Moaning player

[Hunding]

My Panasonic S-27 moans and groans for 30-60 seconds when reading a disk. It started doing it a couple of months ago. Once it reads the disk, it works fine. This happens on about half the disks I put in and sometimes on disks it had no trouble with before. Is there a simple repair?

[redwudz]

I suspect the bearings on the player could be wearing out and unless the discs are perfectly balanced, you may be getting more noise. Some DVD players/burners rev up to do the initial read of the disc, but most ones like that do that from day one. I had one that sounded like a airplane taking off. But if you are getting no read errors, it may not be a problem, at least yet.

And welcome to our forums.

[usually_quiet]

My Panasonsic DVD recorder used to moan like that too, and over time, it became worse. It turned out I just needed to clean the spindle on the DVD drive. If you can open up your player, the following thread has instructions for cleaning the spindle:

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic346729.html

[Hunding]

Thanks very much, redwundz and usually-quiet. I'll try cleaning it as that thread suggests.

[samijubal]

I think the S-27 still used a DC brush spindle motor. If so, it's about to go and you'll get the dreaded H07 error soon.