On 21/09/2019 2:15 a.m., Tony Langdon : August Abolins wrote:>
-=> On 09-21-19 03:48, August Abolins wrote to Dave Drum <=-
>

> AA> Are those your own burned CDs or DVDs? My commercial CD
> AA> collection from when I first started buying those things
> AA> in the 80s, still play beautifully.

> CDs, I haven't had issues with, but a lot of store bought DVDs have
> failed over the past 10 years.  They have no visible defects, and
> cleaning them generally doesn't help. :(

Have you tried the same DVDs on a newer machine?  An older machine could start
developing problems tracking, among other things too.

I have an older LG player (with a hdd for recording) and it can take its time
to cue up a commercial DVD, and sometimes fail.  A retry by opening and closing
the tray will make it "kick in".  But the same discs cue and work flawlessly in
a Bluray capable player.

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