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More info?)
This sounds like a hardware problem. One of two things...
1. The laser and/or tracking mechanism is dirty an needs cleaning.
2. the laser unit is out of calibration.
Does it have problems with only dual layer discs, or is it with both single-
and dual layer?
Bobby
"Vince" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7fac01c4848d$c1522da0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Yes.It seems that all newer DVD's(within the last year)
> cannot be read by my DVD drive.Everything older than that
> plays perfectly.BTW I am using Power DVD.If I go into
> event viewer it tells me the device (DVD drive) times out
> trying to read the data.A few times my DVD drive has even
> disappeared from device manager and I had to reboot for it
> to show up again.Very Strange!
> Vince
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Are these all commercial DVDs?
>>--
>>Cari ((MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
>>www.coribright.com
>>
>>"Vince" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:767801c483f1$68469670$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Can anyone tell me why some DVD's will play in my DVD
>>> drive and others won't.It's as if the drive can't read
>>> them.What's the problem.
>>> Thanks
>>> Vince
>>
>>
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