XPost: sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In sci.electronics.repair, on Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:02:30 +0100, "Carlos   
   E.R."  wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-01-26 18:02, micky wrote:   
   >>   Why do they have this button (that made my DVDR work when it was   
   apparently dead) if they're going to keep it   
   >> secret?   
   >   
   >To charge for the repair. Yes, I have seen this before, in some   
   >expensive machine. They told us in training about the secret reset button.   
      
   That's incredible. (well, not really, since I believe you, so it must be   
   credible.)   
      
   Where was this training, in the US or Spain?   And if they tell people   
   like you, what prevents the people they tell from telling everyone else?   
   I guess they have to tell someone or it wouldn't be of any value, but   
   I'd think they'd be worried everyone not doing repairs would be annoyed   
   when they heard about this.   
      
   What made it break when it did, about 15 years after I bought it.  Is it   
   on a timer?   Will it break again in another 15 years?   Or maybe it's   
   operational time, not calendar time.   For maybe 10 years I recorded 3   
   hours a day and played back 3 hours a day. plus some more time watching   
   what wasn't recorded.  3 or 4 years I left it running (and the hard   
   drive spinning I guess) 4 or 5 days of the week.   So it was running for   
   5 or 6 years total, I think.  That's not very much imo, compared to 15   
   years elapsed time.   
      
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