Posted by Jaime M. de Castellvi on 11/30/06 02:03

As it isn't really practical to reply to each and every one of y'all
kind souls who have pitched in essentially reinforcing one another's
experience, I thought I'd reply to one and I chose JoeBloe because he
went to the effort of posting thrice, but please let it be understood
that I am thankful to y'all for posting.


On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:27:32 -0800, JoeBloe
<joebloe@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:07 -0500, Jaime M. de Castellvi
><3cjmd@comcast.net> Gave us:
>
>> Got started on a second one... bang!
>>Another screen-freezing defective disk.
>
> Do you restart the disk to see if the "freeze" occurs in the same
>place each time?

Yup, several times, to be absolutely sure. I even turn the player off
to reset it, and take the disk out and put it back in.

>>Maybe it has to do with the fact that I always purchase box sets and
>>one single bad disk will usually render the entire box set bad, but
>>does anybody else find what seems an unusual proportion of defective
>>disks in their purchases from them?
>
> What brand and model of player do you use? Also give its age and
>the region you are in as environmental conditions are also a factor.
>
> I suspect your player more than the discs as getting a functioning
>disc on a subsequent set does not mean that the other disc was bad if
>your player is in marginal calibration.

It's a Toshiba dual DVD/VCR player I picked up when I was finally able
to save enough for a DVD player, three and a half years ago. Doesn't
seem like it's that old so it is a bit disturbing to think it could be
the player. Nonetheless, based upon the joint accumulated experience
of just about everyone who has posted here (except for a trolling
young man) setting the record straight, and upon the fact that I am
clearly the extreme statistical oddity, I have no choice but to
conclude that the player is the thing.

Short-term fix (hopefully)? I just got myself one of those head/lens
cleaning disk, we'll see if it does any good. Long term solution will
obviously be to replace my machine as soon as I can save enough to
splurge for one (yeah, I know that I can get plain DVD players real
cheap now, but if I'm going to go to the trouble of replacing my
machine, I figure I might as well finally go for one of those dual
VCR/DVD player-writer, now that they're coming down in price). After
that, I'll continue to buy from DeepDiscountDVD, only with
considerably greater peace of mind. And I'll be very glad to save
their excellent customer service department the undeserved trouble
that I must have apparently been causing them.

Now, I notice from your other post that you advocate not using *any*
DVD cleaning products whatsoeve, and I don't see anybody disagreeing
with you so farr. What about DVDs that are already scratched? Do you
find that those DVD repair thingies any good or are they also a total
waste of money?

Cheers,

Jaime

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