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following your instuctions to remove bottom plastic cover, got to removing the dvd player where you say push pin in hole to open dvd player, the player opens, but the rest of the player will not budge from the hole no matter how hard I pull, help
Is your DVD player bent in any way, shape or form? If not, try doing the pinhole release one more time but push as hard as you can into the pinhole. That way if for some reason the release button is stuck it will become unstuck. Just my two cents.