DVD Player Problem??

greyteam1959

When playing some pre recorded DVDs the picture freezes and then jumps about then starts again then it keeps on doing it the plays OK for a while.
These are DVDs that I have bought not recorded myself.
Anybody any ideas whats up ????
Is it the DVDs or is it my player ????

Millionare

mervyn11 wrote: »

When playing some pre recorded DVDs the picture freezes and then jumps about then starts again then it keeps on doing it the plays OK for a while.
These are DVDs that I have bought not recorded myself.
Anybody any ideas whats up ????
Is it the DVDs or is it my player ????

When you say "pre-recorded" does this mean Originals or Copies?

f1charlie

Is this from the beginning of the disk or part-way through? If part-way through, perhaps it can't cope with the layer change on dual-layer disks.

TITEASCRAMP

could it be scratched or dirty

greyteam1959

Millionare wrote: »

When you say "pre-recorded" does this mean Originals or Copies?

they were purchased off the net and appear to be originals but they may be copies.
they have played ok before but just started this freezing for some reason

Millionare

mervyn11 wrote: »

they were purchased off the net and appear to be originals but they may be copies.
they have played ok before but just started this freezing for some reason

Copies tend to have a blue/purple burnable side while originals tend to be Silver/goldie.

If copies then it could be that they were done on cheap, unreliable media, which over time have deterioated and will no longer play or start to skip.

Or its dirty/got scractched which you can try cleaning.

Have you tired them in another player? if they play ok in that then its the DVD player.