Can DVDs Kill DVD Players?

Posted by Cliff on Friday September 3, 2004 @02:35PM from the death-by-disc dept.

aidanpryde asks: "In the weirdest situation I've ever seen. My DVD player died on Saturday while watching the episodes of a favorite sci-fi series. I was watching disk 5 with my wife and noticed that it was getting jumpy. I took the disk out to see if it was dirty or scratched, but seeing nothing, we put the disk back in. Now the DVD player won't read anything, not the Season 5 disk, none of our other disks...nothing! So, we take the DVD player as a loss. Hardware failure happen all of the time, right? So I go downstairs with my wife on another day and try it on her DVD player in her computer. We get through one episode of the disk and it starts to jump again. We take it out, try another disk and sure enough -- nothing works. Has anyone ever run into DVD's that kill DVD players? Is there any way that I can get compensation for my dead DVD players? Is there any ideas as to why this has happened. Can I download firmware updates for the computer drive that may fix the problem?"

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...Spooky man! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 14:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There is only one logical explanation. You have gohsts in your house. It is time to call ghost busters.
MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 15:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

for it is teh funnie.
Re:I SECOND THAT! MOD UP! by cdrudge · 2004-09-04 03:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So you mean all this karma that I've been accumulating here means nothing?
Seven days... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-04 04:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And with any luck, you get to make out with Naomi Watts.
Re:Killers on the loose by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-04 09:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'd take it to small claims court and get my $300 bucks back

You buy your bucks for $300? The cheapest I've found is $400 bucks, and bucks for $450 are about average where I live. My dad got so angry that now he bucks $450 bucks.