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Originally Posted by bgadow
A belt goes bad and the stylus doesn't move, or doesn't move far, and so it just keeps repeating that same section. That's what happened with mine. I still don't have it right, as it skips a lot. The belts I have are not really right.
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Yep, that's what'll happen. A new servo drive belt should fix the stuck/repeat-cycling problem, but, yeah, those belts do seem a bit touchy. Try running the rapid access/search buttons forward and back to make sure the mechanism is running correctly.
However, if your player is skipping a lot (almost always in a forward direction, not just jumping backwards and repeating the same small segment) and has generally 'noisy' video-- *and* it happens on all discs-- then I'd tend to suspect the stylus. My first CED player was a Hitachi-made Sears model that had a rather worn stylus when I got it. I didn't have a replacement stylus for it, but there was a trimmer pot on the "arm" that controlled the pre-amp gain; turning that up greatly reduced the skipping and reduced video noise, but that was a temporary solution.
I've noticed though that some discs just seem to skip a *lot* the first time they're played in a long while. On subsequent plays, though, they'll work fine with few or no skips. [The CED Magic site (
www.cedmagic.com) refers to this phenomenon as "video virus" on its FAQ page.]