My RCA DRC 220 will not read any DVD. It will spin up at first then stop and say "No Disk". The puzzling thing is that it will read and play a music CD with no problem. I have tried unpluging it in an effort to reset it but with no change. Is there another way to force a reset? Is there anything I can do to fix this before I toss it in the trash? The bad thing is that I have only watched maybe 4 movies on it.

Randy, February 2005

As hilarious as this may sound, I actually tried the oil from the nose trick and it worked. Not a silly notion at all! Now my wife and I can watch Gladiator!

R.C from VA, June 2013

I had the same problem. It would read really cheap movies sometimes but wouldn't "catch" to play other movies. My husband seems to have fixed it by pushing the screen up- somehow it secured the spinner better??? At any rate, it's working better now.

Angie, January 2009

My RCA wouldn't get out of it's "Load" mode and wouldn't play either, so, I tried John's remedy, above, got the old nose greased up, applied as directed and it's working perfectly. Great advice!

JDK 52, March 2006

You might want to try two things. The first is fairly conventional and requires that you run a lens cleaning disc in the system. Since your player will play CDs without a hitch it should spin through the "clean" cycle. The second advice might sound a bit weird, but I have a Sony player that will refuse a DVD from time to time and it works for it. CDs and DVDs are generally read from the inside of the disc to the outer edge (the opposite of the old vinyl albums). Sometimes the laser has a hard time focusing on that first critical track of a DVD and a little "fuzziness" seems to help. The oil found on either side of your nose (I told you it was a bit weird) removed with the tip of your pinky and spread around the circular hole on your DVD will often make the first track "catch" as the laser refocuses rather than refuses the disc. If that doesn't work I could always buy your remote for my player!

john, February 2006