Re: DVD/CD-technosheddi to the bridge please?


"Andy Spragg" <sparge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Our DVD/video player has developed an interesting arj feature. It won't
> play DVDs any more. Curiously, it is quite happy to play audio CDs (which
> I
> tried for the first time only a few days ago, to see if it would jbex [I
> know it's supposed to be able to, but I'd never tried it]). It's also
> quite
> happy to play mp3 CDs, a facility I was previously unaware of and which I
> only discovered and tried for the first time today after I RTFM for any
> clues as to the sudden non-DVDness of the situation.
>
> I suppose it could have developed a DVD-specific fault, but it seems a bit
> too much of a coincidence to me that it should stop playing DVDs at around
> about the same time as I hfrq it to play a naudio CD for the first time.
>
> So:
>
> - how does the DVD read process differ from the CD read process, in the
> same drive, such that the former would fail 100% and the latter would jbex
> 100%?
>
> - anyone aware of any technical gotchas that might cause a DVD player to
> set itself to CD-only mode as a result of playing a CD for the first time?

Have you tried the menu? I presume when you switch the DVD on you can see a
startup screen on your WWP? On mine you can, by using a special sequence,
switch regions although I haven't had cause to use this feature yet.

--
Malc

"I want to be a utility fog when I grow up."


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