DVD Burner damaged a DVD

[Guest]

Yesterday, I tried to watch the original DVD of the movie AI from
Kubrick/Spielberg that I just bought at Wal-Mart.

At about half the DVD, it started to stuttered then it froze completely and
the green light on the DVD drive stayed lit instead of flashing like when it
reads a DVD. It lasted about 10 seconds until I removed the DVD thinking
maybe the lense was dirty.

I put the DVD in my secondary DVD-ROM drive to finnish the feature but the
DVD wouldn't start anymore. I tought maybe the DVD was dirty.

I removed it, flipped it over to clean it only to discover my DVD was
severely damaged...

The laser side has turned of a golden color instead of the greyish color
DVD's normaly have and there was this weird pattern on the outter edge as if
I dipped it in water 1 cm wide all around. The label side was undammaged.
It looks like the laser layer melted but without damaging the plastic or the
label.

My DVD drive is HLDS GWA-4083B 8X DVD(+/-)R/RW DL Drive from my HP pavillon
m1170n also bought new and I also installed the latest firmware update from
HP.ca version 1.19

I don't know if the DVD was in perfect condition at the beggining. I just
wanted to know if something like this ever happenned to someone else and is
it the DVD drive that dammaged the DVD.

Here is the rest of the specs if needed:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...c=en&product=432780&lang=en&docname=c00255625

 

[John McGaw]

Yesterday, I tried to watch the original DVD of the movie AI from
Kubrick/Spielberg that I just bought at Wal-Mart.

At about half the DVD, it started to stuttered then it froze completely and
the green light on the DVD drive stayed lit instead of flashing like when it
reads a DVD. It lasted about 10 seconds until I removed the DVD thinking
maybe the lense was dirty.

I put the DVD in my secondary DVD-ROM drive to finnish the feature but the
DVD wouldn't start anymore. I tought maybe the DVD was dirty.

I removed it, flipped it over to clean it only to discover my DVD was
severely damaged...

The laser side has turned of a golden color instead of the greyish color
DVD's normaly have and there was this weird pattern on the outter edge as if
I dipped it in water 1 cm wide all around. The label side was undammaged.
It looks like the laser layer melted but without damaging the plastic or the
label.

My DVD drive is HLDS GWA-4083B 8X DVD(+/-)R/RW DL Drive from my HP pavillon
m1170n also bought new and I also installed the latest firmware update from
HP.ca version 1.19

I don't know if the DVD was in perfect condition at the beggining. I just
wanted to know if something like this ever happenned to someone else and is
it the DVD drive that dammaged the DVD.

Here is the rest of the specs if needed:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...c=en&product=432780&lang=en&docname=c00255625

Normally the laser in a DVD or CD burner isn't capable of putting out
enough energy to damage a pre-recorded disc no matter what. My guess
from your description is that it was a dual-layer DVD (many commercial
releases are duals) and that the layers have become delaminated. During
manufacture these discs are pressed in two super thin layers which are
literally glued together to make a normal-thickness disc.

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com

 

[Guest]

Normally the laser in a DVD or CD burner isn't capable of putting out
enough energy to damage a pre-recorded disc no matter what. My guess
from your description is that it was a dual-layer DVD (many commercial
releases are duals) and that the layers have become delaminated. During
manufacture these discs are pressed in two super thin layers which are
literally glued together to make a normal-thickness disc.

Yes, it is dual Layer but do you mean the DVD probably was damaged during
the manufacture and its not me DVD burner that damaged it?

 

[Guest]

I looked in the event log after what happenned just to see about a 1000
errors in around 1 minute message saying:

"Une erreur a été détectée sur le périphérique \Device\CdRom0 au cours d'une
opération de pagination."

Translated to:

"An error has been detected on the device \Device\CdRom0 during an operation
of pagination"

If I'm correct, an operation of pagination should happen only if I'm burning
a DVD, not when I'm wathing a movie....