Identifying BD/HD optical pickup

[Sam Goldwasser]

Can anyone identify a make and model for this pickup and/or player or burner
this may have originated?

The only markings on the PCB are "BD/HDP" and rev.

http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/hddvd1.jpg

Thanks!

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[Sam Goldwasser]

Will this be on the quiz next week?

Quiz is today.

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[Tim Schwartz]

Can anyone identify a make and model for this pickup and/or player or burner
this may have originated?

The only markings on the PCB are "BD/HDP" and rev.

http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/hddvd1.jpg

Thanks!

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Sam,

As the drive professes to be an HD-DVD capable drive, and is from
February 2006, I would take a GUESS at a Toshiba. I find the twin
lenses an interesting design. I'm assuming one is for the HD-DVD and
the other is for DVD and CD?

Regards,
Tim Schwartz
Bristol Electronics

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

Ok is the sled out of a BenQ drive?

Sorry, it's your quiz. Seriously, I don't know and would like to
find out. Or, more precisely, someone asked me and would like to
find out! Someone suggested it might be from a Sumsung player but
I don't have much confidence in that statement.

Thanks.

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[Sam Goldwasser]

As the drive professes to be an HD-DVD capable drive, and is
from February 2006, I would take a GUESS at a Toshiba. I find the
twin lenses an interesting design. I'm assuming one is for the HD-DVD
and the other is for DVD and CD?

Yes. If I recall, the DVD/CD part uses a hologram laser pickup with
a very simple optical path. On the underside photo:

http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/hddvd1.jpg

the CD/DVD path is from the turning mirror near the top going
left to the hologram laser hidden by the copper "T".

Although there are two lenses (and I have since found another BD pickup
with twin lenses), it does make many other issues much simpler to deal
with. And possibly cheaper.

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[Sam Goldwasser]

Oh I though you knew and were trying to educate

I do that also.

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Can anyone identify a make and model for this pickup and/or player or burner
this may have originated?

The only markings on the PCB are "BD/HDP" and rev.

http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/hddvd1.jpg

Thanks!

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Awe, geez I feel like a putz It is a PS3 Blu-Ray pickup - assuming
that is the one I sent you ? I seem to recall in my, "hooray, he
fixed my Argon" euphoria some question from you - and I don't think
(obviously, now ) that I answered you. Sorry, Sam ! Let me know
if you need pinout info, current, etc !

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

Awe, geez I feel like a putz It is a PS3 Blu-Ray pickup - assuming
that is the one I sent you ? I seem to recall in my, "hooray, he
fixed my Argon" euphoria some question from you - and I don't think
(obviously, now ) that I answered you. Sorry, Sam ! Let me know
if you need pinout info, current, etc !

It's not the same as the one you sent. The one you sent IS a PS2
pickup like the one at the top of this page:

http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/Blu-ray/site1/optics.html

The unknown pickup is the one further down the page.

It may indeed be compatible or a replacement, but it's not the usual
one that I'm familiar with.

Thanks!

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It's not the same as the one you sent. The one you sent IS a PS2
pickup like the one at the top of this page:

http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/Blu-ray/site1/optics.html

The unknown pickup is the one further down the page.

It may indeed be compatible or a replacement, but it's not the usual
one that I'm familiar with.

Thanks!

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Oh boy...just adding up those putz points, aren't I ? Okay - I'll
hazard a guess at it - could it be a Blu-Ray burner sled ? Where did
it come from - as in...what bargain price was paid for it (if you
know ?) I see loads of PHR-803T sleds (HD 2X player and X-Box <older
type> HD drive replacement sleds) available out there, but I have one
in front of me right now, and that pic is definitely NOT that
type...and it is not a PS3 type, like I sent you - so the field is
narrowing down quite nicely Do you have any way to take a few
more pics of it from differing angles ? Wish I could be more help,
other than to ask more questions

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

Oh boy...just adding up those putz points, aren't I ? Okay - I'll
hazard a guess at it - could it be a Blu-Ray burner sled ? Where did
it come from - as in...what bargain price was paid for it (if you
know ?) I see loads of PHR-803T sleds (HD 2X player and X-Box <older
type> HD drive replacement sleds) available out there, but I have one
in front of me right now, and that pic is definitely NOT that
type...and it is not a PS3 type, like I sent you - so the field is
narrowing down quite nicely Do you have any way to take a few
more pics of it from differing angles ? Wish I could be more help,
other than to ask more questions

It's quite possibly a burner - that is how it was supposedly originally
advertised on eBay. Then the seller backtracked and said it wsa from
a player. I have no idea, this is third hand info. I could take more
pics from other angles, but the top really should be distinctive. I
don't know what's missing from the bottom but assume there's a boatload
of circuitry that isn't there.

I have another dual-lens BD/HD pickup that I haven't photographed.
But it's distinctly different.

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