DVD Drive

SAbsar

SAbsar

Mac Graduate
Recently ive been having trouble reading DVD's on my mac: it simply wont recognize some DVDs i pop in, it just ejects them! Actually i watch a lot of DVD movies on my mac, so is there any chance that i may have damaged the drive with all my movie watching?
 
Are all those movie you have tried to see with the same region code? (e.g. all from US or all from Europe). Do you see any error message before it ejects them?
 
One word - CD/DVD cleaning kit (sorry, that's 3 words) at any good office supply or electronics retailer. It's worth a try, and good to have around for the occasional tune-up. If that doesn't make any difference, then it's possible that your DVD drive may need replacing.

Any problem mounting non-DVD disks? Try several Audio CDs as a good test.
 
DeltaMac said:
If that doesn't make any difference, then it's possible that your DVD drive may need replacing.
Any problem mounting non-DVD disks? Try several Audio CDs as a good test.
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Oh. So does that mean that playing too many DVD's will damage my drive?
No I have no trouble with Audio CD's or any other CD's. Its just those few DVD's!
 
SAbsar said:
Oh. So does that mean that playing too many DVD's will damage my drive?
No I have no trouble with Audio CD's or any other CD's. Its just those few DVD's!
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Optical drives do fail from time to time, (it is a mechanical device, after all) although simply using the drive to view DVD movies isn't a likely scenario, you'd probably have DVD movies running 24 hours a day, before you had 'too many'

DVD's use a much more precise positioning of the laser lens used for reading the disk, so other functions may still be OK.
Have you tried the cleaning disk? won't hurt, may help...
 
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