Aspire Digital DVD Recorder model AD8091 will not load disk

A simple fix anyone can do.

[@BerrieSchuurhuis]

I like standards. Particularly the fact that there are soo many of them :-)

[@12voltvids]

But some are used. Never was a need for dvd+ disks just like hd-dvd. Toshiba and Microsoft lost big on that. Hd-dvd almost bankrupted Toshiba.

[@jasejj]

Sony was behind the + format with Philips. Toshiba if anything were in the RAM camp, I had a couple of Toshiba RAM/-RW/HDD recorders, they were a slightly cheaper and more feature-packed version of the Panasonics, although the reliability of the drives were a known problem (Toshiba UK replaced mine free of charge over a year after the warranty had expired). When it failed again I replaced mine with an LG drive which was still working a couple of years ago.

[@dlarge6502]

I had a Philips dvd recorder that also needed a belt change years ago. Very easy, prize open the drive tray a little and there is the belt, right at the front. No disassembly required, just needed tweezers and a steady hand. It also had no fan. Once when I was inside the machine I added a heat sink and fan to the main chip, there was a fan power connector provided on the board, but no fan.

[@MrJDNJ]

I just did the same belt change for my ilo brand dvd recorder (walmart sold it, circa 2005). I noticed you've got a few videos on macro-scrubbers. Have you noticed any or heard of any complaints on seeing a greenish tint on the top half of the screen when recording a tape?

[@12voltvids]

Not on the one I have which i built back in 82

[@Angelo-eo1ev]

Those VHS-C Tapes are Nice to Have, I Like Collecting VHS-C Tape

[@Jammerk40]

Ye Ha. Great job Volts!

[@darlenegoodwin]

Are some of the videocassettes eight hours? I love them long.

[@rmx77]

vhs-c was 30 minutes max in sp and like 60 minutes in lp or ep whichever it was.

[@12voltvids]

@@rmx77 The cassettes are mostly 20/60 and 30/90 for vhsc camera. The Fu size VHS are anywhere from 30 to 120 in standard speed (6 hr on ep)

[@rmx77]

@@12voltvids thats right. i had always wondered since they are a vhs tape that if u could convert them and record on them in a regular vcr with the vhs-c to full vhs adaptor

[@darlenegoodwin]

@@12voltvids thank you.

[@darlenegoodwin]

@@rmx77 thank you.

[@stphinkle]

Can most DVD recorders also play commercially bought DVDs (like the movies you buy at the store or from Amazon on DVD)?

[@12voltvids]

Yes. And it plays cd, mp3 cd, JPG photos, video cd and super video cd. I have one I should show off some day that in addition to recording on DVD-R/rw and dvd+r/RW, it will also record on CDR and cdrw and can make audio cd and both vcd and svcd. It needs service. I bet you guys would like to see this one.

[@sonyajones]

@@12voltvids - yes, please

[@12voltvids]

@@sonyajones Might look at that today as I have to take my car into the dealer. The little bastard next door fired a hockey puck over the hedge and it came down and hit my car radio antenna, the type that looks like a shark fin on the roof. Well it is plastic so it broke so no radio reception. New antenna going on today so i will be stuck around the house

[@sonyajones]

@@12voltvids - Will be looking forward to seeing the video. Thank you. Sorry to hear about the antenna. Hope all goes well.

[@robertmattison1282]

@@12voltvids Yes I would.

[@anirbannaskar7665]

100 K subs! 🎉🎉

[@12voltvids]

102k and counting.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Just curious. Did anyone take your VHS-C Tapes? I don't need them. Just wondering if they went to waste.

[@12voltvids]

Most are gone. 5 or 6 still for sale

[@dannylightyear3108]

I had to do that too on a sony dvd back in 2019.

[@fullrarealbums3543]

I have a califone school record player.i am using it to digitize 16rpm records the jack is left channel mono only is there a converter i can buy to make the sound come out of both of my stereo speakers?

[@matambale]

just use a Y adapter on the output of the record player, and attach the input of the recorder to the two Y outputs

[@fullrarealbums3543]

@@matambale thanks will get one

[@matambale]

@@fullrarealbums3543 you're welcome. you just need to make sure the connector types on the Y adapter match your player's output and your stereo inputs. You might even need another adapter to go from one connector type to another. The general idea though is that the Y adapter takes a mono input, and gives you two outputs connected to it, which can feed a stereo input.

[@fullrarealbums3543]

@@matambale yes i needed to take the first y adaptor and plug a second one into the working side to get stereo.

[@matambale]

@@fullrarealbums3543 For any second adapters, they wouldn't be Y adapters, just the sort to go from one connector type to another. (I don't know what your player's output connection looks like, nor what your recorder's input connectors look like).

[@Bluethunderboom]

Speaking of VHS-C, is there anyway that I could see how much do you want to sell the VHS-C on the Web Page?

[@12voltvids]

How many you interested in. I have 60 i believe. I am bulk erasing all of them now and should have that completed tomorrow. Slow process as I can only do about 10 tapes then i have to let the eraser cool down for 60 minutes.

[@joey_after_midnight]

Maybe they assumed the spinning DVD drive would move enough air around the chassis that it didn't need a fan. But when it was turned off or in standby the power supply might still get hot, I don't see a big heat sink. Its kind of funny how much like a VCR the design is.. a tuner or signal board, power supply board.. and a Media mover. All separate and specialized. Lots fewer cams and gears though. - That's the First model I've ever seen with Input S-Video and Jacks on the Right side.

[@12voltvids]

I have 3 Toshiba dvd recorders. 3 panasonic, a Sony, an lg, 2 Liteon and 2 Toshiba VCR/ dvd recorder combo units. Every single one has at least 1 fan. Some have 2. One on the back and one on the drive. Even my old cd burner in an ancient computer had one on the drive. Lasers get hot when burning a disk.

[@BoB4jjjjs]

Why do they not agree on a standard before they go to market, that way they all get a share, instead they would rather take a gamble and go down the tubes! That deck was the easiest I have ever seen to change a belt, that is how they all should be built.

[@12voltvids]

Much has to do with licensing and royalties. Sony invented the DVD-R / rw standard (as they did bd-r / re) This means for anyone else to build a drive or sell blank disks a fee must be paid for every unit. Other companies hate Sony so they devoloped the rw alliance and came out with an inconpatable system. Same thing happened with hd-dvd. VHS may have hurt Sony back then but this time they were not going quietly. Hd-dvd hurt Toshiba big time. Remember DCC? That was Philips answer to DAT. It pretty much killed dat in its tracks as far as a consumer format and financially hurt Philips and technics who went with that format. Interesting though that Panasonic had several DAT machines targeting recording studios (DAT became the world wide standard for recording studios, home studios and radio stations. )

[@BoB4jjjjs]

@@12voltvids Yeah, royalties get in the way of a lot of things, everyone wants their slice.

[@joey_after_midnight]

It sure would be nice if someone made a DVD+/-/RAM emulator with IDE that recorded the burn on to a USB stick. Then you could replace the drive and not have to worry about belts or media.

[@12voltvids]

The whole point of archiving to dvd media is longevity. Some will claim that optical media is no good. This is because they bought the bargain brand and it didn't last. I have hundreds yes hundreds probably close to 1000 DVD-R disks all recorded in early 2000s, and every single one of them plays perfectly. The only failures i ever had was with the dirt cheap disks that were 14.95 for a spindle of 100. I used those for commercial promo disk replication and sometimes recorded some stuff on them to life test. They failed. I just got an idea for a show! I think i have some of them that i bet will not play. I'll dig them up and try.

[@dlarge6502]

@@12voltvids I do the same as you, although I'm archiving to BD-R myself, with a backup to LTO tape. My existing older DVD+R archive is almost exclusively Verbatim AZO discs and recent scans show that at 15 or so years old they are doing fine.

[@12voltvids]

@@dlarge6502 I use bdr for HD content in BluRay compatable files. For SD i just use dvd because then any dvd player can play the file. I don't use a PC to watch content. The disks sit on spindles. I also sometimes use DVD r to archive acvhd content as BluRay players will play that too. All my catalog of KZbin videos and the source files are all stored on 500 gig bare hard drives that occupy a relatively large box. There is about 30 full drives in that box now and another stack on my desk.

[@zx8401ztv]

That was as easy as falling off a log, but without the back pain after falling :-D Yes i noticed that manufacturers of dvd recorders had a bad habit of using modified writers, a pain in the arse to find a compatable drive. They could have used a computer dvd writer, but nooo lets make it hard to replace :-(. I have one of those vhs cassette/dvd writer combination units, i played musical chairs with drives to replace the dvd writer. Dam manufacturers.

[@12voltvids]

That was so you had to spend 300 for a special drive.

[@zx8401ztv]

@@12voltvids Im not so easy to give up lol. It's a Daewoo 6 head and nicam sound unit, it slowly became worse at reading disks. And cleaning the laser lense and making sure that the sled was easy and smooth, didn't make a toss of a difference. Im sure that it would have worked for you, but not me, so out came the drive and an oddball one was dropped in and worked loverly.