Rotel RDV 1040 DVD CD player Repair

Would not play CD or DVD. No focus lock.

[@albertcarpentercats]

Tell me is it normal for one of the chips to be very warm.and it does a similar thing on this video it will spin and stop but it will say no disc on the display.its an all regeon player.will be the ribon cable or what let me know I will check all connections on it even the switch which the assembly unit hits.thanks please let me know.

[@tonyd1149]

Dear 12voltvids, thank you for making and posting this video (and all your videos).

[@tyler2610]

Your cat meowing at the end reminds me of the old MTM Productions logo. Ah the "good old days."

[@brancarr1]

Hmmm, so Rotel makes diced tomatoes and electronics?

[@zx8401ztv]

Nice quick fix, i like that sort :-D Some ribbons i have noticed black dots and dents where the connector pins have been pushing down on it, where there is spare ribbon length, ive cut 10 thou off the ribbon to make it seat on a fresh area. Thats often fixed very dodgy connections that didnt improve after cleaning.

[@danmackintosh6325]

I'm more of a bodger on my own equipment, just don't seat the cable fully so it contacts further out lol... Good idea on someone else's kit that needs fixing though, much more proper.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Wonderful!! Maybe I can try that if the laser lens is clean and it still won't read. I have also noticed some CDR's won't play on some units.

[@12voltvids]

Yes with CDR it is brand dependent. Some brands will not play on some players. Older disks that were dark blue or green seemed to be better.

[@fulwell1]

This customer isn't particularly lucky with his kit, or has he been storing all these repairs up?

[@BlankBrain]

Did the cable feel at all strange when you took it off? It seems that maybe you get a "gut feeling" after having fixed so many machines. I used to get intuitive clues when I repaired software that I hadn't seen before. Just wondering.

[@12voltvids]

BlankBrain no it didn't. was tight. just unclipped removed reinserted and clipped it up again.

[@violao206]

This is so ironic that I have an Onkyo DV-CP702 6-changer DVD player that is doing the same thing. Fingers crossed that this remedy works for my player.

[@tacofortgens3471]

Cororsion/oxygen on the contacta of the flat cables

[@joegrochowski669]

thanks just happen to have found phillips dvd player acting the same way, i appreciate the video. is the an occie or cheto cat? we have had similar cat, my wife would know but she is not her to tell me. j also what model variac do you use?

[@12voltvids]

SC-3M is the only number on it. 300 watts, it was a cheap POS. Need a better one as this one cuts in and out. Wiper is all pitted from constant overloading.Cat, couldn't tell you what breed she it. More likely an accie but I wouldn't know. Got her from a shelter, and she is mean. Think she was abused, as she just hates the kids, but she likes me. The wife and I are the only ones that can touch her. Trips to the vet are a nightmare. They have to put her out to do any exam. That adds at least 150 to every visit. 100 to sedate, and 50 to reverse the sedation, but she is a good mouser. No nice are rats around here with that cat. It is crazy as when I put on the jazz she jumps up on the back on my chair and "sings" along with the music.

[@emersonferreira7851]

Hi friend, I have a rotel of these rdv 1060, which when it connects it starts the image of the system, but does not recognize DVD or CD, what would be the problem in the optical drive? Could you give me this tip?

[@rawr51919]

Clean the laser lens first, then check and/or regrease the rails on the laser assembly. Should help with the problem. If that doesn't work, it'll help nail down the problem.

[@lafpml1]

You remind me of a friend of mine lives in Timmins Ontario, his name Rudy Benner same voice and looks.

[@old64goat]

I had a copyright "match" on a sound effect, so i just do not use many sounds unless they are my own i made myself.

[@12voltvids]

old64goat I had one for some music played I played on my guitar when I was 14. crazy thing is the tracks were original compositions. I had to sign an affidavit and send to KZbin as the work had never been published. it had been recorded in my neighbour's home studio. (he had been a studio musician and was my instructor when I studied music as a kid) listening to it now I don't sound half bad. couldn't play like that today if my life depended on it. 40 years of no practice will do that.

[@UnkyjoesPlayhouse]

In the KZbin creator studio you have a way to download music with no copyright issues, burn these onto your CD or MP3 and use that music instead, you can also monitize your videos with that music as well, this is now what I do. Funny though I posted a video of me setting up my projection screen and I used a clip from Sharkboy and Lavagirl and never got the notice. "I should say not yet" Keep up the great vids :)

[@12voltvids]

Unkyjoe's Playhouse I use musicbakery pretty much exclusively only because when I had the production company we bought a library of 10 disks for use in corporate videos and infomercials so we needed the public performance and broadcast rights. musicbakery is cleared for KZbin but fraudulent claims gets filed from time to time. I just find the Jack's music over at musicbakery is of superior quality. Great compositions and top notch musicians playing it. It was an expensive catalog. I think we paid about 2500 for 10 CDs. When my business partner died about 11 years ago I folded the company and took all the equipment and software as I paid for it. So I continue to use it on my yt videos.

[@UnkyjoesPlayhouse]

I see, well thanks for the great videos, just wanted to make sure you knew about the KZbin music availability, and please don't let the trolls get you down, ignore them and do what you do best.

[@12voltvids]

Yup, knew about it. Should give it a listen and see if there is anything in there that is any good. I have just been using MB stuff because I paid for it about 20 years ago, and it's all good stuff.

[@jimstandish9103]

I watch your ads to help you out, but I don't watch the ad when I get a 5 minute ad for a 15 minute video. Can you specify the length of an add to run say 1 minute or less?

[@12voltvids]

I don't specify what ads are run. That is google and they load them based on views, and personalize them to viewers, so everyone sees different ads. They should all be skipable after 4 or 5 seconds. Naturally the longer one watches the better the pay out, but as long as it is played until it can be skipped it counts. I don't even pick how many ads that are run. This is all done in the background. You will notice that typically in my ultralapse videos there is only 1, but in the tech videos there are more. That is a function on the hits. The more views a video gets the more commercial value it has, and more advertisers buy time. I make less than 1 cent per view, so it takes a lot of views to make any money at this. The money I make from videos lets me buy projects like the vacuum tube amps that I built. They were paid for with revenue generated.

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

To avoid copy right problems, record a CD of various audio frequencies from your function generator and amplifier, and color bars and cross hatches from your color and crosshatch generator.

[@12voltvids]

I use royalty free which shouldn't cause any matches but 3rd party claimants try to make the claim regardless and it results in disputes that always end in my favour.

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

@@12voltvids Back during the CRT TV days, I got a color bar generator and crosshatch generator. I copied the patterns on high-quality, a new VHS tape and CD.

[@12voltvids]

@@frankreiserm.s.8039 I ran a high end video production company in addition to working at a high end repair shop, so my camera has always has a proper smpte color bar generator, so I used to make my own alignment tapes from my professional vcr's that I verified as being dead on using an alignment tape. I had a mono scope Indian head generator which used a flying spot tube. The tube was just a round green scope tube that had a raster displayed. In front of the tube was a transparancy with the monoscope pattern and a photomultiplier tube. This was all self contained in a box as it needed to be dark inside. Produced a beautiful monoscope.

[@Naitoraven951]

On 12:35 i see some PlayStation AV component cable :-). Do you fix some PlayStation? :D Good Job with this unit and the short switch it's pretty usefull for the ESD. Never seen that before on another DVD Player.o

[@12voltvids]

No never worked on a playstation. Someone gave me a box of wires and that was in there. I do have a PS3 and my daughter has a PS2 and 4.This is the first one I have seen the short switch on as well.

[@Naitoraven951]

12voltvids That's interesting. Rotel it's a good brand if a remember well. Oh, i forgot, that 100 SFX collection is awesome :D

[@3Cr15w311]

I wonder how so many people get away with uploading entire videos with an entire copyrighted song as the audio track for the video but some get a strike with just a few seconds of something in the background.

[@12voltvids]

Its not a strike. Strikes are serious. Get 3 and they close your account. It is a content ID match. Not the same thing. When people upload copyright content they get a match. When a match is found the video is usually allowed but the money collected goes to the copyright holder. I put up a video where I did a comparison of different vinyl pressings to a CD. I used George Benson "Breezin" as a test track. Warner immediately put a claim on it, so the majority of the advertising collected goes to WMG not to me. I knew that was going t o happen, but I needed to play more than 5 seconds to allow for A-B comparing. So that video I make squat from. My repair videos I do make money from the advertising, so it is imperative that no copyright matches are made, as I don't want my royalties for views going to another claimant. This is also why I tag my videos with my opening logo, to stop people from ripping, and reposting. Sure they can cut that out, but the original is there with my copyright intro.I don't make the kind of money that some youtubers do, and that makes it even more important that I am not sharing it with claimants.A copyright strike is on the other hand when a copyright owner files a complaint and orders the video taken down. I have never had a strike, however I did instigate one last year when I found that some of my footage that I shot for a commercial production I did in 1999 ended up in someone elses production and ended up on youtube.I uploaded my time coded content, to prove it was my footage and instigated a take down notice, and the offending video was removed. That is what a strike is, and that one is serious.

[@sanjeevkumarpandey8654]

DVD का साउण्ड समस्या का उपाय बताईयेगा

[@gordiefrench5342]

you are a master at repair. just some thought for a future repair , a home theater receiver that goes random into protect mode. i have a pioneer elite that does this random thank you the great videos

[@12voltvids]

I generally avoid home theatre receivers. Too much going on in DSPs that cause many headaches. I stick mainly to the older 2 channel gear. Generally better quality, and people are more willing to spend money on their good old units.

[@EastAngliaUK]

pretty cool that was easy fix I could of done that.

[@12voltvids]

That was easy. Found it totally by accident, as I didn't expect it to just be a connector not seated properly. I was initially thinking bad pickup.

[@Si1983h]

12voltvids yep, I’d have assumed it to be the pickup in a DVD machine... DVD mechanisms are hellishly unreliable in my experience.

[@lerothodinyatso6071]

My Rotel DVD does the same thing

[@xavierrose8208]

To avoid the copy right from those bastards, just make a copy of a CD with the KZbin audio library on it. Or use classical music

[@12voltvids]

I've had this bullshit with the youtube library too.

[@EddieJazzFan]

Pricey components like Rotel always have some weird thing that goes wrong. I'll take a Sony 99 dollar CD player any day over the esoteric brands.

[@michaelcruz7704]

Yeah expensive players does not perform well. Better buy the generics one it's more reliable than those branded ones.

[@sehnzeleid]

Rotel's DVD players are just JVC rebadges.

[@UHF43]

That disc tray was supicious to me.

[@sehnzeleid]

Rebadged JVC.

[@mikedillon6233]

youtube makes enough money, why do they have to have yours? It's seems really cheap of youtube .

[@John-so4fq]

Cut the background noise.

[@MrTopsoil911]

Sorry but u get too excited for reparing nothing. Hmm just plug unplug . A repair?? And always u ask a question with a question lol

[@12voltvids]

Did the unit play when it arrived? No. Did it play after re-seating the ribbon cable, yes. So yes it is a repair, and it paid me very well. And you are an idiot, but anyone reading your comment already knows this.

[@danmackintosh6325]

@@12voltvids You forgot to ask a question with a question... Oh dear haha