This is Not good for the laser mechanism and other vital parts. STOP the unit using your remote - most have recollect memory and will remember where you left off. It is as if you paused an orgasm- things get muddled on the hard drive and laser. Yes the DVDR remembers- you with your O may or may not.

Gotta work on those analogies, HoustonGuy. You've been watching too many episodes of "Numbers."

This is Not good for the laser mechanism and other vital parts. STOP the unit using your remote - most have recollect memory and will remember where you left off. It is as if you paused an orgasm- things get muddled on the hard drive and laser. Yes the DVDR remembers- you with your O may or may not.

Appreciate your concern but is there more out there on this? You must be quoting someone.

I am having a hard time getting my arms around the problem. It seems that if you are at one spot you would have minor movement of the arm. BTW I have left my Polaroid paused several times for an hour with no apparent problems.

This is Not good for the laser mechanism and other vital parts. STOP the unit using your remote - most have recollect memory and will remember where you left off...


Do you believe this would also hold true when using "chase play"? The only way I can stop my DVDR in the chase play mode is by pausing.

This is Not good for the laser mechanism and other vital parts. STOP the unit using your remote - most have recollect memory and will remember where you left off. It is as if you paused an orgasm- things get muddled on the hard drive and laser. Yes the DVDR remembers- you with your O may or may not.The laser mechanisms aren't employed during play of my DVDRs since they are hard drive units.
YMMV

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. What's the difference if the laser is on because the unit is paused or because the unit is playing? As was noted above, there is no laser issues for HDD playback. The only unit that could be harmed by a lengthy pause is the display, if it is of a type that is susceptible to screen burn-in.

The only potential downside is that the laser could be on longer than necessary and the bearings on the disc spindle would get more hours on them. But there's no mechanical wear of the media as you would get with a paused VHS tape. You probably wouldn't want to forget that the unit was on pause overnight, but as far as getting up for a snack or a bio break I really don't think this is anything to worry about.

How do you know the laser is even on ? The frame is necessarily stored in RAM for display. The laser might be OFF !

maybe HG knows from experience,he was paused and orgasming,and when he went to unpause later,his dvdr was broken.

Talk about having your buttons pushed . . .

How do you know the laser is even on ? The frame is necessarily stored in RAM for display. The laser might be OFF !Quite possible, and that's why I said "potential downside". I think at least on my Pioneer 633 the laser really is on because even after a fairly long pause it starts instantly. If the machine was smart enough to spin down drive and laser then I'd expect a brief delay when unpausing as the disc spun back up and the head assembly re-acquired the track.

Of course if the machine is REALLY smart it could buffer enough frames in RAM to mask that too, but based on the fact that I can notice the dual-layer switch on my unit, I don't think it does that.

The Pio640 keeps a paused DVD spun up. For some reason I don't remember, I put my hand on the case with a DVD paused and felt a significant vibration, presumably from the slightly out of balance DVD. Not audible at all.

This ended a viewing habit of pausing a moving and finishing it the next day. Spinning 24 hours continuously--egad. Fortunately the 640 has excellent resume capability so now I go as far as powering down. Even learned a trick using resume to skip the DVD commercials and "you're a criminal" messages. (Also, apparently HDD resume is on a per title basis and persistent enough to survive four power outages.)

The DVD player manuals do mention that you should stop the player instead of leaving it paused or churning on the menu screen (especially on commercial dvds with "active" menus) to decrease wear. Not sure what the reasoning behind it is.

Appreciate your concern but is there more out there on this? You must be quoting someone.

I am having a hard time getting my arms around the problem. It seems that if you are at one spot you would have minor movement of the arm. BTW I have left my Polaroid paused several times for an hour with no apparent problems.

I left the HD pause on for an hour, but have left the DVD pause on for more than five or ten minutes when a phone call comes in.

Is the HD image stored? If yes, then why not the DVD image? The picture is buffered so it seems like it would be the buffered image when paused with both the HD and DVD. If not, then you do have the same issue with both the HD and DVD, supposed wear.

Some commercial DVD menus do have a lot going on with a lot of changing pictures, clips and sound. I have found they go through their cycle a limited number of times, then start playing automatically. The menus that just sit there and do nothing (no sound or change in picture) tend to stay around.

The DVD player manuals do mention that you should stop the player instead of leaving it paused or churning on the menu screen (especially on commercial dvds with "active" menus) to decrease wear. Not sure what the reasoning behind it is.

The only thing I can think of is the heating of the DVD media itself. If the laser is left on, and the same track is being repetitively scanned, could some wear to the DVD occur? I know read power levels are pretty low, but....

Maybe the warning is just a "leftover" from the CRT days?
My OPPO has the option to kick in a screensaver after a set time.

Maybe the warning is just a "leftover" from the CRT days?
My OPPO has the option to kick in a screensaver after a set time.

That makes sense, especially if you add the problems with Plasma when it first came out. Easy to burn in an image.