Meat Plow wrote:
He disclaimered his kludge with "do it at your own risk" that was good
enough warning for me.

I've found that tweaking up the laser power on the "too cheap to fix"
DVD players made in Eastern Europe get a few more months life out of them.

It's better than nothing. There are no parts available for them, and
even if they were, they cost less than the shop time to fix them.

I gave up and took an old computer, a video card with a TV out,
a standard DVD-ROM drive and an old remote control, added in MythTV,
and got a DVD and almost anything else player. Sometime's it's anoying,
and the setup was not really easy, but it works, and keeps working.

Geoff.

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