Sony Home Cinema system can't cope!!

[El Cavaliero]

Can anyone please help?

My wife has just bought me a lovely new Sony DAV-SA30 home cinema kit with integrated DVD player. I have a couple of movies backed up on DVD-R discs that play fine in both my previous DVD player (Umax / Yamada) and my PC. The discs are BulkPaq 4 speed written with a Pioneer DVR 106 burner. It seems to play the discs OK for a while, then the picture starts to go jerky, pixellates and finally grind to a halt! Does anyone know the cause or a possible cure as I don't want to have to piggy back another DVD player and merely use my new prezzy as a decoder/amp. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

El Cavaliero

 

[bertieg]

Try using a better dvd media,the bulkpaq ones arent the best to use for dvd backups and sony dvd players can be picky on media.

 

[El Cavaliero]

thanks

Try using a better dvd media,the bulkpaq ones arent the best to use for dvd backups and sony dvd players can be picky on media.

Will give it a go : anyone know if + or - better for Sony & what brands are better than others??

Cheers

 

[bertieg]

I have found that the most compatable is the -r format and try using discs with ritek dye.

 

[The-poacher]

Yep ritek BUT with sony (burners & standalones)they seem to prefer sony media

 

[El Cavaliero]

Thanks again

Yep ritek BUT with sony (burners & standalones)they seem to prefer sony media

Thanks once again : machine is going into the Sony shop for a once over along with the discs it won't play very well : will let you know their verdict.

Cheers

El Cavaliero

 

[PC-GUY]

What they said.

 

[scarecrow]

Ummm- an all-Sony user here... I have a Sony 930 CD player which plays ANY CD media I insert- even up to 100 minutes of music! (99 minutes SKC media recorded with Juggler and the 'short" 30 seconds leadout option ticked on). My Sony standalone DVD player also plays down pretty much everything, and my Sony DRU-500 burner burns every crap of a media that I insert without complaining- but after burning I can find out that it really hates CMC and Princo media- 90% of the burned ones have C2 errors, or even completely unreadable areas... It gobbles every other brand of media pretty happily though, and the burned ones pass the tests.