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Selective playing of DVD's on Sharp DVD Recorder

I have had my SHARP DV-RW250H VCR/DVD Recorder for about 15 months. It now refuses to play most (not all) DVD Video commercial discs [movies], whilst continuing to recognise and play my own burned discs. The Recorder is set Region 2 and all discs are Region 2. An error code shows 'Incorrect Disc C104. Of course the manual states this means the disc is incompatible. However as gives this message to the vast majority of discs it has played before, as well as newly bought, this clearly is nonsense. The discs play on other players and on my PC, so what has changed to make the Sharp machine to act in this way with original DVD discs?

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  • Bob Spiers Aug 01, 2007

    Thank you and will try the lens clean solution. One thing I should have made clear is that although, yes, it does read recorded discs it has made itself, it also reads discs burned on my PC. When an original (commercial)DVD is inserted, it shows 'reading', several whirrs, then nothing until a final Incorrect Disc C104. So any disc in my collection that has been burned, new or old, is likely to play. But bought DVD's -again new or old - do not.

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Given that the machine will read disks it has written itself but not play regular discs, I suspect the lens assembly is slightly out of alignment and needs adjusting. This is not normally something you can do at home unless you have the correct test gear. It will need to go to a repair shop. One thing you can try before that is to clean the lens. Buy a quality (Scotch 3M, Philips ) cleaning disc and try it. Could be it's only a speck of dust on the lens.....

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