[HanktheTankND]

I recently purchased a Pioneer DV 46 and was watching Das Boot (Superbit) on it last night when it suddenly got stuck on a frame in a movie and occasionally would move on further into the movie and would be very choppy. I decided to try it on another dvd player and it was fine. I know this is probably a dumb question but is my player defective or is the pickup just more sensitive. As a note, the disc itself didn't appear to have any scratches other then one small one that was very light and shouldn't have had an effect on more then a few minutes of the movie, as opposed to the whole second half of the disc like the player was having trouble with. Thanks!

 

[atek99]

I'm afraid I don't have a definitive answer for you, other than to say I've run into the same thing. I bought a Samsung DVD recorder last Christmas, although it seems to have no problems recording to blank discs, or playing back its own discs, it has problems with a very, very small quantity of commercial DVDs and always at the same spot(s). These dics play fine on my five year old workhorse Toshiba DVD and even the kids cheapo DVD players. I came to the conclusion that there was some kind of design compromise in the laser pick-up for this unit, since it had to play and record CD-R,CD-RW,DVD+-R,DVD+-RW, etc. and for some reasom, it encounters something on these problem discs it just doesn't like. I would suggest that if your problem is confined to extremely few DVD's, and always at the same spot, that it is not likely a problem with the player. Then again, there might be some specs in the pick-up slightly out of whack, making it more sensitive. Do you have the opportunity to exchange the unit?

Regards,

atek99