Last week a friend brought around a damaged DVD disc which wouldn’t play in his DVD player or laptop. As I work in the software development industry he assumed that I would naturally have a solution for his problem (people think I can fix their PCs too).
Well I’ve spent hours and hours on this sucker. First I had to find a PC that would mount the disc. I tried 8 PCs and laptops at work and finally found a laptop that recognised it as a DVD. I have tried to copy it using Windows XP file copy, CloneCD, Roxio, and 1ClickDVD. I have tried to rescue it using CDRoller and DVD Data Rescue. I have tried the file copy facility in Ubuntu Linux, again with no luck. They all get about 25% through and then give up.
I finally popped it into my Oppo 971 to see what would happen. Well it played the DVD the whole way through without the slightest problem. I was gobsmacked. What a machine!
Even better, the DVD was really worth the trouble. It’s “Gary Moore & The Midnight Blues - Live at Montreux 1990” and it’s a real cracker. However if I added up all the time I’ve spent on it, not to mention the time spent by my friends and colleagues supplying me with various programs to try, then I could have bought about 50 new copies of the DVD.
Nigel.
Well I’ve spent hours and hours on this sucker. First I had to find a PC that would mount the disc. I tried 8 PCs and laptops at work and finally found a laptop that recognised it as a DVD. I have tried to copy it using Windows XP file copy, CloneCD, Roxio, and 1ClickDVD. I have tried to rescue it using CDRoller and DVD Data Rescue. I have tried the file copy facility in Ubuntu Linux, again with no luck. They all get about 25% through and then give up.
I finally popped it into my Oppo 971 to see what would happen. Well it played the DVD the whole way through without the slightest problem. I was gobsmacked. What a machine!
Even better, the DVD was really worth the trouble. It’s “Gary Moore & The Midnight Blues - Live at Montreux 1990” and it’s a real cracker. However if I added up all the time I’ve spent on it, not to mention the time spent by my friends and colleagues supplying me with various programs to try, then I could have bought about 50 new copies of the DVD.
Nigel.
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