Posted by R. Kannan on 04/22/06 22:01

Paul Heslop wrote:

> "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.
>
Thanks. This seems to be a problem with JVC DVD players. I Googled and found several discussions on problems with this model

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=1082&Search=Search

and the one on a later model right here (See the review by 'BurlyNerd')

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005AY8P/104-9333822-3804764?v=glance&n=172282

May be I should look into buying newer and cheaper models that don't exhibit this problem.

Any recommendations for an inexpensive single disk progressive scan reliable DVD player?

TIA

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