Question about unreadable disk.

[uka100]

I recently tried to play an old DVD I came across, and it played (with glitches in random places, different each time I think) in my standalone DVD players. These glitches shouldnt be there as the disc surface is in very good condition, some minor marks but nothing compared to ones from DVD rental places . When I put it in my NEC 2510 (notoriously bad reader) it reads it and gives the correct title of the disc but won't play or rip with dvd decrypter. This DVD is actually the first one I ever brought it was from HMV and is NTSC ,region free (I'm PAL UK). So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas why the disk unreadable? One thing I noticed is that it has gold dye, which I never seen on a pressed or dvd-rewritable since? Is that standard for NTSC discs, because all my other DVD'S are silver.

[jdizzy40]

So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas why the disk unreadable? Well since I don't have your disk to try in my players, it could be just about anything. What kind of climate was it kept in? Hot cold? Did the disk ever get exposed to direct sunlight? Guess its time to just bury that one in the coaster cemetary!

[SCDVD]

The gold color indicates that it is a DVD-9 double layer disc. But that shouldn't have any effect on its playability.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Try the latest DVDDecrypter,in Tools->Settings select Ignore Read Errors and Detect Mastering Errors .