TRILIGHT
10th May 2002, 18:50
I ran across something strange today. I burned a disc and it played back fine. Now the first thing I noticed was that the player seemed to take a bit longer than usual in recognizing the disc, lighting up "DVD" and starting playback. I tried it a number of times and it played everytime so I wasn't totally worried. I then applied my disc label as I do with all of my discs. After that, the disc would not play at all!
I always apply labels to my projects so I found it strange that this one would cause a problem. I decided not to just toss the disc. I spent some time peeling and scraping (carefully scraping ;) ) the disc label off. I then washed the whole disc in the sink using some "Era" liquid laundry detergent. After cleaning all the label off, I dried it and tried to play it again. Although the start up is still slow like it was at first, it plays everytime! Anyway, the moral of this story is, I wouldn't apply a label to a disc that seems to take longer than normal to "start up". It's probably on the edge of being able to be played at all and a label will just push it over.
I always apply labels to my projects so I found it strange that this one would cause a problem. I decided not to just toss the disc. I spent some time peeling and scraping (carefully scraping ;) ) the disc label off. I then washed the whole disc in the sink using some "Era" liquid laundry detergent. After cleaning all the label off, I dried it and tried to play it again. Although the start up is still slow like it was at first, it plays everytime! Anyway, the moral of this story is, I wouldn't apply a label to a disc that seems to take longer than normal to "start up". It's probably on the edge of being able to be played at all and a label will just push it over.