Fix That DVD Player

Here at Pat and Kat central we try to be sustainable. We recycle, although not as thorough as some. We try to keep energy consumption down, although not as much as others. The point is that we try to do the right thing.

The other day our cheap-o Panasonic DVD player stopped working. The power light would blink and that was it. No eject. No nothing. Just blinking. Less than optimal for a DVD player. The good news is that if you google for the model and the problem you find out that you have a blown capacitor. If you, or a good friend, have a soldiering iron, you are about $0.10 away from fixing your DVD player and saving some space in a landfill.

The good news is that our DVD player is fixed. The bad news is that I bet a lot of these relatively easy to fix problems are going unfixed due to the disposable nature of electronics today.