Philips dv642 clicking noise

[elec999]

My brandnew philips dv642 is making a ennoying clicking sound when reading(playing) cd,dvds. Is this normal. Its a brandnew player, it seems to be region free and plays pal out of the factory, is this normal, or someone returned it before me.
Thanks

[canadateck]

Both Mine do.

[ntscuser]

Does the Philips make a clicking sound with all DVD's or only those encoded with data such as DivX files?

[MJA]

I don't understand why people buy this shitty DVD play.crappy quality,and on top of that it comes only with 3 months warranty so its not build to last for more than 6 to 8 months(I know there is some lucky owners out there).

[elec999]

It makes this ennoying clicking sound with every media.
(Last poster) There is no other divx player available, at local stores.
Thanks

[MJA]

I hope you bought extended warranty for your Philips .

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...onics&n=507846

[elec999]

I tried upgrading the firmware. And that clicking noise is still there. Is it a bad dvd player, or all of them make this noise. I can hear the noise while watching the movie really ennoying.
Thanks

[gll99]

Mine makes a faint ticking sound from the tray area when playing but I never noticed it until I checked.
I have to put my ear 6 inches from the tray to hear it. Further than that and I don't hear it. My Philips is near my computer so I haven't done that with any of my other brand players so don't know if they would be the same.

Not very likely that a firmware upgrade would have been any help. It sounds mechanical and probably normal at low volume but yours sounds extreme.

If it's that bad return it for an exchange.

[VegasBud]

I've never noticed any clicking (or any other) sound from mine, but since other people seem to have it, I just played a dvd, and even with my ear on the case, all I can hear is a faint whir, kind of like a very small fan.

[somebodeez]

No clicking sounds with my player either.

[jman98]

Mine makes the clicking sound too, but it always has. I've had it for over a year and it still works fine.

[ntscuser]

The reason I asked is that my Pioneer makes a clicking sound when playing CD's but not when playing DVD's. To the best of my knowledge that is because CD's rotate at constant speed but DVD's rotate at variable speeds.

[whitejremiah]

I don't understand why people buy this shitty DVD play.crappy quality,and on top of that it comes only with 3 months warranty so its not build to last for more than 6 to 8 months(I know there is some lucky owners out there).

Here's why, number 1, a lot of people dont use the lousy RCA connection that is where you are getting the idea of bad picture quality, as soon as you wire it up through an S-Video or better, the picture quality improves TREMENDOUSLY.....secondly there's not a whole heck of a lot of other divx compatable dvd players around, so the choices are kinda limited.......and lastly, ive known SEVERAL people that have had this dvd player for a while.....

[OSU]

Mine only makes this noise on crappy media as it attempts to find the starting point of the Divx/DVD files. Never does it on good media.