NeilO

Do long pauses do any harm to the disc?

For some gut reason, it disturbs me when my children leave a DVD paused in the player for a long time. For some reason I'd rather it be on the menu or just stopped entirely. Am I worrying over nothing or have there been cases when discs have been harmed? I guess it might just be leftover VHS anxiety where leaving a tape paused for long definitely does harm.

Thanks,

Neil

dan-0

About ten years ago I left an eagles cd on pause for a few days and the techniques cd player burnt a laser sized hole through the cd. It was actually pretty cool, but I wouldn't recommend it.

On a side note. That 'ol techniques player finally bit the dust last month after over 10 years of faithfull service. Rest easy in the landfill, you gentle giant of yester-year.

Dave Poehlman

Really!?!? There must have been something wrong with your player. I've left CD's paused with no problem.

The DVD is still spinning when on pause (or it should be) so, there shouldn't be any danger in damaging the disk.

It is not, however, recommended to leave a static image on your TV.. particularily if you have a RPTV.

Jack Briggs

What Dave said. The disc will be unaffected, but your monitor won't. And I don't really like leaving the player itself in pause mode for more than a few minutes.

NeilO

I guess I'll have to lighten up about this issue, then.
It's easy enough to turn the TV off. I think our DVD player actually dims the image after some time.



Is there any possible damage to the player?

Thanks,

Neil

Kenneth Harden

No, the player will be fine. Again, the TV is what will suffer.

IIRC, my friends Sony DVD player will take you to the Sony screen saver after 5, 10 minuites of the disc being paused.

BrentPollard

If you can train the kids to hit the stop button once, instead of the pause, when they hit play it should start up just as if it were paused.

David Preston

Neil don't feel alone I hate long pausing to. I just hit stop. I think my present DVD player goes into a screen saver mode(at least thats what I call it) where the word DVD bounces all around the screen instead of a still picture.

NicholasL

Yes, but I've heard of some DVD players that don't have the memory recall feature where after you press stop it returns to where you last left off when you press play. Some DVD players (if I remember correctly, I read the 2900 had this issue? Or maybe the 1600) go right back to the beginning after you press stop.

AllanN

For me it’s just the idea of the disk sitting there spinning and they player not really doing anything. It creates more unnecessary wear on the players moving parts. Also most DVD players if you stop the disk and then play it again without powering off or changing disks will start up at the location you stopped at. Like other people have said static images will damage displays especially rear projection and plasma.

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