Thecrow@nobodyspimp.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Basically, I just wondered if anyone had any ideas, or any similar
experiences. It's out of warrantee, so if I can avoid taking it to a repair
shop, I will, but I fear that that might be innevitable.
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Did you contact tech support? You do not have to mention anything
about the warranty.
Is there a provision for returning the unit to factory default? You
might try unplugging it from utility power for several hours to see if
it reverts to factory default.
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GMAN
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Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:
Re: Pioneer DVR-520 |
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In article <43241160$0$97116$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>, "The Crow" <Thecrow@nobodyspimp.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi.
Firstly, appologies if it causes annoyance, but I've cross posted this in
the hope of catching a reply in my net.
I have a Pioneer DVR-520 DVD recorder. The other day, there was a power cut
whilst I was trying to finalise a disc. This may or may not be the cause of
the problem, but I mention it just in case it's relevant.
Anyway, for whatever reason, my recorder now won't deal with blank media.
If I put in a brand new DVD-R or RW, it just says 'unreadable or
incompatible disc', or something like that. Similarly, if I put any discs
that I have written and finalised in the past, into the player, it jut spits
them back out again. I know they are okay because they all play fine on the
other players in my house. The DVR-520 just rejects any DVD-R/RW I put in
it, whether new, blank, finalised, whatever.
It reads Audio CD's and commercial DVD's, such as my bought films etc. The
hard drive is also still working fine, I can record, edit and watch anything
I have on the hard drive.
However, whenever I try and burn a DVD, copy to DVD, backkup a DVD etc etc,
it just won't have it, spitting the thing straight back out, saying it can't
read it.
I just can't fathome what the problem might be, I don't know if there's an
error occured within the player, maybe something to do with it's firmware or
something, but as Pioneer don't do firmware upgrades, I suppose there's
nothing I can do about that.
Basically, I just wondered if anyone had any ideas, or any similar
experiences. It's out of warrantee, so if I can avoid taking it to a repair
shop, I will, but I fear that that might be innevitable.
Thanks for any help.
I know this sounds strange, but was it just a power glitch that lasted a few |
seconds or was it longer?
Try unplugging the unit overnight and then pluging it back in. Sometime with
modern electronics equipment like this, it can get confused and need to
basically be cold reset. Many Satellite receivers, vcr's and items like those
can be reset this way. |
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Darrel Christenson
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Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:
Re: Pioneer DVR-520 |
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| Quote: | Try unplugging the unit overnight and then pluging it back in. Sometime with
modern electronics equipment like this, it can get confused and need to
basically be cold reset. Many Satellite receivers, vcr's and items like those
can be reset this way.
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Seconded! My Panny has twice just refused to have
anything to do with blanks or discs it itself had
recorded and unplugging it for a few hours fixed
it right up.
drc :) |
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dave111c
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:
dvr-520 unreadable |
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| Did you ever find out the problem of your unreadable disc problem? |
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