1st March 2007, 12:12 AM
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.
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.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)