Help me for cyberhome CH-dvd 300 dead

Um, toss it and buy an HD DVD player?


(Trying to veer this on topic).

The CH-300 sold on black Fridays in the US for $19.99, I bought two. It wasn't a bad player in it's day but wouldn't play RW discs so I sold both mine. Others like the newer CH-320 because it plays a wide variety of computer burnt DVDs often better than big names like Sony etc.

In the US it's certainly not worth fixing, but I believe the OP resides somewhere else where they might fix things instead of tossing them out like in the US.

I don't have a solution for the OP other than to maybe look at the power supply electrolytic capacitors. They're a big fault in many electronics devices of the age of the Cyberhome. Look for any bulging or leaking caps near where the power plug attaches in the main unit.

I'm assuming the HD DVD reference was a joke referring to the age of the little Cyberhome

I have a Terrapin TT-1800DVD which is the exact same model, if you want.

Actually ... not exactly the same. It works ...

I hope you didn' t throw it away by now.


I have one of these I got used, tried it for the first time last night when I wanted to watch an off-region PAL DVD. I got the same behavior, the power light changes color when you press a switch but nothing happens.


I figured I had nothing to lose so I took it apart. There is a fuse inside, but mine was intact and jumping it made no change. I didn' t see any obvious damage. I took mine completely apart, lots of screws and I took the front bezel off the tray too (not sure if it was necessary). The only thing connecting the unit to the power supply was a four pin cable, red/black/black/yellow.


This connector is exactly the same as a PC floppy disk power connector. I jumpered mine using bits of wire from a spiral bound notebook, but I bet you could just pull out the cable and connect your floppy power connector directly to the unit (I'll have to try that). Also, you just have to take the cover off to do this, not take it apart completely like I did.


Anyway I got to watch my movie! I just hooked it up to an old computer I had, but a separate, older AT style power supply (versus modern ATX) would work better. Those had a mechanical power switch on them.


I was searching on the web for a fix to the power supply board when I found this post, so I thought I'd put this information out there.


(Okay, I should get an award for the most craptastic DVD player on the AVS Forum for this.)

Interesting fix, I knew many times the cheaper no-name players/recorders used PC drives but I didn't realize that extend to the power supply