Disk stuck in Recorder- FYI

[eyequit]

I have a Cyberhome CH-DVR 1500 for less than a week now. Was playing with a RW disk recorded from it in my pc. Was trying to capture it to hard drive and somehow it wrote back to my disk without me knowing (after I got the disk out, placed it in the computer and saw it wrote to it).

I then put it back into the recorder and READING came up and never went away. Would not give me my disk back, trying ever way possible I could think of, which included trying to pry the door open just short of breaking it. Decided I was going to tear the unit apart to get my disk back. I didn’t care if I broke the darn thing because Wal-Mart was gonna eat it as mad as I was.

Wish to share short cut for the brave soles that need to remove the cover for disk removal. My steps were a little more involved for first time.

1. Power off
2. Remove cover
3. Unhook ribbon cable to DVD recorder
4. Power on
5. Place finger around front part of recorder and find eject button (mine was on the left side facing rear of recorder with just enough room to get finger into)
6. REMOVE DISK!!! After opening
7. Turn power off
8. Reinstall ribbon cable
9. Place cover back on
10. Now she works again

I duplicated this twice before I put the cover back on since I screwed up 2 disks the same way. Then I erased the RW in my computer, stuck it back into the DVD recorder. Then erased it in the recorder and she works fine.

Also very interesting inside it, almost looks like any IDE DVD Recorder would work in it, but I am not gonna try that yet.

[adam]

Look just under the DVD tray for a tiny little hole. Its on most DVD-roms/burners and on many DVD readers on standalone dvd players and recorders as well. If there is a disk stuck in the drive, sticking something small like the end of a paperclip into the hole will force the drive to eject.

[eyequit]

Not on this stand-alone recorder Adam. The burner sits back about 1 inch with the front door panel snaps on as an extension. I looked this sucker over pretty well before I opened it up. Not a problem with the cover off. It does have a little push button eject button built onto it. This message was just to help others who might need to know.

If you open the tray, remove the DVD and get a flashlight you can see the push button switch on it. There is a slot in the bottom of the unit in which the switch might be reach(but would use plastic or wood device to try because it sits on open circuit board. But my problem as I remember it would not respond while in the READING mode. Couldn't turn it off, couldn't do any thing in that mode. Had to kill the AC to it to shut it down even. Curious if others have the button too

[rccen44]

I also have a Cyberhome CH-DVR 1500. I accidentally placed a bad DVD disc into my unit. It would not eject the disc out. I went online and found this post on your experience. I followed your directions to the letter. The button was there and everything worked just like you described. THANKS for your post.
I wonder if the unit would eject without the ribbon being unplugged. After seeing where the little button is located, I think that I would probably be able to press it with a popcicle stick, from the bottom of the unit if this ever happens again.

Thanks again