Wondering if anyone can give me some advice.

In the DVD Player compatibility list on this site, most people report that their Sony DVP-S570D can play VCD & SVCD. Following the advice of the feedback there, I switched from regular CD-R's (which would not play at all on my player) to CD-RW's. The CD-RW's kind of work. The player will start and the VCD indicator on the DVD player lights up and then after a few minutes, the DVD player freezes. The longest it has played before freezing is about 13 minutes. Sometimes it skips a little before the freeze occurs.

Any ideas on what I can do to stop the freezing? Should I just give up on this DVD player and get a new one that can play (S)VCD's more reliably?

Eric