Princo again ! What about this ?

[jerzy]

I have one of the first dvd players on the market made by Technics(Panasonic). It doesnt play CD-R(W) and most of DVD-+R(W).
I tried Princo in it and it played not problem at all, than after few months disks started to have problems (skipping, jerky playback....) as ppl reported. I said crappy Princo but I put disc in to my second DVD player Sharp DV740X which plays everything and it plays not problem. What the ? I put it back to Technics and plays again no problem for a couple of monts then situation repeat. All princo disks were the some (diferent batches). Does any one reported this fenomen ?

[ebenton]

Are you sure you didn't wipe off the DVD before moving it from one machine to the other? Maybe you inadvertently cleaned it, thereby making it good for a few months until it got dirty again. Or maybe your Sharp player has some mechanism that somehow cleans a disk, whether deliberately or accidentally.

[garryheather]

It could just be that the player can only just focus on that media, sometimes it will achieve it, sometimes it won't.

I've got some borderline media like that, and if I keep ejecting the disc and re-loading it, eventually it will work. I tend to use the same media manufacturers now I've found a selection that are highly compatible with my standalone, and don't have any problems - it's just finding the time to dig out the dodgy discs and burn the content onto a more compatible disc that's the problem now.