Camper Van TV/DVD Not Working - Can I Fix it? 

Nah, D is for DVD and C is for Compact Disc (CD)

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!

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!

I'm not one who normally yells at videos but I definitely said "IT GOES RIGHT THERE" so many times

Try using the USB port in DVD mode. It may be integrated with the DVD player module. Great video by the way

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.

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 😂😂😂

ShOcK & AWE. You R InVINCEable (but don't let that go to your head)

I've tweaked a few at Repair Cafes with good results but did the unscientific "clockwise for more" and it's worked.

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.

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

Just don't punch them like I do lol

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 😢

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

Thank you! Love your videos! Can you do more around the house fixes? I enjoyed those

The slanted capacitor CE89 at @8:01 looks like it is bulging.

Wow The lost room, loved that series, too bad they didn't do more

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 C potenciometer is for adjusting CD power and D is for DVD. Playstation 2 lasers are made that way so I guess its common.

The Common Interface is for CI Modules (PCMCIA), so you can Watsh Pay TV or like in England "Free to View" Programmes.

I spotted where it supposed to be trying to tell you through the screen lol. Great video by the way. 👍

Lost Room was a good show, just wish they did more seasons

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

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

Really great job on this one Vince! I was shocked when it actually worked. Very entertaining video. Thanks!!

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

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.

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.

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

Nice fix Vince

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. 🙂

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.

Looks like an ideal monitor with that variety of ports for testing stuff like retro consoles.

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.

maybe USB is used for firmware upgrades, too

Take care of your eyes Vince staring at lasers 😵‍💫. Regarding the fault maybe vibration from viewing on the move knocked out the adjustment?

Those diodes were replacing a fuse. F1 on the silkscreen.

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 😂😂😂

2 lasers 1 for audio 1 for DVD.

These tvs are definitely still in demand. Infact most 12v tvs are

I was going with a region check chip had blown or something

Love your videos... always a pleasure to hear your intro music.

Nice, loved this one. Also included the most used soundtrack on this channel: Unloading the dishwasher :p

Nice complete kit that TV thing! I'm calling it a fix too! :') Thanks again for sharing!

If the dvd player in it has been made region free... I.E. region 0 it could play through, the warning in ALL languages or "get stuck" depending on how the dvd has been mastered. Try different companies DVDs

Thanks for the videos Vince, having my tea watching this

Love you videos Vince keep it up 🎉

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.

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 😊😁

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.

You cannot break copyright while watching things upside down 😁

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?)

Let's get Vince to 1 million subscribers everyone. He does great repair videos which are always fun and entertaining.

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.

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.

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.

In the years before USB became mainstream. Laptops would have PCMCIA ports. Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. The cards that wenmt into these ports could be for anything really including Wifi, interfaces and more. Mainly seen on older laptops as stated, the cards could be swapped out on the fly. No point in them now so.... You will have seen PCMCIA card slots when you were younger Vince, on laptops, you just have forgotten about them or were not paying any attention to laptops back then for whatever reason.

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.

PCMCIA "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"

The one you called PCMCIA is probably the Conditional Access slot for a Cam module. The cam module can be changed for different Conditional Access smartcards. Mainly freesat in the UK. In Europe there are cams for most of the satellite providers. Great vids BTW 👍🏻

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!! 😂

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. : }

The lost roooomm!! It was one of the best series I've ever watched in mid 2000's.

high voltage board for the CCFL Backlight tubes

you should never use a console for playing films, they are not designed to give the best image recreation. my £80 Bluray player is far better than my PS4 for image quality

The PCMIA card allows you to watch cable TV without a cable box, all you need is a live cable port and an RF cable and you can tune the TV through the card.

All those ports.... probably brings up the price a bit. PC card and SD.. cool

I had a similar tv with a built in dvd player that didn't work, I didn't care at all since i stream movies or use blur ray. The main problem however is the tv is bright pink. Out of boredom I tried to fix it, took it apart and got the stuck dvd out followed by a coin one of my nieces had probably stuck in the slot and it worked fine. Total disappointment for someone trying to find and fix a problem after watching videos like this one.

PCMCIA might for digital broadcasted stations like a dish or the modern digital airial TV broadcast.

I can guarantee you them kids tried to shove a DS game into the SD slot.

a PCMCIA card was used in old laptops from the 80's and 90's

I have dvd players that can't read newer dvds the firmware might not support that particular dvds menu options.

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

Vince is he camping tv did not play the disc because it looks like the disk that you were playing was a blue ray disk on a DVD. Player

Can't understand why you didn’t try the 2nd DVD in the faulty machine?

Cool

Does this mean the next big project is a camper van restoration? /s

Nice one. I used to fix drives all the time this way. They usually last awhile

I would have put a little hot glue on that pot as it looks to be loose causing the problems after the vehicle it was in has gone over a few pot holes etc..

Usually there are two laser diodes, one for CD and one for DVD, and they are labeled here C and D

I would love one of those, but they're all collection only or silly prices on ebay :(

The SD card slot appears to have come from the DVD mechanism.

Camper. Van. TV. Dvd not. Working. Can. l. Fix. It

could have just moved if its been rattling about in a caravan

The pcmcia is NOT a pc card slot. It's for a decoder.

Sorry @Tronicsfix Vince didnt mean @8:45

25:26 i think its actually pronounced Shams'sa Al Suwaydi

MMV: fixing stuff from cash conversters ME: we are going to cashies if you dont know this is a dankpods refernce

May last a good while if the laser current was only a bit to low

lol cash converters (only real people can guess this)

It's for to put a card into to pay some more Chanels 9:20

You should replace the Lazer and region free

it was acually a usb s connector you was plugging in not a port

is it blue ray compatible or just DVD?

Great video thank you for sharing!!!

iv got spars lasers for the tv DVD

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.

PCMI memory cards were used on PDAs, personal digital assistants, and professional grade digital cameras up to about 15 to 20 years ago.

the 2 diodes protect from reverse polarity ?