Ok had this Sony (Il give you the exact model if needed) for 2 years. The first year it worked great, played all the DVDs I put in. This year however its being a total bitch!
This is the scenario:
*Put in a DVD
*Watch for 3 minutes
then..............
The screen just goes black!You can still hear the music/speaking (full audio) but just no picture. Now I havent really bothered to do anything about this for the year because I have 2 other DVD Players (one on PC and one on PS2) As its Christmas however and I have all these new DVDs (Woohoo :D ) I thought I better get the thing fixed. So does anyone have any suggestions?
Yesterday I decided to test it out again and it played for 3 minutes then went black for approx. 3 seconds and then started playing again. (Very surprising!) It didnt last long though, after 9 minutes it did it again, this time staying like that.

what should I do?

If you happen to have another set of cables that match what you have, try it first. Otherwise, I would just junk it and get a new one. DVD players are getting cheaper all the time and you can just about get a new for the cost of getting someone to look at it.
Last year my CD player crapped out and I had 3 choices:
1) Get it fixed
2) Buy a new CD Player
3) Buy a DVD player

I picked #3, of course. I bought a Toshiba 5 disk for $99.00 at Amazon and it has worked great so far. I figure if it craps out, I'll just get a new one.
This is the age of disposable electronics!

Mark

this one is quite a good one though so I would quite like to get it fixed! Also even though its 2 years old, it hasnt played an awful lot of DVDs.

Bump!!

Bump again, come on guys!!!!!!

<font color=skyblue>I know nothing of DVD repair. I can only fix VCRs. If I find something in the future of any use to you...I will let you know. Sorry.</font>

Take it to get fixed dude. Unless it is right in front of them most people won't be able to tell you what is wrong.

OK guys thanks for your help. Anyone have any suggestions other than those? I think I might get it seen to, theres no real point in buying another one.

Just thoughtId tell you all I got it fixed, took literally three minutes. I opened the back of the TV desk thing (dont know what there called!) and took the scart out gave it a clean and put it back in properly and now it works fine.

The only strange thing was that it always stopped the DVDs at 3minutes, STRANGE!!!

Thanks for all your help even if some of you tried to con me into getting a new one! :D ;)

Ouch, I think I just got smacked!

Mark