Audiovox 8 My Audiovox works to play video games but won't play the DVD, it keeps reading loading?? Please help, can't find manual or directions and its a nice system, made for the car and its only three year old, used maybe 5 times for movies in the car, bought it at sam's club years ago...Please help stay at home mom, trying to fix it...

Hi,

A couple of assumptions here:

• your Audiovox 8 portable DVD player can play Video CDs or Video Games but not DVDs;
• it used to be installed in a car but is currently being used at home.

• clean the lens/head/optics either with cotton buds or a CD cleaner similar to those used in CD ROMS;
• check the region of the DVDs, they may not be compatible with the unit.
• and lastly, pls check the specific model underneath the unit, if it says DPF800, then it is a Digital Picture Frame, if it says D1817, then yes it is a DVD player or something like that but would start with a "D".

The DVD that you are using may not have the correcrt region for youe audiovox that is why it cant read it, or ckdestroyer might be right about the lens not able to read the dvd anymore.

For manual try this link
http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Audiovox-manuals.html

Or if you may want to hack you audiovox to play multi region disk try this link
http://www.dvdcodes.net/newCodesAZ/codesA/audiovox/index.php

Note: read the instruction carefully or it may damage the device, use it at your own risk if successful though, you will be able to play any DVD region that is, if the lens are still working properly pior to what ckdestroyer said

Try a reset. Unplug all power and remove all batteries and let it rest for at least 30 minutes. Then power up again.

If all fails, it is most likely the laser diode inside the optical pickup has become too weak to recognize the digital signals on a disk.

So you're saying that already tried a lot of DVD but none of them is working? but this was working fine before is that right?