Thanks for the tip, this worked for me. My Panasonic DVD RV31 was showing the H02 error message when trying to read the disk. I left a disk in the unit, unplugged it, removed the screws, plugged it in and watched. Disk did not spin, so the unit could not read it. I nudged the disk with my finger and it began spinning as it should. Pressed stop/play a few times to make sure it was working. Also blasted the internals of the unit with Dust Remover meant for keyboards/cameras/etc, then closed it up. All is well again.

Hi Nick Thanks for the advise. There are a few differences in my case: I wasn't getting the NO DISC message upon inserting discs, the DVD Player was trying to read it (Showing 0---- 00--- and back to 0---- until it gave an H02 error message). I opened up the DVD Player anyway, and what I saw was that the DVD drive was spinning (quite slowly) when I inserted a disk - as if it was having trouble reading the disc. After playing with it for a while it decided to read the disc, so I started playing the movie. The first fiew minutes of the movie played ok, and then it started to get jerky and then completely froze. The LED display on the DVD player was 'almost' blinking (I say almost because it went from bright to less bright and back, instead of on and off). Pressing STOP stopped the movie, but the display kept showing the same location (chap/min/...) in the movie, until I pressed the Eject button and the DVD Disk was ejected. I'm quite sure the H02 problem is not mechanical, I currently suspect a laser head malfunction or some other I/O function on the DVD board to have gone nuts. Unless someone find a way to fix that that I can apply myself, I will not bother with taking it to a technician, since it would be a lot cheaper just getting a new DVD player (even though I *love* this one). In any case, any help would be welcome. Regarding my previous 'solution' of turning V.S.S. off, that enabled me to read disks, but the DVD player would give up after some minutes into the movie like I described above.