Problem with newer DVD's in ubuntu 10.04 (Video-Player)

[Basil Chupin]

On 09/09/2010 22:54, Colin Law wrote:
> On 9 September 2010 11:01, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> ...
>> What I would suggest is that you firstly clean the DVD with methylated
>> spirits (metho) - ie, denatured alcohol - by using a couple of Kleenex
>> tissues, rolled into a "ball" and wet with metho, by using a clockwise
>> circular motion (if you are right handed or anti-clockwise if left
>> handed) as you move over the surface of the DVD. Metho does NOT affect
>> the surface coating of the DVD - trust me.
>>      
> I am sorry, I have to ask, why do you have to go the opposite
> direction if you are left handed?  I cannot see that the DVD can tell
> which hand you are holding it in and which you are cleaning with.
> Clockwise is clockwise whichever hand you use.
>    
Not being left-handed I wouldn't know the answer.

It just seemed to me that, being right-handed, it was natural for me to 
go clockwise when doing something like this but for people being 
left-handed that the opposite would be true.

"Assumption is the mother or all f***-ups" as you know :-) .

OK, already, I should have stated "using a circular motion..."....

Have you ever seen the resurfacing machine used in video rental shops 
work to resurface DVDs, or used a resurfacing tool available at DVD 
outlets? If you have then you would get the picture of what I am trying 
to explain :-) .

BC

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