Posted by Mike G on 08/27/05 18:51

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:13:36 GMT, "Johnnie Scott"
<john374999@.nospam.ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Many discs I rent which are fairly scratched always play on my standalone
>Pioneer 444 player, but if I try to watch on one of my two computers with
>NEC DVD rewriters they freeze up. This only happens with scratched discs.
>Any suggestions Please.

The NEC drives are excellent writers, but they're not particularly
good at reading discs (as you've discovered).

Personally I'd buy a DVD-ROM drive, preferably a Lite-On model, and
use the NEC drive for writing only.

--
Mike

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