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In Reply to: Why can't I get a DVD player that works!? posted by SJT on January 25, 2001 at 08:49:17:
What may appear to be insignificant scratches to YOU are VERy significant scratches to a DVD player. People think that DVD movies will play fine with scratches the same size that don't bother audio CDs. This is WAY WRONG thinking. One DVD data surface holds about 6 times more data than an audio CD. This means the pits and lands on the DVD are FAR smaller than the pits and lands on an audio CD. A tiny scratch on a DVD is quite large in relationship to the size of the pits and lands on the disc. It is quite possible/likely that your Sony DVD player is operating as well as ANY DVD player that is fed that disc. Tiny scratches on DVDs are NOT the same thing as tiny scratches on audio CDs... tiny scratches on a DVD is all it takes to ruin the DVD - most typical people renting DVDs will think they can handle DVDs just as poorly as they have handled their CDs over the years and nothing will happen... that is far from the truth. DVDs are considerably more sensitive to tiny scratches than CDs. And DVDs are REALLY sensitive to "radial" scratches... the kind that follow an arc because these wipe out large areas of data from being read. DVDs are also more fingerprint sensitive than audio CDs.Handle your DVDs with lots of care to keep them working for decades.
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- Re: Why can't I get a DVD player that works!? - DougBlackburn 18:37:00 01/31/01 (1)
- Re: Why can't I get a DVD player that works!? - SJT 10:17:53 02/01/01 (0)
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