[CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives
I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box (these are either poorly manufactured or being resold from somewhere like Netflix). I have to assume it the quality of the DVD's because I try them on two different drives and some dvd's work okay. It does make me wonder though if there is a marginal improvement in reading movie DVD on stand alone dvd players than in my PC drives. Is the reverse true? Are they any higher quality dvd drives that make be able to read more or the data? Or is it more likely that I am just buying/playing lemons? -Paul Meyer . * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives
I've never had any trouble with pressed DVD's, and rarely have trouble with burned DVDs (I never put pressed DVDs in my computer though). Maybe both of your drives are bad. On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box (these are either poorly manufactured or being resold from somewhere like Netflix). I have to assume it the quality of the DVD's because I try them on two different drives and some dvd's work okay. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives
we subscribe to blockbuster. i have a hundered dollar player that has a chip that upgrades the dvd to fill in some of the dots. dvd failures are less than one in a hundred. At 06:20 PM 8/5/2008, you wrote: I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box (these are either poorly manufactured or being resold from somewhere like Netflix). I have to assume it the quality of the DVD's because I try them on two different drives and some dvd's work okay. It does make me wonder though if there is a marginal improvement in reading movie DVD on stand alone dvd players than in my PC drives. Is the reverse true? Are they any higher quality dvd drives that make be able to read more or the data? Or is it more likely that I am just buying/playing lemons? -Paul Meyer . * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, gerald wrote: we subscribe to blockbuster. i have a hundered dollar player that has a chip that upgrades the dvd to fill in some of the dots. dvd failures are less than one in a hundred. We've only had problems a few times, on Netlfix DVDs that had seen better days. I also often watch DVDs on my home PC (running Fedora Linux so I use a program called Xine) and have never had a problem with that. At 06:20 PM 8/5/2008, you wrote: I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box (these are either poorly manufactured or being resold from somewhere like Netflix). I have to assume it the quality of the DVD's because I try them on two different drives and some dvd's work okay. It does make me wonder though if there is a marginal improvement in reading movie DVD on stand alone dvd players than in my PC drives. Is the reverse true? Are they any higher quality dvd drives that make be able to read more or the data? Or is it more likely that I am just buying/playing lemons? -Paul Meyer -- Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
