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My only comment is: this is a servo mechanism. As such it will display strange behaviours when it stops working (ie cannot self-correct by repositioning and maximising the signal for a track). Right, Kevin?

I'm sure it's a function of how many bots are attacking us. Speaking for myself, I know there were huge runs about 1 month ago (around 25/2) but that might be different for someone else such as our hoster which is somewhere in the USA.

The standard RM-MC38EL should work. Maybe if you dream about it you can wake up with an idea of what to do. I'm stumped. However the middle bit looks like the NH900's.

Limp means it's not electrical, i think. Take a look at page 50 of the NH900 service manual. The others will surely all be similar.

I can't offer help on this model, but i recall something similar with an NH700. You'll have to take it apart. Inside the lid the switch board is probably secured with a couple of screws. We're hampered here by not having an exploded diagram from the service manual, but you might benefit from the fact that these designs kindof evolved... yours being a later one than said NH700. Not much use but don't panic yet. Kind regards Stephen

The other thing that changed recently is the effectiveness of Chromecast (and I am sure the many clones). I am away from home this week, and for the first time I am able to blast my videos from home (not copied, but via the internet) directly on to the TV there. So if you have a phone that will get the content you need, maybe this is enough. Once again, this is not a property of the TV, but the fact that you can reliably plug in a device which catches your casts from portable device(s).

Very kind of you but I think 6 years later this guy is probably long gone. He only ever came to the site in 2019.

Sure. But if you are having trouble with software that browses the internet on that particular date it seems not unreasonable to ascribe to a common cause. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with your hardware. I have Sony TVs from the last 20 years and both sport access to things "out there" (eg music sites that are long gone) and no longer do any of those extra things.

There's a kerfuffle of sorts relating to Firefox's root certificate expiring on 14th March. https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/mozilla_certificate_update/ Was your problem beginning exactly then? It's not clear to me that Sony ever used anything from Mozilla - but what do I know? Seems a bit of a coincidence..... If it were me, I would stop relying on anything baked into your TV (and updates thereto) and get a real computer (for example a Raspberry Pi if you cannot stand working with Windoze) to drive the TV screen

Great Did you press the NetMD button to turn on NetMD? If they show up in SonicStage (on the PC pane, not the MD pane) as non-transferable, it's most likely due to some copy protection. If you run the System Conversion Tool, you might be able to remove it. What format are you trying to transfer? I would be inclined to get hold of Sound Forge and look at the files. If they are unreadable by SF, they are definitely encrypted. If you find they are readable, maybe you have to change the file format (honestly, easier with SF than with SonicStage) to something that can be transferred. If your format is something that NetMD does NOT understand (Hi-MD, LPCM, MP3) Sonicstage is supposed to convert before sending to NetMD device. Maybe that is not happening, if the temporary directory SS is trying to use cannot be accessed (non-existent or bad permissions)?

Not sure about WMDP. But NetMD was never designed to transfer FROM the device to the PC. The fact that someone has done it is quite wonderful. If you don't follow the WMDP route, you have the following choices: 1. Play back through the optical port or the coax port (both S/PDIF) and capture the result in your sound card using simple Windows tools. So, not a transfer, only a recording. 2. Buy or borrow an MZ-RH1. 3. (if there are a very few precious files) Send the disk to someone who has an RH1. Sorry!

Well done! Generally, though, when the belt is dead or dying, the mechanism will do *something*, not just sit there.

BTW, I think a lot of trouble arises from the idea of "HDMI passthrough". I have an AV receiver which even in standby mode passes the last connected source to the projector. I wonder if this might be related to your problem, ie the power-saving settings on the PC?

I have way too much MD "junk" already. I assume you found it on yahoo.jp, there is another one for sale right now.

And they could fix a 19 year old unit? Impressive.