dvd player "skipping over damaged area'

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dvd player "skipping over damaged area'

DVD Player has begun "skipping over damaged area(s)", when in fact there is nothing wrong with the DVD. I thought it might be hardware related, but when I plug in a Sony external DVD burner (that works with my MacBookPro), the same thing happens. When I play the same DVDs on a friends Toshiba laptop, they play fine. I have seen about 5 years worth of discussions on this issue, but no solutions.

This is also the first post, afaik, where an external burner was used with the same result, thus eliminating the internal slot loading drive as the culprit.

My Mini is running 10.6.8.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Feb 14, 2012 12:20 PM

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fane_j

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Feb 14, 2012 12:26 PM in response to mtpalms

mtpalms wrote:

When I play the same DVDs on a friends Toshiba laptop, they play fine.

To make sure, you need to play the same DVDs on the Sony drive with the Toshiba laptop. So far, you have the same DVD on a different computer, but not the same drive.

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mtpalms Author

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Feb 14, 2012 12:54 PM in response to fane_j

Sorry I wasn't clear:

DVDs were starting to return this error message when played with the Mini's internal drive, so I tried one using the external Sony drive, hooked up to the Mini via usb2, still got errors. Loaded same DVD into a Toshiba laptop drive, it played no problem. Have tried this a couple times with DVDs that wouldn't play on the Mini's drive or external Sony drive hooked up to Mini. They play fine on the Toshiba. These are commercial DVDs, btw.

I don't have access to the Toshiba atm, but I have never had a problem with the Sony drive playing DVDs on my MacBook Pro. I will try it though, and post back. It means I will have to play

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