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DVD's getting scratched?

  • 15-02-2003 1:54pm
    #1
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    I've noticed that the picture on one or two of my DVD's get 'blocky' for a few seconds at certain scenes and I was wondering if this is being caused during to abrasions on the disk surface.

    I had this happen too one disk and I cleaned the disk with a tissue and it solved the problem. However when the problem occured on another disk I repeated the process but it didn't fix the problem. Why is this?

    One thing I noticed was that on the the disk that was fixed the 'blocks' were reduced to red/green/blue in colour where as on the disk that I COULDN'T sort out the blocks remained the same colours as the area of the picture in which they represented. Also when these blocky errors came the audio went out of sync with the pic which didn't happen to the first disk.

    Anyone else had similar problems with dvd pic getting a bit messed up like this? Is the DVD in question beyond repair now?


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  • #2
    Lex_Diamonds
    Registered Users Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭Lex_Diamonds


    Its not always the disc, consider cleaning the laser inside your player.


  • #3
    daveg
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    I had this problem a few years back. The picture would start freezing and blocky and eventually my DVD player wouldn't play any discs. Turns out my laser was faulty. However I've had it since and a spin of the DVD disk cleaner solves the problem.


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