we have here a insignia blu ray/dvd and net web streaming player produced by insignia which is basically best buys in-house brand these were one of the first units set-top boxes out that could do as streaming netflix so what you you for the price he was a streaming box + blu-ray which at the time for a hundred-dollar pop for the wired
ethernet version and hundred fifty-four the one with the built-in wi-fi that was a steal considering that the time a roku was a hundred dollars for a very basic model back then original ship date on these was about july two thousand nine and functionality was actually really ended up being really limited and they never actually really produced much of
anything they ended up only giving this netflix pandora but and you're very expensive streaming movie rental service which was like ten dollars distri- free movie well suffice to say back then the blu-ray discs were also very expensive i never bought in tone 2016 now the prices on them are down you know had to have
ghostbusters and i figured i what the heck i got a 4k tv even though this is 1080p it's gonna look awesome and it does but one crowd will these units apparently have is the blu-ray / bd-rom drives had a lot of issues they would get dirty and materials were relatively cheap the disks have a lot of slippage considering this one set in the garage
for a number of years because we upgrading to a roku so yeah this one has that hereditary problem so we're gonna open it up actually it's really easy to service this which two screws on each side and then there's four screws in back just take those out phillips-head screwdriver and come out 1230 security
that's up and piece of cake so we just open this up thank gently look up that's it so get the main power board here is your means coming in that power going to the front usb port is for the blu-ray live or something went online never tried that before under here is your main processor cpu however they use i can
tell you this gets extremely hot that's another part of the problem with these units is the heatsink was way too small but it's still functional touch on that in a moment now the majority of the problem is going to be inside the rom drive now you got this cover going over if you had a disk in here you can actually part of the disc in the tray
but we don't that's a stupid idea to do with your case apart so remove the two silver screws holding that top trade top part down then you have a little pressure tabs on the side so you don't have a flat if you don't have a screwdriver something to press on them i use it possibly keep be very gentle one side once you do once i hope that the
other side just kind of pops right off now what you want to do mines already done what you want to have some cotton spot and some alcohol rockin alcohol talking about my cup isopropyl alcohol and which one do is put some on your cotton swab and use that cotton swab to swipe off this little round part of here if any kind of greasy is going on
there this part presses down on the disk from the top down to help apply pressure to the little window motor comes up next and the spindle and i really have no idea what you call it specifically there is a really poorly designed rubber pad that goes around it there's a few different options you can do and what
happens is that top of the pattern it's not just in this insignia players happens to a lot of them i know the old cyber home dvd players which one of the cheapest dvd players ever on the market at the time of dvd players a good one was maybe a hundred hundred and fifty dollars you can pick up a cyber all which was awesome easily be region hack
just like this thing for thirty bucks yeah i was unheard of the dvd player you know what that worked better than any of my ever used to anyways there's that rubber pad that's on here and the problem is it dries out once that dries out on the top and no longer grips the disc the disc the motor is going to start turning the disk it's just gonna
keep slipping and as it slips also wobbles a little bit and since it can never get up to its are correct rpm laser and the blu ray laser cannot read the disk so a few different things one that works pretty decently but it's not a real good permanent solution i found was contacts meant to represent what you do is you just put a thin layer around
and just made me really thin and then let it dry for a couple days no it's technically it's dry overnight buy it could be dry i better if you leave it dry for a few days another one that works great is if you can spread it even better now the rubber cement context meant is not a permanent
solution it will eventually wear off onto your discs but if you're just in a hurry and you have something important you how to play for family just shut the kids up to great temporary solution silicon silicon caulk weeks tremely extremely thin later and i mean really thin and then let it dry for a
few days that is pretty much a purple solutions not going to rub off on your discs but make sure it is a extremely thin layer otherwise if it's too much the discs going to be often as its spinning its going to wobble it might scratch the day you might have scratched disk above the wall
option number three i found yes i was actually able to peel the top layer of of that rubber pad off and underneath it was still very tacky and it's not the glue it little is the rubber they used was a very tacky material under there so i kept that on there once you do that take a dry cotton swab and gently swabi out your lasers if they appear dirty you
get the real tiny one is the blu-ray and the big one here is the e it's the dvd the red laser for the dvd once you're done you can replace you can replace your cover here gently and sports your two screws now if you're not comfortable and never worked on electronics for i recommend using a screwdriver instead of a cordless park
tool i have 0 patience and i worked with plenty of electronics before if you do use a according to our little spoon and screw gun go over tighten just get you know get the majority of the screwing him and then hand snug it don't have to crank it just snugging now another thing i want to touch on that should fix your playback issue now another thing i found
doesn't happen so much with the dvds but it happens considerably with blu-ray discs due to the higher bitrate dvd max bitrate 10 megabit at the highest but a blu-ray disc i've seen as high as 40 make a bit depending on the length movie and quality of the picture there's a lot of processing done by the cpu considering the age of the unit and this
thing cigarettes hot really surprised they didn't put a fan on affect my thermal camera had this well over 200 degrees fahrenheit are about a hundred degrees celsius roughly personal either they had they should have went with a larger heat sink or added some sort of fan inside this case so at the moment i've been playing the disc glorious with
the cake cover off and no issues i put the cover back on with the reduced air flow in the case i noticed that about halfway through movie it would start to skip and jump even though the disk was turning just fine and if i stop let it cool down i could resume it right where it left off no skipping and finish the movie
no problem so i'm going to figure out either going put some better heatsink paste on here but i mean this literally gets hot enough where you cannot touch it for more than a split second that it's it's pretty hot out so i'm believing that the processor or gpu that they're using is potentially overheating and then having
to throttle down a bit and at that point your movie will start to skip i suppose another solution would be to pause the movie for a few minutes and let everything cool down a bit and then resumed again but i think either a small 12-volt case fan there's plenty of space in here or your 501 could tap into the the usb usb is down here there's
actually a whole nother set second set here that you can tap the usb into was probably something for some way that you probably use that some sort of usb chip-based wi-fi chip in these units so that's about it which cover back on so desire and call today you have should have a working and sickly of the raid drive blu-ray player and don't get me
wrong even though there was some shortcomings on this unit the image quality really was phenomenal from these units very impressive actually so that's it goodnight smile cheese