DVD Problem

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Vince

Can anyone tell me why some DVD's will play in my DVD
drive and others won't.It's as if the drive can't read
them.What's the problem.
Thanks
Vince
 
Yes.It seems that all newer DVD's(within the last year)
cannot be read by my DVD drive.Everything older than that
plays perfectly.BTW I am using Power DVD.If I go into
event viewer it tells me the device (DVD drive) times out
trying to read the data.A few times my DVD drive has even
disappeared from device manager and I had to reboot for it
to show up again.Very Strange!
Vince
 
This sounds like a hardware problem. One of two things...

1. The laser and/or tracking mechanism is dirty an needs cleaning.

2. the laser unit is out of calibration.

Does it have problems with only dual layer discs, or is it with both single-
and dual layer?

Bobby
 
I don't know the difference between single & dual layer
discs.All I can say is that it happens with all newer
movies (released within the last year).BTW I did clean the
laser lens and it didn't help.Older discs play fine.I just
wondered if it had something to do with the newer
discs.Maybe some sort of copy protection so they can't be
played on computers.I don't know.
Thanks.....Vince
 
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