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Old 03-30-2019, 10:55 PM   #1
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Default Oppo 203 has started vibrating during DVD playback? :(

As the title says just today (I'm pretty sure) my Oppo has started to vibrate during DVD playback. There is no issue when playing Blu Rays.

This is my first ever premium player (I was using a launch PS3 before this) and one of the major reasons (other was Region free) I got it was for the practically silent playback so this development is depressing me greatly at the moment. I'm really at a complete loss as to why this is suddenly happening. I hadn't played many DVDs on it but I know I played at least a couple and I'm 99% sure this wasn't happening and isn't meant to. In fact if I hold the player at an angle (45-90 degrees) the vibrating stops. Again this is only happening on DVD playback, Blu Rays remain silent.

Anyone else come across this? What can I possibly do to fix this, I'm so depressed right now the player cost me a small fortune and is only abut 5 months old.

(Apologies for the emoji in the title, that was accidental)

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[UPDATE]

Okay so after looking up this sort of problem through Google I came across something I never really knew about. It turns out the vibration is due to the discs themselves. Or at least the coincidental last two discs I tried to play in my Oppo today. Apparently due to uneven printing on a discs label or maybe even an ever so slightly off center hole in the middle, this can make a disc vibrate. So the issue is just amplified on the Oppo because of how silent playback normally is. I even tried the disc , that led me to making this thread, in my Laptop drive and compared it to another disc I played in the same drive a few days ago and the difference was immediately noticeable. One disc would make the Laptop vibrate much more than the other one.

So I tested the discs on the Oppo and yeah 1 disc makes the player vibrate immediately upon startup and then the other is silent. Having learnt of this strange phenomenon I had to know how common this was because my old PS3 was super loud due to the fan so any and all vibrating I would never have noticed. So I tested a handful of 5 totally random DVDs across my collection and none caused vibration. In fact the disc 2 , from the same set as the vibrating disc, also didn't vibrate.

I'm now happy again, I mean it sucks that this disc vibrates for some reason but at least it's not the stupidly expensive player at fault. I'm now back to loving my Oppo lol. Though I guess I should say that the Oppo vibrates much louder than the Laptop which is disappointing actually so with this disc the ideal playback experience for me will have to be on Laptop or PC.

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