> In article <48B45525.5983C758@blueyonder.co.uk>,
> Paul Heslop blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> Jack wrote:

>>> Bought a spindle of Memorex. The Lite-On recorder/player rejected
>>> five of them outright but the other 20 have recorded and re-recorded
>>> TV shows OK so far .... until last night.
>>>
>>> The disc read OK so I programmed a show. This morning, the timer
>>> screen said that the recording was "done," in other words,
>>> successful. But the disc wouldn't play on either the player/recorder
>>> downstairs or the player upstairs.
>>>
>>> In fact, the upstairs player shuts off and says "no disc" and the
>>> player/recorder downstairs says "invalid disc." Other discs work OK.
>>>
>>> I missed a damn good movie. Have you ever heard of a disc going from
>>> acceptable to invalid while it sat in the recorder??

>> with -RW discs I've had them go invalid for no reason. I wouldn't have
>> been happy that the recorder rejected five in the first place. I would
>> question either the quality of discs or of the recorder itself.

>
> I just got a Sony VRD-MC5. It made a LOT of coasters until I finally
> figured out what was going on.
>
> The premium bundles, like Encore and HBO, are carrying some sort of
> signal it doesn't like. If you play a recording from one of those, or
> even have one of them on in preview mode, the unit will mess up until
> you unplug it and plug it in again. Mostly it says 'no input signal'
> but it's done other wackiness as well.
>