LG RHT497H Hard Drive+ DVD recorder

[Turnip]

Hi Folks,

Have one of these in where machine won't eject customer's DVD-R as it keeps looking at it and makes no decision as how to progress - for hours.

Thought to manually remove the disc and try a homebrew 'North by North-West' - played no probs. Shoved in a blank DVD+R and machine asked if I wanted it initialised - I didn't, so it ejected and I replaced initial doubtful disc where it locked up again.

Probably not important, but as there were no DVB channels stored - rescanned - OK - Guess cust freaked and pressed every button - Recall my mum did after Terry Wogan took a break, way back in the 80's.

Not met an LG HDD/DVD recorder B4 but recall some Panasonic machines got into similar paddy with duff discs.

Any Thoughts ? - Chris.