[mythtv-users] DVD players

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:

>>
> I've tried the cleaning thing; I even disassembled it to look at the
> lens.  The lens looks off-center.
>
> I am leaning towards another Plextor....  But it's at the top of the
> price range, at $70.  I can get  a NEC DVD player for $30.
>
> I think this one may have been physically damaged by a big glob of
> something stuck to the DVD...  I think I'll probably put a  
> "sacrificial"
> (read: cheap) DVD player in the living room for the kids to destroy  
> and
> get a Plextor burner for the study....

Sounds like a good plan. You really want to look at library disks  
carefully before putting them in a drive, one reason I never rent or  
borrow disks.

But then I don't have kids, and things must look different if you do :-)