Posted by Mike S. on 12/23/53 11:27

In article <1127414064.547943.157450@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<trevor_smithson@yahoo.com> wrote:
>This particular behavior only happens with certain discs. For example,
>Seinfeld season 4 discs and all of the Star Wars original trilogy
>discs. Most discs (I'd say 75%) play perfectly.
>
>With the discs that have problems, if I eject/reinsert the disc enough
>times, all of the problem discs will eventually play. Sometimes this
>means 20+ ejects/reinsertions.
>
>Anyone know if there is a setting on the player that will improve the
>disc recognition rate, or is this some kind of hardware malfunction?
>
>Also, note that the error says "discs of this type", not a region
>error. I have a couple non-region one discs that give a different
>error.

In my experience this error is generated by discs of the wrong video
standard (e.g. PAL in an NTSC player) or poorly-authored home made DVD's
that somehow violate the DVD standard.

If your player is doing this intermittently on commercial domestic DVD's
I'd say it's having problems reading them ... by your player model,
probably due to a failing laser pickup.

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