was watching a movie and i fell asleep and when i woke up it was turend off and when i tried turning it on all it said was f61 and now it wont turn on at all.what does that code mean what can i do to fix it

Bobbi Joy, April 2005

I no this is a old post but can you fix it yourself??? and how

rich, February 2012

my dvd plays but can not view picture

big john, May 2010

Had the same thing happen. Owned it for alittle over 2 years. F61 means error with power. Since I purchased it at Radio Shack, I took it back for repair. They said it is not repairable. Radio Shack is making a customer settlement of 120.00. Will never buy a panasonic product again. They don't standby their own products.

Dave, November 2009

power will not come on my saht650 say f61

mark, August 2009

I was getting F61s consistently on my Panasonic SA HT70 model with the power on off clicking noise. What seems to have resolved it for now is 1. unplugging power cord, 2 wait five minutes to let residual power dissapate from unit, 3. use electronic contact cleaner with thin red spray tube and spray inside each input/ouput jack in back, 4. clean each patch cord lead. 5. do same for speaker output connectors. 6. for laughs I did same to AM/FM antenna outputs. The contact cleaner has high flash and evaporates quickly. Repeated above with compressed air in can with same red tube. No problems since.

Keith, March 2006

Usually means the protection circuit has activated. Possibly missing a low voltage suppy line, due to short/open circuit component(s).

Cobweb, April 2005