Posted by Paul Heslop on 04/22/06 16:29

"R. Kannan" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a four year old JVC S500BK DVD player which works fine on DVD Video
> discs. But I got a few DVD-R discs on questionable media recently which are
> giving me problems.
>
> Movies freeze up after about an hour of playing. When I try the same DVD-R
> the next day and start at the point where I left off, I can get it to play
> for another hour beyond the point. Some of the discs do not play beyond the
> point. The disc is warm after playing for an hour.
>
> Looks to me like this player is highly sensitive to imperfections and the
> heat has something to do with it.
>
> Any input is appreciated.
>
> TIA

Not sure any more can be said than you have said yourself. Sounds like
a good machine getting long in the tooth and hitting some bad media.
Of course you could try lens cleaning, which may help or try the discs
elsewhere just to see how other machines react to them but that
probably proves nothing.

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