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[desperance]

My DVD player is v old, as these things go. Occasionally the picture breaks up as if it were a digital TV signal suffering interference; occasionally it will skip part of a scene altogether, in a nasty jerky fashion.

Is this likely actually to damage the discs at all?

If not, is there any other reason to buy a new DVD player, other than saving myself the annoyance (which I can live with, if it's not doing actual harm)? Given that I won't be upgrading the TV for a while, so there's no point thinking about high-definition stuff or that kinda thing?

Comments

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Do you know for certain it's the player and not the discs? I ask because I've bought two copies of one TV show, both of which deteriorated and did what you describe, and eventually became unwatchable. One of our earliest West Wing discs is showing signs of going the same way. (Hmmm, the first show I refer to is Sports Night, so maybe it's just a Sorkin problem.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

These discs is new discs, and one at least I rewound (or whatever is the proper verb, as that is as old-fashioned and inappropriate as "spooled back")(tho' I pause to observe that we do still say steamroller, for machines that are entirely untouched by any steam at all) and the scene played fine the second time through. So I am inclined to blame the machine...

[jeremy-m.livejournal.com]

> old-fashioned and inappropriate

I'm told that in some languages the word for current diesel and electric trains includes the "choo-choo" sound, delightful fossil onomatopoeia.