Posted by E. Barry Bruyea on 11/27/06 11:22

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:47:12 -0000, "Larry Gold"
<larry.gold14@btinternet.com> wrote:

>that will teach you for trying to copy DVDs

Gee Whiz, d'ya think?


>
>"E. Barry Bruyea" <noemail@scam.com> wrote in message
>news:46f8m2d0431kohclcvdt7kdpt5fptvfmsj@4ax.com...
>>A few days ago, my wife was in our local library and saw the Digitally
>> Remastered DVD of "Cleopatra". She checked it out because she hadn't
>> seen the movie in a very long time and thought she'd like to watch it
>> (especially without commercials). I decided to copy the DVD. I put
>> it in one of my DVD units, but the computer would not recognize that
>> there was a disk inserted. I tried several times, with no success, so
>> I put it in my DVD burner (an LG) and the same thing occurred. It was
>> a two disk set, so I tried the other one, same thing. I then put it
>> my DVD player and it played fine. I cleaned both disks and in the
>> process I noticed a 'spiraling' coming out from the centre of both
>> disks that was quite prominent. No big deal, but does anyone have any
>> idea why my player will recognize & play the DVD, but neither of my
>> computer based units would even recognize the disk. Usually, it's the
>> other way around. Also, the 'spiraling' design appears unusual.
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