Panasonic DMR E50 Plays CDs but not DVDs

Greetings.

I have a Panasonic DMR E-50. I have burned a couple of hundred DVD-R discs
and many RAM discs and now it won't play any kind of DVD discs but WILL play
CD audio just fine and will recognize and load VCD discs made on a computer
but won't actually play them. Some of the error messages I get are:

NO READ on any blank DVD-R or finalized DVD-Video discs, even if recorded on
this machine.

NO DISC on any DVD-RAM discs recorded on this machine.

Since it will read some kinds of discs I'm thinking there might be some hope
for it. Is there anything like a re-alignment disc or other adjustment that
might help it that won't cost too much money? Or is the laser just too weak
to read video but can still read audio?

Any suggestions for a good, basic machine that can utilize all of my RAM
discs? So far I've only seen RAM available on Hitachi and Panasonic. I
already have Pioneer recorder that has a hard drive so basically I just want
an inexpensive back-up unit without a lot of fancy features.

Thanks.

On 8/08/2008, Ulysses posted this:
> Greetings.
>
> I have a Panasonic DMR E-50. I have burned a couple of hundred DVD-R discs
> and many RAM discs and now it won't play any kind of DVD discs but WILL play
> CD audio just fine and will recognize and load VCD discs made on a computer
> but won't actually play them. Some of the error messages I get are:
>
> NO READ on any blank DVD-R or finalized DVD-Video discs, even if recorded on
> this machine.
>
> NO DISC on any DVD-RAM discs recorded on this machine.
>
> Since it will read some kinds of discs I'm thinking there might be some hope
> for it. Is there anything like a re-alignment disc or other adjustment that
> might help it that won't cost too much money? Or is the laser just too weak
> to read video but can still read audio?
>
> Any suggestions for a good, basic machine that can utilize all of my RAM
> discs? So far I've only seen RAM available on Hitachi and Panasonic. I
> already have Pioneer recorder that has a hard drive so basically I just want
> an inexpensive back-up unit without a lot of fancy features.
>
> Thanks.

The CD reader and the DVD reader use separate lasers, so if the DVD
laser is dead, a device could still read CDs (also vice versa, of
course).

I think your deck needs replacement (or repair, if it's possible and
cheap enough).

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

Ulysses wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I have a Panasonic DMR E-50. I have burned a couple of hundred DVD-R discs
> and many RAM discs and now it won't play any kind of DVD discs but WILL play
> CD audio just fine and will recognize and load VCD discs made on a computer
> but won't actually play them. Some of the error messages I get are:
>
> NO READ on any blank DVD-R or finalized DVD-Video discs, even if recorded on
> this machine.
>
> NO DISC on any DVD-RAM discs recorded on this machine.
>
> Since it will read some kinds of discs I'm thinking there might be some hope
> for it. Is there anything like a re-alignment disc or other adjustment that
> might help it that won't cost too much money? Or is the laser just too weak
> to read video but can still read audio?
>
> Any suggestions for a good, basic machine that can utilize all of my RAM
> discs? So far I've only seen RAM available on Hitachi and Panasonic. I
> already have Pioneer recorder that has a hard drive so basically I just want
> an inexpensive back-up unit without a lot of fancy features.
>
> Thanks.

personally I'd still go for another panasonic. Their newer machines
will play all disc formats and record to them too.

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