CD 796 Recorder - Trays locked

[marvelousmarvin62]

Hello Everybody, Does anybody know how I can unlock the trays to my Philips CD Recorder? They suddenly went into lock mode several months ago and niether the supplier, manufacturer or designated repair centre have been able to help.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Marvelousmarvin62

[marvelousmarvin62]

A friend of mine has now resolved this problem for me.

You power off then power back on while holding down the fast forward and rewind buttons on the recording side simultaneously. The display moves through a sequence of numbers and the trays will then open.

Thanks to everyone who looked at my question.

marveloumarvin62

[lasergrap]

Hi yas Marvin

You sir are a star

I have been searching for 6 months to try and get my unit unlocked and no one could help not the dealers not Phillips no one

And then on here you have the answer posed and its worked in one

I am well impressed guys keep up the good work.

Best regards

Laser Stu

[mikekilah]

does any one know what type of blank cd's work best with this make.. have tried loads and it keeps telling me WRONG CD..

[hech54]

http://www.verbatim.com/subcat/optical-media/cd/music-cd-r/

[jman98]

does any one know what type of blank cd's work best with this make.. have tried loads and it keeps telling me WRONG CD..

Follow hech54's post. I want to warn you that it's hard to find those CDs that CD recorders use so if you really must use it, buy up a lot of discs while you can. If you don't use those CDs that specifically say "Music" on them they won't work. "Normal" CD blanks intended for PCs won't work. This is because the music CDs cost extra because royalties were paid on them (they are not paid on "normal" CD blanks) and the manufacturers designed the recorders to only burn to the special discs that royalties were paid on.

[hech54]

I'm still surprised there has been no computer solution to this problem after all these years. Surely somebody should have come up with software to insert a normal CD into a computer drive and a few seconds later spit out a "music" CD-R to fool the recorders.

[classfour]

Audio CDs have the digital coding specified by the recording industry. I suspect the disc itself if identical or very similar to data CDs.

It can be aggravating locating the things, I did manage to grab a 10 set of Audio CD-RWs for use in my Toshiba CD recorder, and had located the same type of media for a Terapin VCD recorder years ago (crap product).

[hech54]

The Terapin used regular data CDs for creating VCDs. I owned one...a red one.

[classfour]

I've owned 3 of the dam*ed things - there was a caveat on their website regarding using "consumer" CD-Rs and CD-RWs, it even says so in the manual. Research "consumer CD-R and CD-RW".

[classfour]

I know the Terapins would burn on data CDs - the manufacturer would ask if the only media used was audio CDs when the drive failed...which they did. Terapin would blame the failure on using the wrong media.

The drives were crap on them, anyway - It amazed me the difference between the Terapin and the first Panasonic E-20 that I bought (and still use). The Panny is built like a tank, the Terapin was a MIS piece of crap.

[jman98]

Audio CDs have the digital coding specified by the recording industry. I suspect the disc itself if identical or very similar to data CDs.

This is correct. PCs actually can write to those discs fine. Maybe there is something in the disc leadout or some sort of manufacturing code that the old CD recorders have to see to write to the disc. I bought a CD recorder many years ago before I had a PC at home (maybe 12 years ago) and I've still got a few CD-RW discs for it. I've used a PC to erase them when the recorder was being bitchy and then re-used them without problems in the recorder. I still use the old recorder on rare occasions as a way to record LPs (not everything is on CD or available on iTunes) to CD-RW and then rip those discs to my PC where I can de-noise them or put them through any kind of necessary processing.