DVD-R won't play anymore?

Peyton wrote on 12/11/2003, 12:43 PM
This is weird.

We've got some homemade DVDs that we watch often. They were cut on a Pioneer A05, and are DVD-Rs.

On a year-old mid-grade Sony DVD player, they have been played many times. Now, they skip, hang during playback, or pixellate and hang. That is after cleaning the player's lens with a Maxell DVD Player Lens cleaner and a Discwasher CD/DVD Lens cleaner. Before cleaning, the Sony player would claim that the disk was dirty. The Sony plays commercial disks with no problems whatsoever, both before and after cleaning. The DVDs have been cleaned by gently wiping with a cloth diaper.

On the inexpensive JVC player, the homemade disks play with no hassles at all.

Hypothesis: Can a DVD-R be worn out by frequent playing? Could frequent playing weaken the recorded signal, somehow?

Other ideas?

Baffled,
Peyton

Comments

Rogueone wrote on 12/11/2003, 1:37 PM
This may sound strange, but bear with me. My brother recently acquired a used DVD player, that wouldn't play, according to the previous owners. He adjusted the lens mechanism, and it played, but even commercial ones didn't play well. (Skipped, distortion, etc) He went back and checked, and apparently found out that the laser has an intensity setting! It was set to practically zero. He increased the intensity, and it worked fine.

So, could it be that your laser setting could have gotten out of whack? I don't know, and I certainly don't know where in the unit he found it. But maybe it's an explanation to why your discs are working in it anymore.

Rogue One
kameronj wrote on 12/11/2003, 1:41 PM
My guess it has to do with the brand of diapers you used.

In my testing...Huggies were the best. See...most people would think Pampers would come out on top - but nope....Huggies. I also had some good luck with some plain olde cloth diapers...but the cleaning service told me that the detergent they used may have adverse affects on the disc.....so I"m sticking with Huggies!!!
vitalforces wrote on 12/12/2003, 3:05 PM
OK, kameronj. I see your posts everywhere this afternoon and they're all jokes. Let me smell your breath.
craftech wrote on 12/12/2003, 8:59 PM
Sony DVD players and CD players are among the least reliable. It's been that way for quite some time. They work for awhile then start to skip on various media. Even commercial ones.

John