Posted by d on 01/22/06 17:58

I often have problems with discs freezing up and/or
showing a lot of distortion, like lines of squares across
the screen. The same disc will play okay on some
machines, but screw up on others. Cleaning the
heads with a brush stlye disc cleaner seems to help
for a little while sometimes. Sometimes running water
over the disc then wiping it dry will help. Is it a static
electricity problem? Or is there dirt on the laser that
the brush won't get off? Or a combination of such
things? Is it possible to open a DVD player and clean
the laser, like we can do on a VCR? Or is the best
thing to replace a DVD player when it won't play discs
consistently any more?

Thanks for any help!
David

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