Hi!

A friend of mine bought a new set top dvd player, i can't remember what brand. He said that he noticed that the movie freezes for about 0.5 seconds and then plays normal again. This occurs when about half of the movie is played.

The company that sold him the dvd player said that this is normal behaviour that the video freezes for a short time during layer change, since it has to start from the center of the disc when reading the second layer.

I said that i found that hard to believe, since i've never noticed anything like that on my player, but i promised to ask you guys in this forum for advice.

Do you think it's normal, or should my friend return the dvd player??