SVCD´s and VCD´s Kill dvd players

[Nexus_06]

SVCD´s and VCD´s Kill dvd players
Is this true??

I heard somewere that svcd´s and vcd´s that are played in home dvd players kill the dvd player because they wear out the optic lazer lens faster than normal dvd disk.

this Scares me a bit because I play lot´s of svcd´s in my player and dont wan´t to wear it out.

cheers

[Cornucopia]

BUNK!

[chewyshaun@hotmail.com]

I played VCD and SVCD in my player for well over a year and its still alive and kicking!

[EddyH]

I'd like to find all the people who talk nonsense about electronics and hit them hard with a metal pole until they agree to never speak of the subject again. (Seen far too much stupid on this site and several other DVD/VCD sites... arggghhh!). Since when did you ever hear of a laser burning out on anything? If something's gonna go, it'll probably be the lens positioning motor or focus adjust, which is more likely to be get thrashed when you use a DVD, by my reckoning..

If that was true, you'd be advised to never put pressed music CDs in your DVD player either..[/i]

[Gazorgan]

CD/CDR/CDRW are read from a different laser than a DVD/DVD+-r/DVD+-RW so that just isn't true. DVD players ( and DVD drives in your computer) have dual laser heads, since you need to much higher frequency (shorter wavelength) beam to pick up the smaller surface marks (that is denser data area) of a DVD.

Granted, if you are watching 6 hours a movies a day, after a few years you may have worn out your DVD player. Remeber the 'average' user watches less than 1 movie/day, more like 2-3/week. So that's say, 5 hours/week, 250 hours/year. That means the cheap DVD player has an average life expectancy of 500 hours. That means some will die at 250 hours and some will go 10,000, but they are designed to last 'at least' 2 years (based on a 1 year parts warranty). A good player can last a lot longer....

[sterno]

they wear out the optic lazer lens faster than normal dvd disk.

Hmm, if this were true we'd probably also have to worry about using bright lights in the bathroom because they might wear out the mirror faster.

[BJ_M]

acually lasers do wear out -- but not to quickly ... we have to replace them in industrial laser disk players now and then .. but these suckers (pioneer ldv8000's) were made in 1990 - 1998 or so .. many of the ones coming in for repair were made in 1992 ish .. and were working 12/7/365 min. time on, often more, sometimes less

.. wish all dvd players were built like that ..

[Cornucopia]

Yeah, uhm...

I heard that both CD's and DVD's (and their players) will wear out if you don't REWIND them!

So, if anybody needs a spare CD rewinder, I have one for $25US, or a DVD rewinder for $40US. :P

Scott

[BJ_M]

Yeah, uhm...

I heard that both CD's and DVD's (and their players) will wear out if you don't REWIND them!

So, if anybody needs a spare CD rewinder, I have one for $25US, or a DVD rewinder for $40US. :P

Scott

hmm - well you might ship that along with my film stretcher

[WoRM]

well..im not sure exactly what caused this, but a friend of mine has been playing nothing but svcd and vcds on his apex 1100. and hasnt played many dvds. but now it will not play any retail dvds. it will play vcd and svcd with no problems.. just not any dvds. so there could be some validity in Nexus_06's comment. just seems kinda weird that it will not play DVDs that is was created to play anymore. my apex 660 has worked fine since i bought it quite some time ago. the only thing it chokes on is dvd+rw. but everything else ive put in works.

[joe444455555]

as I under stand it, the burning out problem that occures with CD video is mostly the cheap apex players with really fast bit rate capeabilities. They must have pushed em to far, as they heat up quickly with x/sVCDs. Most of the reports I've seen reguarding a brand or model of player regularly burning out are the apexs, and that is how I hear they burn out. Hopoe this helps, love my cheap mintek 1600:
no firmware/hack mods, very nice picture, very nice sound, very cheap in price, very reliable, very compatiable.

[justinconspicuous]

I bought the Apex 1100W in August and now it won't play DVD's. I've been playing lots of SVCD's and DVD's, and just the other day it stopped playing DVD's. Is there anything I could possibly do?? I can't go returning it cuz I bought it for 60 bucks at WalMart... I don't think they'd take it back... especially after I hacked it.