DVD Player Trouble shooting.

[Darunia]

In the course of watching all four seasons of Futurama, for some reason totally unknown to me, Disc One of Season Four stopped working. I don't know... it used to work, but its not scratched... when I put it into the player, a red light comes on saying "Last Memory", and "NO PLAY" comes up. Whats Last Memory mean? There's a Last Memory button on the DVD remote, but when I press it, nothing happens. This happens to no other DVD I've ever had.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well the problem with DVD names for error codes is they often aren't standardized. What I'm trying to say is that error could mean anything. Check your instruction booklet about it and tell us what it means.

At any rate, you may not think it's scratched, but the most likely option is that it IS in fact damaged in some way, including a scratch. It is very unlikely that the DVD player itself would stop reading one specific disk for any other reason than that. The only other option is that the laser is misalligned, but only just enough that some disks that aren't printed as well which it could read before it can't, but since it's just ONE, I'd go with the disk being the problem.

Are we just your tech support team at this point?

[Weltall]

Have you tried using the disc in another player?

[DMiller]

Do what Ryan said, and try some other DVDs in your player. My DVD player died last year, and I thought the problem was that I had a bad DVD at first until I noticed other DVDs having problems, and realized that they ran fine on my computer.

[Dark Jaguar]

Darunia already said he tried all his other DVDs and they worked fine. If he does have another player, and to be honest I'm not sure if he does, yes testing it in another machine should clear it up. Just make sure it's a WORKING second machine by testing TWO DVDs.

[Weltall]

I don't know if he does either, but if not, it would pay to try it on one belonging to a friend.

I know he has friends. Well, I assume he does. Maybe. Probably not.

Well, I tried, dammit. :(

[A Black Falcon]

Testing it in another thing that plays DVDs definitely is a good idea. I've had times when a DVD which wouldn't play (or played with too many errors to be watchable) in one of our DVD players because of scratches would play in my computer's DVD drive before, several times...

[Dark Jaguar]

I wonder if Darunia's the sort who gets all "enough with all these questions, just tell me how to fix it"?

[Darunia]

Come on, enough with all these questions, just tell me how to fix it!

Does Darunia have a second DVD player? What do y'all think, I live in the desperately poor regions of the South? We have a half dozen in the house, including one in this very laptop.

Anywhoo, I just tried it on my laptop, and it played perfectly, right away. Its just my DVD player...

Now you're going to say "well just watch it on another player", but... well, I'd like to know why my standard player is being fussy.

[A Black Falcon]

Hit it? :D

[Weltall]

Now you're going to say "well just watch it on another player", but... well, I'd like to know why my standard player is being fussy.

It's simply tired of all your French bullshit.

Have you tried declaring war?

[Dark Jaguar]

Alright then, so it works there. Alright, the answer is simple, and it's the sort of thing ABF was talking about. Your normal DVD player slipped out of allignment enough that the poorest quality disk that worked before now is unreadable, but the better quality ones can still be read. Your laptop's DVD drive is still good.

Realligning it requires laser sighting in a dust free room, and we're talking microns here. Repairing it would be a few orders of magnitude more expensive than buying a new cheapo player.

[A Black Falcon]

Alright then, so it works there. Alright, the answer is simple, and it's the sort of thing ABF was talking about. Your normal DVD player slipped out of allignment enough that the poorest quality disk that worked before now is unreadable, but the better quality ones can still be read. Your laptop's DVD drive is still good.

For some reason with those scratched discs (from rental places) was that the problems happened with several different discs on two different DVD players (not always trying each disc on each player, but different instances on different players), but in each case ran much, much better on my computer...

[EdenMaster]

Have you tried declaring war?

On the player itself or the manufacturer?

[Sacred Jellybean]

The player.

Obviously.

I mean, it is closer to his size than a full-grown man and his team of digital versatile lackies.

[Darunia]

A new DVD player!? Argh this fills me with ANGER and RAGE!


*Orders general conscription throughout the empire, and amasses an army of 600,000 by dinner time.*

*Declares formal state of war on his personal DVD player*

*At the Battle of Darunia's DVD Player, the mighty Empire enjoys a crushing rout of the DVD player, which haplessly lay still as the combined volley of 600,000 Goron muskets decimated it.*

*The following day, the DVD player ceded the lower west back of Pomerania, agreed to be garrisoned by Goron troops, and pay a hefty indemnity,*


Well after all of that, it STILL DOESNT WORK! Thanks A LOT WELTALL!

[DMiller]

The musket bullets probably didn't help matters. You should have used a robot with a multidirectional pain beam.

[Darunia]

Now he tells me.