Black Screen: I bought this DVD player 6 months ago, recently the screen went black and has sound only, anybody knows what's the problem?
145438
Our DVD player is now 7 months old and it too has the problem where the screen is black. It still plays through the line out to a TV but nothing is on the screen. We don't know how this happened as it is used at gently at home. I've tried playing with the screen (opening and closing and a bit of swiveling) and it does come back but only for a short time. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
939712
I have the same player you have and have played those very same blu ray dvd'sI would unplug the player.wait a few min. allow it to reboot........andtry it againif all else fails...I would try a different disc from that collection.and If that doest work you may have gotten a defective set of discs.
764944
Sorry but I will need more information. What do you mean by "stop after 15 min" ? Was it no power at all or would not play a DVD? I have been using my Sony for years and occasionally have to unplug it and replug it in to clear internal glitches, but other than that I have had no trouble at all.
104595
read the directions of both your player & & cleaner disk !! this usually helps . , when all else fails !!
1251920
This happened to me as well, when trying to play a home-burned DVD-R on an older Sony DVD player. Many of the players that are more than about 5 years old don't seem to recognize DVD-R burned discs, only commercial "pressed" DVDs. The only thing I was able to do was buy an inexpensive newer DVD player (I got a new Sony player for about $40) and it plays all of my home-burned discs just fine.
676286
i have this problem. what can we do? i got it refurb'ed in the mail yesterday and it plays BD/CD's just fine. DVD's "This disc can not be played" ??????
1261479
Check your dvd player to see if it has an audio sync/delay feature. I've seen some that do to adjust for the audio/video delay via HDMI. I haven't had any audio sync issues, but I'm also using optical audio to a separate stereo.
1728646
I have a problem with this Blu-Ray player, too... but my problem is different. The system sound is fine, and it plays regular DVDs just fine... but if we try to play a Blu-Ray, the play keeps getting interrupted and/or randomly skipping forward or backward by itself. We even took the batteries out of our remote control thinking maybe that was the problem, but the system still randomly stopped/skipped around in playing the Blu-Ray. Any ideas?
1787952
It is most likely defective. Mine quit working within 30 days, sent it in for warranty service, got it back now it will play CD's Story well as DVD's
154127
Mine still solid and running as perfect as when I open the box. We have despised to give away the other DVD player and use this one only and we are very happy with the quality. Good luck to you
1795826
Mine was working great until a few weeks ago it quit playing BD's after upgrading the firmware to the 169 version. No problem with DVD's. I've done the firmware upgrades to version 179 and still having the same issue. Nothing on the Sony website about this issue.
1748156
Did they just forget these features when they made Blue ray players? I doubt it, they just left room for improvement so we would have a reason to buy newer models. The proof in this is to ask yourself how many DVD players you have boughtt over the years, and how many of them were bought because the old one stopped working, versus you just wanted some of the cool upgraded features they offered?
1889637
no problems with mine. you should at least be able to use the DVD player. should return it!
1701604
I have had mine for over a year and play it every day and have no problems. Have you tried contacting Sony for some tech support? That would be my only suggestion.....sorry I couldn't be more help.
1469637
I have the same problem. Played about 10 or so DVD's so far and it quit working...first it would play 1min23sec just fine and then freeze, now I get the same message as you "NO DISC". I called Coby Customer Service and spent 53 minutes on hold, when I finally talked to someone they told me to try a DVD cleaning disc and when I asked if that didn't work they said they couldn't do anything for me.....VERY POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE...and obviously A LOT of people are calling in!!!! I am just about to toss this thing in the garbage and never purchase anything from Coby again.
751782
My TV also gives me problems with the DVD player...it accepts discs, but then the disc ejects only to not accept the DVD. Then there are times it has so much static that the TV crackles loudly and I fear it's going to blow up...then there's times it doesn't do it. My color is faded and not definite and sharp with red shadows on certain programs i.e. NCIS. Michele Tucci
440890
I have this same issue with an earlier model (BDP-S350). For me the problem began when my blu-ray player automatically updated its firmware last spring. Even blu-ray disks that played fine earlier stopped playing, although many of the new disks that I've tried work fine. Sony appears to be oblivious to this issue not providing any meaningful customer support. There are several possible solutions posted on the SONY website and on various discussion forums for other models (e.g, turn off the Internet access, clear the USB jump drive memory, unplug the unit from the AC power for a minute or two). None of them worked in my case. I finally gave up and bought a new Panasonic player; out of principle I persisted in trying to 'fix' my Sony blu-ray player for quite a while and eventually decided to pay a few buck to buy my way out of the aggravation). Bye, bye Sony products, hello Panasonic (They also burned me years ago for discontinuing support [e.g., driver updates] for one of their expensive Vaio computers.).