XPost: sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair
From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2025-01-27 17:34, micky wrote:
> 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?
Both :-)
It was an international USA company. I'm not going to say the culprit,
that product seems to be still active (which surprises me). Ah, no, the
current supplier says it is EOL.
:-D
> 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.
Who knows. But my guess is that any machine that has some sort of
computer inside must have some reset method.
--
Cheers, Carlos.
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
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