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Q. Why DVDs do not play on all players?
A. It could be either the dvd is manufactured out of spec, or the player is out of spec, or the player has a very low tolerance to "out of spec" DVDs (the very high end players)
Q. Why would a replaced disc work, whereas the first disc did not?
A. In most cases, we find that the first disc may have been scratched or damaged, (DVDS are very very delicate and small scratches and dust do cause immense playability problems). Normal handling, keeping it face down, loose discs in the boxes, fingerprints etc. can cause skips, freezes and jumps.
Lately majority of recently manufactured DVDs I bought, they work on some players and not on others at all ?? DVDs are fresh from sealed box and no scratch even under microscope. One indication I get among problematic discs is that when trying to load/ read, it keeps on making ticking noise on some players, loud buzzing noise on some and on some players, it just spits out the disc. Could it be a balancing or warped-disc problem ??
DVDs that I bought a few Yrs back, play fine on all players. May be 1 or 2 % or not even that (from old batches), that had this problem.
Could it be that new DVD media is not compatible with old DVD drives ??
For DVD-Rs, I know older PC DVD drives don't recognize 16X discs. Could it be something similar for manufactured DVD videos ??
Any insight, any one ??
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Mods: This problem/ topic is here to stay. Could we please make this a sticky thread. Thanks.
