Hi,
We've had out Denon 5900 since soon after it first came out (so, just over 4 years now), so it is far from a new machine, but it still produces gorgeous standard def output...when it produces at all! It's alway been a bit temperamental, rejecting disks that other player will play. But the problem seems to have gotten worse. Today, my husband tried to watch our Alias DVDs. We've watched these before, but not in a while. They are full factory versions (not just burned DVDs, which have actually given us LESS problems but at least would be somewhat understandable) that have not given us problems, but the DVD player just gives us "Disk Error." My husband estimates it won't play perfectly good disks 10% of the time, and he's ready to chuck it out the window. Now, this was a $2k machine when we bought it. So, if we just get rid of it now, that's $500/year. That's not OK with me, especially when we were looking to invest in a Blu-Ray player soon. Plus, I am not willing to deal with any standard def output less gorgeous than what I'm used to from the 5900!
We have the most recent firmware. We can't think of what else to do. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution? I did a search but I didn't find anything. Obviously, it's out of warranty, so I don't see sending it to Denon as a great solution.
Thanks!
Joy
We've had out Denon 5900 since soon after it first came out (so, just over 4 years now), so it is far from a new machine, but it still produces gorgeous standard def output...when it produces at all! It's alway been a bit temperamental, rejecting disks that other player will play. But the problem seems to have gotten worse. Today, my husband tried to watch our Alias DVDs. We've watched these before, but not in a while. They are full factory versions (not just burned DVDs, which have actually given us LESS problems but at least would be somewhat understandable) that have not given us problems, but the DVD player just gives us "Disk Error." My husband estimates it won't play perfectly good disks 10% of the time, and he's ready to chuck it out the window. Now, this was a $2k machine when we bought it. So, if we just get rid of it now, that's $500/year. That's not OK with me, especially when we were looking to invest in a Blu-Ray player soon. Plus, I am not willing to deal with any standard def output less gorgeous than what I'm used to from the 5900!
We have the most recent firmware. We can't think of what else to do. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution? I did a search but I didn't find anything. Obviously, it's out of warranty, so I don't see sending it to Denon as a great solution.
Thanks!
Joy