Why Does DVD Drive In MacBook Pro Keeping Skipping Over Nonexistent 'damaged Areas' In Movies
Mar 31, 2012
I've had my MacBook Pro for a couple months, and everything works perfectly fine with it, except the DVD drive. Whenever I try watching movies on it, it always keeps skipping over nonexistent "damaged areas", even though nothing is wrong with the actual movie DVD. I watch the movies on my TV, and they still work fine, so the problem has to be something with the Mac laptop.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
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