This usually means a mechanical jam, or a drive problem involving the sled
motor - it can't home the pickup during initialization, so it shuts back
down.

Mark Z.


"Techie" wrote in message
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Almost Compleatly Dead, No display of any sort.
little red light goes to green for a few seconds, then goes back to red.

Model in particular is DVP-CX860
but also happening in DVP-C650D



"LASERandDVDfan" wrote in message
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Has anyone else clued into this one?
Im seeing Alot of DEAD Sony DVD players
all of a sudden.

What kind of dead? Dead as in it won't read a disc or dead as in it's
not
working at all?

Second, model numbers? - Reinhart