any ideas on DVD recorder fault?

Katykat

Recently bought a Sony hard disk DVD recorder. Up to now I have recorded about 24 programmes & whilst watching 2 of these, the picture froze. There was no way to restart it even from the beginning, it still stopped in the same place. I bought it from Amazon, who are really good and will exchange it without question, but it would mean re-installing a new one, so I'd like to try to fix it myself. Any ideas please?

pchelpman

Had similar problems with a LiteOn machine.

First we thought it was corrupt disks. We cleaned the disks and this seems to improve the problem. For a while.

The whole thing worsened till we were left with the conclusion that the recording process was corrupt.

LiteOn took it away and tested it. Sure enough ... it needed a new drive and they fixed it.

Have tyou tried cleaning the disks, recording something else on another disk to see if that works?

In the end I'd take them up on their offer and get a new one.

Katykat

Thanks PCH, but the recordings were made onto the hard drive, so no disks invloved.

pchelpman

Ooops ... sorry. Didn't notice that in your first comment.

However, my observation on the recording process is still valid. It could be a fault in the recording procedure. If so there's no way you're going to fix it.

Probably the same if it's a hard drive fault.

Like you say ... get a new one.

Best of luck.