alba 108 jumping

[wingman]

Hi
I have an alba 108 dvd player..and find it great..but lately towards the end all the dvd's i play in it,It starts to jump and freeze...i know it's the dvd player because if i play the same dvd's in another dvd player they work fine.
Does this player need cleaning?..and if it can be cleaned can anyone explain how to do it.

Thankyou

Wingman.

[turdburglar]

Have your discs been labled, if so check the media forum
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=27
there seems to be the exact same problem through that forum about dvd media that have labels fitted, hope that helps

[wingman]

no they are just ordinary dvd-r disks.

[turdburglar]

Sorry mate, thats all I could think of!

[wingman]

dont appologise mate..i thank you for your help anyway.

[andyp1]

It may be that your Alba doesn't like that particular media. Does it do the same thing on different brands of DVD-R?
Does it work fine with original DVDs?

[wingman]

yes it happens with all sorts of brands of dvd-r's and also original dvd's.

[andyp1]

If the laser was dirty I would have expected it to struggle to read discs or struggle throughout the disc. Its more likely to be the mechanism rather than the laser itself.

I guess its out of guarantee is it ?

[wingman]

yes iv'e had it about a year and a half now..so it's a bin job do you think ?

[andyp1]

I would say so .
If you think how cheap you can get dvd players now , I'd just go and get another cheap one.

[wingman]

yes you are quite right..it's not really worth messing about with i suppose.

ok thanks very much for you help.

[RottenFoxBreath]

it also depends on what you mean by "different brands".
if you categorise that as bulkpaq,datawrite,datasafe,mirror,etc,then these dvd-rs are all pretty much the same,cheap crappy dye,and they will skip on someplayers towards the ends of movies.
but if you have some good quality dvd-rs like ritek,,tayo yuden,memorewx(japan),etc then,yeh the dvd player is a bin job.

[wingman]

well i have been using datawrite yellow as they say the dye used on them is g04...i thought this was good or have i been misinformed?

[andyp1]

Here is a Datawrite Yellow as you can see it's Princo.
DVD Identifier is a nice little tool.

So whoever told you that was talking rubbish or lying.
The dye is quite a bit paler than RitekG04 , I like Datawrite Yellow though they work for me.

[wingman]

i used that proggy aswell..here's what it said using a datawrite yellow.

[wingman]

ohh sorry, not sure what to do now.

[andyp1]

When you want to post a pic , click the browse button and search for your pic , then in your post just put in the file name like this

[ img ] dvdinfo.jpg [ /img ]

without any spaces.

your pic needs to be less than 50k in size.

[wingman]

hope thats correct.

[wingman]

i entered in

[wingman]

[wingman]

at last..

[andyp1]

This is the disc I ran through DVD Identifier.

It just goes to show you don't actually know what your getting until you get it home and test it.

[wingman]

these are a little darker arent they.