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Lachp30

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My NEC DVD player inside my DELL inspiron 9100 is having issues reading certian DVD's. During the halfway mark of 'Reindeer Games', it freezes in which ever media player I use, and this is also the case with 'Training Day'. However, other DVD's work fine. I am presuming this has something to do with the layer chnage on the DVD, as it only even happens at the exact middle of the movie. I have cleaned this disks. With little knowledge of this optical stuff, is there some sort of an update i need for my DVD player?
The two DVD's work fine in my set top player.
 

sheik124

Emutalk Member
sounds like a bad drive, try it with other dual-layer DVD's (Chapelle's Show Season 1 is dual-layer, so is Spider-Man 2)
 

smcd

Active member
You can try searching NEC's site for your exact model and seeing if there are firmware updates available. I recently updated my Plextor to accomodate dual layer +R discs.
 

Eagle

aka Alshain
Moderator
sethmcdoogle said:
You can try searching NEC's site for your exact model and seeing if there are firmware updates available. I recently updated my Plextor to accomodate dual layer +R discs.

Yeah its a dual layer thing, there is probably a firmware update as seth said.
 

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