I have a Sony DVP-N500V player only about 16 months old. On certain DVDs the picture breaks up cutting to blue screen. It only happens a few times during a movie for a few seconds,but it is annoying. It happens at the excact spot on the DVD as well leading me to think I was getting bad DVDs, but they play fine in other players. I even exchanged a store bought DVD thinking it was defective and the replacement did the same thing at the excact same spot in the movie.

Ive already cleaned the lens with no results. Is it possible that some dvd players are just not as good as playing DVDs with minor manufacturing flaws? I paid about $180 for this player so I figured it should be pretty good.

I cant determine for sure if its the player or the DVDs that are defective.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions to solve my problem.

Thanks. Have a great day.