Okay, so I had this same problem today....and fyi, if you don't have
anything helpful to say in a forum, you should just not
respond....anyway....

I returned home to find that my brother had helped himself to my DVD
player, the same Panasonic one everyone is complaining about. My
player just kept shutting off after I started it.

I finally got aggravated and just pushed the eject button (which didn't
respond). So I got more aggravated and just pushed the eject button and
physically pulled the tray out. At that point I spun the turntable
inside a bit. When I loaded it back it I then tried switching disks.
It loaded a new disk and started making a whirring sound (if you've
ever heard the sound of a laser clanging on the bottom of a DVD - that
is the sound I heard). So I tried switching disks again. It turns out
that one disk somehow got on top of the other. I don't know if this is
a design defect of the DVD player or whether my brother is just stupid.
Either way, I took out one of the disks and it worked.

My recommendation - for all of you who have this problem - if your
device is not under some kind of warranty - pull the tray out
physically after you push the eject button. Don't let that DVD player
give you an sass! Take all of the disks out of the tray. Press the
eject button so that the tray goes back into the unit and try switching
disks. This should unload any disk that you have in the actual reader
of the DVD player. Once this is done, unload the rest of your disks
and start life over again.

It worked for me after like 5 minutes of fiddling with it. Who knows,
might save you a few hundred bucks from buying a new one (and a few
years in prison for killing the relatives that messed up your
machine).

Hope this helps some poor soul who doesn't want to blow money on a new
DVD system.


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tkbailey