This is a good fix Vince, this video is a typical example video for people who are getting rid of their old equipment because they simply don't know how to fix it. Yes the laser may be at the end of its life but if you play a DVD every now and then it can still last a long time.
Nice one Vince 👍I didn't spot where the SD card slot was missing from until you pointed it out. I was expecting it to be from the TV board and not the DVD player board. Must be something in the air as I've been working on a couple of TVs myself 😂😂😂
I was silently screaming in my head as I immediately spotted where the SD card slot went on the board. Great video as always Vince. I've encountered way too many TV DVD combo units over the years with dead drives, and old CRT TVs with built in VCRs with the same issue. I could never decide whether it is a case of them using poor quality drives or if the TV just naturally outlast them. I must admit I've not managed to repair many myself, it usually results in me losing patience and giving up. Though I can really see the benefit of a combo in a camper van so I'm glad you got this one up and running.
CD from memory is a different colour laser IR from memory and DVD is Red Blueray is Blue I believe, so DVD/CD devices have 2 lasers and BR/DVD/CD has 3 lasers
@@SimonNemeth nope looked it up to double check BR has 3 lasers DVD has 2 CD has 1, CD's laser is 780nm so infrared in colour, DVD is 650nm and is a Red colour and Blueray is 405nm and is well Blue, it's just they make a combination DVD and CD modual that has both lasers in a single package but both can be adjusted individually that's how dvd players stop playing dvds but play cds fine it's a different laser for each medium
if it's one of those models that can region unlock the disc reading i can see this tv have alot more life than you expect Vince especially with it having those composites and scart. Vintage tech will still be usable on them unlike the modern sets you can acquire now.
I do like the video, as usual! :)) But if you read this comment, I should add a few things: As another person already mentioned, C is for CD and D is for DVD, as they use two different laser diodes (even one more for Blu-ray). The prices for lasers from China are now quite low-unlike a few years ago-so for around 10 to 20 pounds, you can get one that usually works well. So nowadays, it's kind of worth replacing. But before replacing, you need to... (*MOST IMPORTANT*) Check and possibly change the capacitors on the laser diode power line! You need to find which capacitors are close to the laser power by following the tracks (if there is no schematic) and change those capacitors. Almost 50% of the time, they fail before the laser does, and even if you get a new laser, it still might not work. I wasted quite a few lasers that were actually good before I figured out those capacitors were going bad. I realized this when I got a new laser that behaved the same as the old one. I didn't give up and eventually found out the capacitor on the laser power line was dead. Then I realized I had probably thrown away a lot of other lasers that had the same issue. :( Anyway i loved watching the video!! Nice videos as usual! A - and by the way - it will last! They usualy do - got one done the same way that runs for years! Just as i said be aware of the caps!
It’s crazy how I started watch your videos back when you were in your Nintendo switch era which was is 2018 or 2019 and I glad to see your still going strong btw keep up the good work 😊😁
Loving the inputs available on that thing, I'd keep that my workbench. The SD card isn't much of a loss, but if needed, I'm pretty sure you could solder it back on or a new socket. Great fix as usual.
Yep, that was what I was thinking as the DVD player appeared to be a separate unit that the TV mainboard controls and displays the output of, rather that being fully integrated.
A 4 1/4" pair of channel lock pliers are your best friend for reshaping ports. On tvs, consoles, pretty much anything. They're a must for electronics in my experience.
It's weird how blind we can be to certain details sometimes when trying to look at a overview to find faults. My eyes were drawn to the place for the SD-card slot immediately :P And amazed that you missed it even though you looked at the slot on the side when looking at the USB :D I know I've done similar things too haha
The PCMCIA socket found on TV's and DVB set top boxes were used as extra encryption for subscription services in the early days of digital TV like On Digital (later ITV Digital) and Top Up TV. It used a caddie that had a card reader, provided by the service provider and was used like Sky's subscription cards until internet ready boxes became more standard place and was largely phased out.
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Hey vince, the PCMCIA card slots on older TV's were for certain cable companies. It turned the TV itself into a cable box, instead of having to use an external tuner.
Maybe the child shoving bits into that TV is now in there twenties and blushing watching this video. I hope so ;) A handy thing to rescue for retro computing / consoles. Lots of inputs you don't get without forking out for specialist gear like a retrotink. Still probably useful for caravans or for lorry drivers (though they probably have better options now).
Excellent fix Vince they charge stupid money for things for caravans & camper vans, fridges, TVs, are ridiculous prices. A guy I know made a fortune making hookup cables with the relevant plug and RCD to his customers spec!
The high voltage board is for the (ccfl) backlight. You can recognize it thanks to the 2 (or sometimes 4) 2 pin connectors that come out the top, and obviously for the high voltage warnings.
From the date on the board (2009) SD card slots were common on TVs for putting SD cards from digital cameras in. This was just before smartphones really took off and replaced digital cameras. It was an easy way to look at photos on your TV.
Vince what I would do is find a pair of pliers or something and grabing the screw driver, sort of like a spanner verses a pry bar, so while a spanner might undo quicker for less movement, a pry bar would move less, but give more leverage over the distance it has to travel. and when it comes to small screwdriver verses small screw driver and pliers. just an outside the box thought. to move the potentiometer a small amount
Love these videos, especially the sound of your missis doing the dishes in the background while you're 'messing about with your little toys' 😊 Only joking...my missis would say much worse!! 😂
I immediately saw where that SD reader went, I don't see how you missed it. There's a slot for it on the black plastic cover, but the reader is missing from the board where the slot is. Still a good fix and good video though. 🙂
I really enjoyed "The Lost Room". Looking back, CDs and DVDs were incredible, but not such a great idea after all - media that can get scratched and stop working, moving parts, cables and fine adjustments... Those PCMCIA slots could be used for a variety of things (mostly in laptops). I have here, for example, a Wi-Fi card.
Very nice combo device, lots of connectors, and even dvd player. Nice fix. Does it even have analog tuner,? I'm thinking it might be pretty nice display for retro consoles. The fallen screw may be a grounding screw, which could have something to do with the initial malfunctioning? I watch also 12voltvids channel who sometimes repairs lcd TV's and learned about grounding screws from there.
Saw probably this same device in local flea market, but it had different name, which I already forgot. Price was just 10 Euros, not sure if it was in fully working condition. Had power supply and remote controller included. Decided to leave it for now, altough usb and memory card playback would be useful sometimes.
Very good video, I have touched the laser power potentiometer on Pioneer CD players years ago and they still work for me, since some of these lasers cost more than €150 and I'm not exactly rich, hahaha. Muy buen video, yo he tocado el potenciómetro de la potencia del laser de reproductores de CD Pioneer hace años y aun me funcionan, ya que estos láseres cuestan algunos mas de 150€ y no es que sea yo rico 😂😂😂
Good fix. That's it, blame the kids, when it was likely an inebriated camper (how did little Charlie get the back off to recover the sheared-off SD slot, so they could post it back?)
Oh dear, I was so engrossed in what you were doing with the laser pots, whilst rebuilding the rba deck in my fancy Voopoo ecig I put it all together without the top part of the deck and was trying to fill it up and just got tons of ejuice everywhere arrgh I am in the midst of sorting out my daughters old bedroom installing two industrial stacking shelf units and trying to make some workroom in there to do my watches and my lathework as I now have my 1930's Portass mini lathe thoroughly working forward, backwards, 100 revs to about 4000 revs and everything in between. Also converted one of my Xbox One 1540's into a Forza edition one, looking nice and pretty and growly car noises on and off, do likes a bit of Forza and its cool I can play 4 or 5 on my PC and then go and play on my Xbox One's (got two). Working on a couple PS3 phats I got for abs silly money, one was free cost of postage only, 2nd one cost me a little bit and a fiver postage and is coming with a free complete Wii... :D
Without yet seeing you open the unit up and examine the insides, I'd say it's probably been dropped or roughly handled, and there's broken plastic in there, hence the rattling noises.
Laserunit is a HOP120X, if you ever want to replace it. But beware, stuff from aliexpress and so on doesn’t always work, sometimes is does, sometimes it doesn’t 😢
Hi Vince, now you know what the fallen piece is, will you re-solder it back? As a Part II? 😀 The other thing is PCMCIA slot which stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
Those DVD boards usually come with their integrated chips set up for USB and SD communication, that's likely why they're on that board and not accessible thru the Tv's input menu, they will likely be accessible through the DVD menu, so when it says loading, and realizes there's no disc, it will then probably go USB, and when it realizes there's no USB it'll go SD.
Please tell me I am not so old that I DO know what a PCMCIA port is. Many laptops from the early 90's had them, like Thinkpads etc. Various things could plug into them, such as memory cards, modems, etc
Laptops back in the early 2000s usually had PCMCIA slots for expansion cards. Wireless internet cards were the main PCMCIA devices I remember having to use. Definitely not the kind of thing I'd expect to see on a TV.
PCMCIA slot (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) is for an old industry standard PC Card, a forerunner of things like SD-Cards. The high voltage warning label is for the backlight invertor for the LCD display. The LASER is incredibly sensitive to static electricity. Probing with your meter and touching contacts on the ribbon cable that plugs into it could damage the LASER. You're right about the focus and current being the adjustments and also right that too high a current would reduce the life of the LASER. Having said all that, now you've tweaked it and it survived I bet the thing lasts for years and years. Those low end cheap as chips other brand older LCD/DVD combos are mostly quite robust, which seems counter intuitive when you look at the build quality. Sometimes (and I don't know if it's the case with this TV) the USB port is used for firmware upgrades using a key combo on the remote control, bringing up a service menu on-screen.
PCMCIA cards in TVs were used to watch scrambled TV. Most of them worked with smart cards. So a module with a card reader (for example Irdeto, Conax, Mediaguard) was put in the PCMCIA slot and the customer has to put in his smart card.
Vince, I suspect that PCMCIA card slot was used for TV tuner cards to decrypt and access cable (or satellite?) TV service. Here in the US, we used to have CableCards to support cable TV, if we didn't want to use the cable company's set top boxes and had our own hardware solution. I suspect it was probably for the same thing on that TV; which would make sense for a portable camper-style TV, where you had a satellite dish and a tuner card to decrypt and view digital TV channels on that TV. Also I would call it a successful fix. Nothing wrong with giving a 15 year old laser a bit more of a boost to work again! Though the rattling screw that seemed to undo itself from the motherboard has me a bit perplexed how that could've happened! However, looking back at the video, it almost looks like there's a rubber grommet on the back case that allows the screw to go through the case, through the VESA bracket inside the case, directly into that hole on the motherboard. Maybe they unscrewed it at one point and didn't successfully extract it through the opening, and dropped it through back into the housing? 🤷♂
Cheers Steven, the loose screw is odd, I'll have another look at the back to see if I can see what's what. I don't think anyone has been in here before though, but saying that I did manage to miss that there was ripped off SD card solder pads on the board so anything is possible!!!
I found that some devices have two lasers. One for CD and one for DVD. A fact I discovered on a Sony PS2 that would play CD games but not DVD games until I replaced the laser module. So I'm assuming the C was for CD and the D for DVD.
You mentioned possibility of 'weak' Capacitor, so may not be lasar if Capacitor helps with power. Knowing you get Joy when 'more wrong', Why not, at least test it? Nice fix, ... for now. : }
This is a good fix Vince, this video is a typical example video for people who are getting rid of their old equipment because they simply don't know how to fix it. Yes the laser may be at the end of its life but if you play a DVD every now and then it can still last a long time.
Really great job on this one Vince! I was shocked when it actually worked. Very entertaining video. Thanks!!
Nice one Vince 👍I didn't spot where the SD card slot was missing from until you pointed it out. I was expecting it to be from the TV board and not the DVD player board. Must be something in the air as I've been working on a couple of TVs myself 😂😂😂
I was silently screaming in my head as I immediately spotted where the SD card slot went on the board. Great video as always Vince. I've encountered way too many TV DVD combo units over the years with dead drives, and old CRT TVs with built in VCRs with the same issue. I could never decide whether it is a case of them using poor quality drives or if the TV just naturally outlast them. I must admit I've not managed to repair many myself, it usually results in me losing patience and giving up. Though I can really see the benefit of a combo in a camper van so I'm glad you got this one up and running.
I think vince is going blind I spotted it too 😅
Great video Vince - thanks for the mention, nice to see Lost Room being tested! C = CD-ROM, D = DVD. It probably supports CD-ROM as well as DVD disks!
CD from memory is a different colour laser IR from memory and DVD is Red Blueray is Blue I believe, so DVD/CD devices have 2 lasers and BR/DVD/CD has 3 lasers
Cheers Chris, I need to try the Daniel O'Donnell music CD on it now 😂, maybe the CD part of the laser is out as I tweaked it a little 👍
@@simonupton-millard Only a BR Drive has 2 lasers.
@@Mymatevince 🤣 Great work in any case!
@@SimonNemeth nope looked it up to double check BR has 3 lasers DVD has 2 CD has 1, CD's laser is 780nm so infrared in colour, DVD is 650nm and is a Red colour and Blueray is 405nm and is well Blue, it's just they make a combination DVD and CD modual that has both lasers in a single package but both can be adjusted individually that's how dvd players stop playing dvds but play cds fine it's a different laser for each medium
if it's one of those models that can region unlock the disc reading i can see this tv have alot more life than you expect Vince especially with it having those composites and scart. Vintage tech will still be usable on them unlike the modern sets you can acquire now.
I do like the video, as usual! :)) But if you read this comment, I should add a few things:
As another person already mentioned, C is for CD and D is for DVD, as they use two different laser diodes (even one more for Blu-ray).
The prices for lasers from China are now quite low-unlike a few years ago-so for around 10 to 20 pounds, you can get one that usually works well. So nowadays, it's kind of worth replacing. But before replacing, you need to...
(*MOST IMPORTANT*) Check and possibly change the capacitors on the laser diode power line! You need to find which capacitors are close to the laser power by following the tracks (if there is no schematic) and change those capacitors. Almost 50% of the time, they fail before the laser does, and even if you get a new laser, it still might not work. I wasted quite a few lasers that were actually good before I figured out those capacitors were going bad. I realized this when I got a new laser that behaved the same as the old one. I didn't give up and eventually found out the capacitor on the laser power line was dead. Then I realized I had probably thrown away a lot of other lasers that had the same issue. :(
Anyway i loved watching the video!! Nice videos as usual! A - and by the way - it will last! They usualy do - got one done the same way that runs for years! Just as i said be aware of the caps!
The lost roooomm!! It was one of the best series I've ever watched in mid 2000's.
I spotted where it supposed to be trying to tell you through the screen lol. Great video by the way. 👍
Love your videos... always a pleasure to hear your intro music.
It’s crazy how I started watch your videos back when you were in your Nintendo switch era which was is 2018 or 2019 and I glad to see your still going strong btw keep up the good work 😊😁
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Thank you John!!! Very kind of you😎
Thank you! Love your videos! Can you do more around the house fixes? I enjoyed those
Loving the inputs available on that thing, I'd keep that my workbench. The SD card isn't much of a loss, but if needed, I'm pretty sure you could solder it back on or a new socket. Great fix as usual.
Nice complete kit that TV thing! I'm calling it a fix too! :') Thanks again for sharing!
Thanks devtty 😎
Try using the USB port in DVD mode. It may be integrated with the DVD player module. Great video by the way
Yep, that was what I was thinking as the DVD player appeared to be a separate unit that the TV mainboard controls and displays the output of, rather that being fully integrated.
Nice little fix. I like the variety of ports this TV has. They don't do that anymore.
Thanks for the videos Vince, having my tea watching this
Looks like an ideal monitor with that variety of ports for testing stuff like retro consoles.
Let's get Vince to 1 million subscribers everyone. He does great repair videos which are always fun and entertaining.
he will get there soon. no need to rush
Love you videos Vince keep it up 🎉
Great video Vince and a welcome distraction currently. Keep them coming. 😊
A 4 1/4" pair of channel lock pliers are your best friend for reshaping ports. On tvs, consoles, pretty much anything. They're a must for electronics in my experience.
I'm glad you know where the SD card reader goes. I think before you said lots of people were shouting through the screen lol
@@pds8475 I didn't spot it until watching it back!!!😅
I'll admit i was one of the shouters haha
Hi vince on a dvd player there are two lasers in the same housing one red (c) for CDs and one violet (D) for playing DVDs
Wow The lost room, loved that series, too bad they didn't do more
I've tweaked a few at Repair Cafes with good results but did the unscientific "clockwise for more" and it's worked.
It's weird how blind we can be to certain details sometimes when trying to look at a overview to find faults. My eyes were drawn to the place for the SD-card slot immediately :P And amazed that you missed it even though you looked at the slot on the side when looking at the USB :D
I know I've done similar things too haha
Nice fix Vince
Nice one. I used to fix drives all the time this way. They usually last awhile
The PCMCIA socket found on TV's and DVB set top boxes were used as extra encryption for subscription services in the early days of digital TV like On Digital (later ITV Digital) and Top Up TV. It used a caddie that had a card reader, provided by the service provider and was used like Sky's subscription cards until internet ready boxes became more standard place and was largely phased out.
Really enjoyed that first video from this cash converters haul
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I'm not one who normally yells at videos but I definitely said "IT GOES RIGHT THERE" so many times
Yeah me too, think Vince need to go to spec savers 😂
Hey vince, the PCMCIA card slots on older TV's were for certain cable companies. It turned the TV itself into a cable box, instead of having to use an external tuner.
good fix, and for The Lost Room. im a Sci fi fan but never heard of this series. half hour in I'm well hooked lol
Maybe the child shoving bits into that TV is now in there twenties and blushing watching this video. I hope so ;) A handy thing to rescue for retro computing / consoles. Lots of inputs you don't get without forking out for specialist gear like a retrotink. Still probably useful for caravans or for lorry drivers (though they probably have better options now).
Excellent fix Vince they charge stupid money for things for caravans & camper vans, fridges, TVs, are ridiculous prices. A guy I know made a fortune making hookup cables with the relevant plug and RCD to his customers spec!
Nah, D is for DVD and C is for Compact Disc (CD)
My buddy had a VW van in high school, it was great. Good memories.
Lost room good short series, wish it was longer
The high voltage board is for the (ccfl) backlight. You can recognize it thanks to the 2 (or sometimes 4) 2 pin connectors that come out the top, and obviously for the high voltage warnings.
From the date on the board (2009) SD card slots were common on TVs for putting SD cards from digital cameras in. This was just before smartphones really took off and replaced digital cameras. It was an easy way to look at photos on your TV.
Vince what I would do is find a pair of pliers or something and grabing the screw driver, sort of like a spanner verses a pry bar, so while a spanner might undo quicker for less movement, a pry bar would move less, but give more leverage over the distance it has to travel. and when it comes to small screwdriver verses small screw driver and pliers. just an outside the box thought. to move the potentiometer a small amount
Hey Vince they are worth good money especially in the caravan world 12v tvs are expensive 👌
good semi perm fix. You may be surprised how expensive 12v stuff for campers and boats are
Nice, loved this one. Also included the most used soundtrack on this channel: Unloading the dishwasher :p
Hahahaha
Great video thank you for sharing!!!
Love these videos, especially the sound of your missis doing the dishes in the background while you're 'messing about with your little toys' 😊 Only joking...my missis would say much worse!! 😂
I immediately saw where that SD reader went, I don't see how you missed it. There's a slot for it on the black plastic cover, but the reader is missing from the board where the slot is. Still a good fix and good video though. 🙂
Lost Room was a good show, just wish they did more seasons
The Common Interface is for CI Modules (PCMCIA), so you can Watsh Pay TV or like in England "Free to View" Programmes.
I really enjoyed "The Lost Room".
Looking back, CDs and DVDs were incredible, but not such a great idea after all - media that can get scratched and stop working, moving parts, cables and fine adjustments...
Those PCMCIA slots could be used for a variety of things (mostly in laptops). I have here, for example, a Wi-Fi card.
Very nice combo device, lots of connectors, and even dvd player. Nice fix. Does it even have analog tuner,? I'm thinking it might be pretty nice display for retro consoles.
The fallen screw may be a grounding screw, which could have something to do with the initial malfunctioning? I watch also 12voltvids channel who sometimes repairs lcd TV's and learned about grounding screws from there.
Saw probably this same device in local flea market, but it had different name, which I already forgot. Price was just 10 Euros, not sure if it was in fully working condition. Had power supply and remote controller included. Decided to leave it for now, altough usb and memory card playback would be useful sometimes.
Very good video, I have touched the laser power potentiometer on Pioneer CD players years ago and they still work for me, since some of these lasers cost more than €150 and I'm not exactly rich, hahaha. Muy buen video, yo he tocado el potenciómetro de la potencia del laser de reproductores de CD Pioneer hace años y aun me funcionan, ya que estos láseres cuestan algunos mas de 150€ y no es que sea yo rico 😂😂😂
The slanted capacitor CE89 at @8:01 looks like it is bulging.
Good fix. That's it, blame the kids, when it was likely an inebriated camper (how did little Charlie get the back off to recover the sheared-off SD slot, so they could post it back?)
Oh dear, I was so engrossed in what you were doing with the laser pots, whilst rebuilding the rba deck in my fancy Voopoo ecig I put it all together without the top part of the deck and was trying to fill it up and just got tons of ejuice everywhere arrgh I am in the midst of sorting out my daughters old bedroom installing two industrial stacking shelf units and trying to make some workroom in there to do my watches and my lathework as I now have my 1930's Portass mini lathe thoroughly working forward, backwards, 100 revs to about 4000 revs and everything in between. Also converted one of my Xbox One 1540's into a Forza edition one, looking nice and pretty and growly car noises on and off, do likes a bit of Forza and its cool I can play 4 or 5 on my PC and then go and play on my Xbox One's (got two). Working on a couple PS3 phats I got for abs silly money, one was free cost of postage only, 2nd one cost me a little bit and a fiver postage and is coming with a free complete Wii... :D
Any more Amazon boxes?? Have you completed other projects with previous boxes. I’d like to see more fixes. ❤
PCMI memory cards were used on PDAs, personal digital assistants, and professional grade digital cameras up to about 15 to 20 years ago.
PCMCIA cards in TV's are for Digital TV decoder cards. They are still used in abundance.
Without yet seeing you open the unit up and examine the insides, I'd say it's probably been dropped or roughly handled, and there's broken plastic in there, hence the rattling noises.
Laserunit is a HOP120X, if you ever want to replace it.
But beware, stuff from aliexpress and so on doesn’t always work, sometimes is does, sometimes it doesn’t 😢
I think C potenciometer is for adjusting CD power and D is for DVD. Playstation 2 lasers are made that way so I guess its common.
Hi Vince, now you know what the fallen piece is, will you re-solder it back? As a Part II? 😀
The other thing is PCMCIA slot which stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
Those diodes were replacing a fuse. F1 on the silkscreen.
That slot is used for doing updates to the motherboard
Those DVD boards usually come with their integrated chips set up for USB and SD communication, that's likely why they're on that board and not accessible thru the Tv's input menu, they will likely be accessible through the DVD menu, so when it says loading, and realizes there's no disc, it will then probably go USB, and when it realizes there's no USB it'll go SD.
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these cheapo all in one tvs always where cheap junk made for kids rooms but nice that you fixed it 🎉
Please tell me I am not so old that I DO know what a PCMCIA port is. Many laptops from the early 90's had them, like Thinkpads etc. Various things could plug into them, such as memory cards, modems, etc
the 2 diodes protect from reverse polarity ?
What if, the sd card slot knocking about hit one of the pots and did this? Maybe it still has many many hours, that laser seemed quite healthy
Laptops back in the early 2000s usually had PCMCIA slots for expansion cards. Wireless internet cards were the main PCMCIA devices I remember having to use. Definitely not the kind of thing I'd expect to see on a TV.
Great for power cuts ,you can run it off the Rollers battery
PCMCIA slot (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) is for an old industry standard PC Card, a forerunner of things like SD-Cards. The high voltage warning label is for the backlight invertor for the LCD display. The LASER is incredibly sensitive to static electricity. Probing with your meter and touching contacts on the ribbon cable that plugs into it could damage the LASER. You're right about the focus and current being the adjustments and also right that too high a current would reduce the life of the LASER. Having said all that, now you've tweaked it and it survived I bet the thing lasts for years and years. Those low end cheap as chips other brand older LCD/DVD combos are mostly quite robust, which seems counter intuitive when you look at the build quality. Sometimes (and I don't know if it's the case with this TV) the USB port is used for firmware upgrades using a key combo on the remote control, bringing up a service menu on-screen.
@@radio-ged4626 Thanks for all the info Radio Ged👍
PCMCIA cards in TVs were used to watch scrambled TV. Most of them worked with smart cards. So a module with a card reader (for example Irdeto, Conax, Mediaguard) was put in the PCMCIA slot and the customer has to put in his smart card.
Take care of your eyes Vince staring at lasers 😵💫. Regarding the fault maybe vibration from viewing on the move knocked out the adjustment?
is it blue ray compatible or just DVD?
Vince, I suspect that PCMCIA card slot was used for TV tuner cards to decrypt and access cable (or satellite?) TV service. Here in the US, we used to have CableCards to support cable TV, if we didn't want to use the cable company's set top boxes and had our own hardware solution. I suspect it was probably for the same thing on that TV; which would make sense for a portable camper-style TV, where you had a satellite dish and a tuner card to decrypt and view digital TV channels on that TV.
Also I would call it a successful fix. Nothing wrong with giving a 15 year old laser a bit more of a boost to work again! Though the rattling screw that seemed to undo itself from the motherboard has me a bit perplexed how that could've happened! However, looking back at the video, it almost looks like there's a rubber grommet on the back case that allows the screw to go through the case, through the VESA bracket inside the case, directly into that hole on the motherboard. Maybe they unscrewed it at one point and didn't successfully extract it through the opening, and dropped it through back into the housing? 🤷♂
Cheers Steven, the loose screw is odd, I'll have another look at the back to see if I can see what's what. I don't think anyone has been in here before though, but saying that I did manage to miss that there was ripped off SD card solder pads on the board so anything is possible!!!
Definitely for decryption.
Revisit to put the sd card slot back on?
Watching a DVD, what a quaint notion. Perhaps afterwards we should have a slide night or play charades, lol
A Magic Lantern show, YAYYYYYY!
Was literally pointing at the screen shouting "THERE" when you're sure where the SD slot went :D
I was going with a region check chip had blown or something
does it play bue ray discs? discs?
Sorry @Tronicsfix Vince didnt mean @8:45
These tvs are definitely still in demand. Infact most 12v tvs are
high voltage board for the CCFL Backlight tubes
PCMCIA might for digital broadcasted stations like a dish or the modern digital airial TV broadcast.
a PCMCIA card was used in old laptops from the 80's and 90's
Great release as always! ❤
I have dvd players that can't read newer dvds the firmware might not support that particular dvds menu options.
Does this mean the next big project is a camper van restoration? /s
Can't understand why you didn’t try the 2nd DVD in the faulty machine?
maybe USB is used for firmware upgrades, too
2 lasers 1 for audio 1 for DVD.
On the Xbox portion of Demo, it said it was a BluRay Disc, not DVD.
The copyright page said, DVD....
I found that some devices have two lasers. One for CD and one for DVD.
A fact I discovered on a Sony PS2 that would play CD games but not DVD games until I replaced the laser module. So I'm assuming the C was for CD and the D for DVD.
Usually there are two laser diodes, one for CD and one for DVD, and they are labeled here C and D
You mentioned possibility of 'weak' Capacitor, so may not be lasar if Capacitor helps with power. Knowing you get Joy when 'more wrong', Why not, at least test it?
Nice fix, ... for now. : }
May last a good while if the laser current was only a bit to low
Just don't punch them like I do lol
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