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One spinny disk cleany thing. One removed cover and cleaning with alchohol swabby thing. One no longer non-workie blu ray player! Yay!

Shortest. Gbaji Post. Evar.

I thought it would be a thread about tits


Although I bet all of Gbaji's **** is on blu-ray

These.

"How many ***** is that?"
"A lot."

gbaji, are you saying that you took the cover off the player and swabbed the laser with alcohol? I wonder if I need to do that with my DVD players. (The Blu-Ray is still new)

That's the only thing I would use gin for.

I've been told one of the best ways to ruin a player is to smoke around it. The chemicals in the smoke slowly coat the lens of the player
and finally ruin it. Most cleaners used on it ruin it anyways. I went through 2 players in 2 years before I learned that my smoking
roommate was killing them and me slowly. I got rid of roommate and bought another player. The player is still going strong.

Not the laser itself (although I assume you meant the lens, cause I don't have magic swabs of etherialness in my medicine cabinet). You really don't want to be manually handling that (doubly so for a blu ray since the lens is more sensitive). What can happen with some players over time is that dust doesn't just get on the lens, but also on the contact surfaces. This can cause the disks to slip, ******** up the spin rate and preventing proper reading of the disk. If you're hearing your player humming loudly sometimes, this is the likely culprit.

You could pull the actual drive bay apart, or you can use a trick I read about somewhere. You swab rubbing alcohol along the outer and inner edge of a disk and put it in the tray and let it play. This will clean the points where the physical drive mechanism contacts the disk (sorta) and may correct the problem. It's not perfect, but if you've done the lens cleaning disk and have blown out the tray area (that should probably be the very first thing you do), and the player is out of warranty anyway, you've kinda got nothing to lose.

Lol! I was this close. I actually spent about a week researching blu ray players. Most of the reviews say "buy a PS3". My problem is that it's like some kind of evil trap. I'll buy it, but then I'll think "Gee. It's such a waste to have a gaming console and not play games on it", and then I'll have to start buying games, and controller dohickies, and whatever else they attempt to foist upon me. All because I just wanted to buy a box that plays blu ray disks.

Hell. I'm not even that happy with all the extra wizbang features they're tossing on tvs and players right now. I don't subscribe to those streaming content places for a reason, but now they're going to put icons for them right in my face, mocking me with their ready and easy availability? /shudder