Posted by gassyal on 02/27/07 06:45

Hi group:

I have a followup to my original posting (partially shown below).

I took the damaged DVD movie to work today to show to one of our
Information Systems person.

He looked at the disc and said that the disc was NOT scratched by the
DVD player in my laptop.

What he found was that some oil type material was splattered on the
inner rings of the DVD. He removed this material with a small amount
of alcohol on a soft rag and the DVD worked OK in his laptop.

My question now is where did this oil type material come from?

Was it squirted on the DVD from somewhere in the DVD player? Was
there lots of heat in the laptop body that caused the oil type
material to come from somewhere and be splattered on the DVD.

This is all very odd and I continue to request your comments.

Regards,
Al Gershen
Grants Pass, OR
gassyal@hotmail.com


On Feb 25, 9:04 pm, "gassyal" <gass...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Environment: Compaq R4000 laptop running Windows XP Home with
> players: InterVideo WinDVD 5 and Windows Media Player 10
>
> Hi group:
>
> I bought a used copy (disc examined and it had NO noticeable scratches
> in it) of the X-Files Movie and was running it on my laptop in the
> InterVideo player.
>
> I watched the Bonus Feature in the disc (about how the movie was made,
> etc.) and started to watch the movie. I got an error message saying
> that the InterVideo player did not support DTS multichannel audio on
> the disc.
>
> I shut down the InterVideo player and turned on the Windows Media
> Player. To my surprise, the disc was not read by that player.
>
> I opened Windows Explorer to look at the disc and nothing came up.
>
> The movie disc now was not being read by the DVD player.
>
> I removed the disc and looked at it. It had between 15 and 20
> scratches extending vertically from the inside ring outward toward the
> outside of the disc.
>
> (Snipped)
>

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