Panasonic L-50 DVD Player Overheats

[mjthomas]

I have a Panasonic Portable DVD Player. When I play DVD's I have backed-up with DVD2One or DVDShrink, after 10-20 minutes, the movie gets distorted and will not play. I was told it was the media, but I am using Ritek 4X media. (This problem with distortion does not happen with original DVD's, only backups.) I was also told it was because of overheating. Anyone have the same/similar problem? If so, how did you fix it. Please respond.

[lrosado]

That happened to mine, it means the player is starting to become really sensitive to reading dvd/dvd-r's. Soon it will start doing the same to regular dvd's. Panasonic stated a while back that this player is not really set up to read dvd-r's, even though they'll play, eventually it will start to skip and pixelize and then just lock up and stop reading all together. becareful I had to get a new portable dvd player because i started to get problems. luckily i had warranty and They replaced it. But I sold that one and bought a different brand that does read DVD-r's without this problem. This is my experience. Hope I'm wrong in your case, but it wasnt wrong in mine