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In Reply to: Anyway to defeat the AUTO-OFF on a Denon 1600? posted by Chris Garrett on May 02, 2003 at 12:24:33:
My DVD3300 does it too...
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...has the auto-shut-off feature. Matsushita (Panasonic and Technics) has incorporated that feature into most, if not all, of its DVD players over the past few years.
DVD lasers have a finite lifetime...My Sony does it, too, I just turn it on and play a CD before I use the DVD player to give it a bit of warmup time...
I know the light output from the laser will drop over time.
And the device will break down eventually.At least our lasers outlive our drive mechanisms. :)
I thought about buying a used Theta Carmen a few weeks ago... My dealer is a Theta dealer, and he advised me to be careful of hours of usage on it. Apparently, the Carmen lasers are only specced for about 1000 hours of use. And the problem is that whenever a DVD menu is playing, the laser is on... So watching a movie and falling asleep with the menu on killed alot of their customer's Carmens :(
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