I've never had this happen, but I have this DVD of a tv-show in a series of 10 DVD's, it's the same region and everything as the others and I put it in, the computer makes some noises like it's working harder to get it to play then spits it out after 30 seconds.
I put back in an previous volume DVD from this series and it plays fine. Is it simply the DVD? It's brand new I just took it out of the wrapping.
The drive in my G5 tower will read/write commercial or blank CDs and will read/write blank DVDs, however, it will not read most commercial DVDs. When I insert them it tries to read it then after a few seconds it just spits them back out. Occasionally commercial DVDs will read and mount fine, but this seems to be rare.
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Mac OS X (10.4.10)
When I insert a video DVD into my laptop - it spits it out right away...what should I do?
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MacBook Pro
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This is the details of my dvd driveMATSHITA DVD-R  UJ-868:  Firmware Revision:         KB19 Interconnect:         ATAPI Burn Support:         Yes (Apple Shipping Drive) Cache:         2048 KB Reads DVD:         Yes CD-Write:         -R, -RW DVD-Write:         -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW Write Strategies:         CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO Media:         To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
This can't be normal behavior. Everytime I restart, whatever CD is in the optical drive comes out.
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MacBook Pro
Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Whenever I insert a blank DVD there's a long pause and it spits it out again, nearly every time. There's no dialog, no message, no reaction from the OS of any kind.
On the rare occasions when it accepts a disk, everything after that is fine. I can burn DVDs no problem. The DVDs are a variety of different types (all DVD-R), from reliable brands.
I've tried rebooting, changing the settings in System Preferences, quitting all applications except the Finder, but nothing has made any difference.
Here's my disc Burning info:
Firmware Revision:DB09
Interconnect:ATAPI
Burn Support:Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:0 KB
Reads DVD:Yes
CD-Write:-R, -RW
DVD-Write:-R, -RW
Write Strategies:CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media:Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1, Brand new
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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