[CUBE] Freezing Cube DVD player.

[RICARDO]

Thank you Riba, Chris Lim and Snow White for your feedback and reassurances.
It seems this random freeze is due to defective DVD media rather than a
defective Cube DVD player.  What a relief!....thanks again.

> 
> From: Riba <riba at hi.hinet.hr>
> Reply-To: "Cube List" <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:36:55 +0200
> To: "Cube List" <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [CUBE] Freezing Cube DVD player.
> 

> Hello Ricardo,
> 
>> Has anyone found their Cube DVD player hesitating for a fraction of a
>> second
>> randomly a few times throughout a DVD movie?  What about a total crash
>> of
> 
> Yes, and this is normal. Most DVD discs are 'dual-layered', so that
> they contain twice the data (have you ever asked youself why the DVD-R
> media holds less data than the read only? :) During the duration of the
> movie, the laser reader needs to switch to a 'second layer' to continue
> reading DVD data, and at that point you have this small hiccup. This
> happens also with conventional DVD players.
> 
>> the movie playback with an error message saying "could not read disk:
>> possible cause, disk may be damaged", or words to that effect?  The
>> first
> 
> Don't know about this becuase it never happened to me. Actually it did,
> once. I skipped the troublesome section. It was a rental DVD in pretty
> bad shape so I didn't worry about it too much - it was probably a
> genuine read error.
> However there have been discussions about this problem on this list,
> and people claim that it can happen with new DVD media, and that
> sometimes the version of the DVD player matters. If I remember
> correctly, someone even noticed that it happens in OS X but not in OS 9
> (or vice versa).
> Sorry, can't offer more help :-/
> 
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