Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Mark O'Shea Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: OT: Problems with DVD playback on PS2 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:10:00 +0100 Organization: IBM Global Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3C9111A8.A5301E3B@dk.ibm.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sungold3.dk.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Yeah, I've been there. My CD playback was choppy and some CD's would not play at all. And when a couple of my DVD's started coughing I thought about ripping the PS2 open and cleaning the lens. I hesitated and wondered if I should, had a cup of tea, and realized my warranty had run out four months ago. And the rest is history. CD and DVD playback is perfect now, except for "O Brother, were art thou?" where I was obviously pissed the last time I saw it, hence the 1 1/2 inch scratch across the Read-Only surface. But as Scott I would advise on letting Sony do it for you. Regarding DVD's with the new drivers being able to play through a SCART lead I would say that is false. At least I have had no such luck. Chris W.: In order to update your drivers you have to buy the Sony DVD remote which apart from containing the remote and a infrared receiver also includes a CD with DVD driver update. You simply insert the CD, follow what it says, and when you're done you have 2.2MB( I think) less space on your memory card : ) It does get rid of the out of synch speech problem but apart from that I'm not enough of a DVD connoisseur to say that it improves image quality or anything like that. Anyway I'm more than happy with the DVD playback before and after. By the way also make sure your driver( the current one ) is below 2.10E otherwise there is no point in buying the remote for the sake of the driver. Mark PS. I also cleaned my PC DVD-ROM drive and guess what, it also works flawlessly with all my DVDs ( used to fail and say read error ).