[MacDV] Re: DVD player "cleaning"?

[James Asherman]

On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 01:59  PM, matblack at mac.com wrote:

> I had a similar problem with my PS2 (yeah I know-but it was a good 
> justification!) and used one of those cleaning disks. It basically has 
> this small soft brush glued to it that "dusts" the lens. I've used the 
> Disk Cleaner a bunch of times and most times it seems to have worked.
>
> On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 12:05  PM, Steven Rogers wrote:
>
>>
>> Lately, I've been having trouble playing burned DVDs on my DVD player 
>> (Sony DVP-S560D). At first, I thought it had something to do with my 
>> Mac, but now I'm starting to see the problem with commercial disks. 
>> The main symptom is that the player gets "lost" while playing the 
>> disk, and particularly when changing menus, and flashes the 
>> wonderfully user friendly "C:13:00" which means "disk is dirty". But 
>> of course, it isn't. My DVD-Rs play fine on the Mac, and they used to 
>> play fine on the DVD player, but what used to be an occasional 
>> drop-out has turned (in about a 6 month period) into almost 
>> unplayable DVD-Rs.
>>
>> I've heard those DVD player "laser cleaning" devices are a hoax, but 
>> I'm starting to get desperate. DVD players are so cheap, I'm not sure 
>> its worth it to have the thing professionally serviced. Anyone have 
>> any experience with this sort of thing? The player is maybe 3 years 
>> old - do DVD players croak that quickly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> SR
>>
>>

I suspect that they do croak that quickly. I just got a notoriously 
problem ridden DVD player from eBay.
  It is cranky beyond belief (JVC xv-501bk) I used a cleaning disk and 
even went the extra step of putting a drop of lens cleaner on the 
little brush. It helped even with this very bad machine ( don't cry I 
only paid $18.. for it).
Jim