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Mar 22, 2007, 6:15 PM
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Panasonic DVD-S35 stops working suddenly while on
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Hello Everyone, I just found this forum and hope someone can give me info or help. In Oct. 2003 I bought a Panasonic DVD/CD player model DVD-S35. It was working fine 'til last night when the first episode of a 2 episode DVD ended. As soon as the 1st episode ended, the machine suddenly turned itself off-- of course I had expected it to just continue to the 2nd episode. When I turned on the machine with the DVD still inside, it was on for ~ 2 seconds and then shut itself off. Same pattern over and over even when I was able to get the DVD out and test it with another DVD--> same problem: machine just turns itself off. Today I called Panasonic. The man helping me told me to push 3 buttons at the same time to initialize the unit. That didn't work. Then he wanted me to check the sleep mode. [Perhaps I had turned it on with the poorly designed, too-much-in-such-a-tiny-area remote control.] But checking that didn't help either. The owner's manual trouble shooting section has nothing about this problem and no error codes appear on the machine's display window. Has anyone else had this same problem? I'm no electronics expert, but if I open the case up and look around, is there anything not-so-complicated that I should inspect or test? I read a brief webpage report about some problem similar to this one and a guy said he fixed the same unit as mine by opening up the case and pushing on or fooling with some white spindle. Does the problem of my machine seem to be serious or something simply fixed by pushing on a spindle? If something else is indicated by the symptom, what could be wrong? If I can't fix this myself, does this sound like a costly commercial repair? Thanks
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