The DVD drive that came with my computer, which is several years old, takes about five minutes to start playing a DVD. If I pause and restart a DVD, or do anything to it once it starts playing, the drive will freeze up. This seems to happen especially on some DVDs that have some kind of "copyright protection".
It's supposed to be a DVD burner as well, but CloneDVD fails to detect it as such, and it only works with some crappy HP software that came with it, for burning home movies to a DVD.
Due to my experience with this DVD drive, I am very hesitant to rely on my computer as a means of watching DVD movies. If someone can recommend a DVD drive that will actually work, I might get one in my new machine.
Is it normal for computer DVD drives to just not work?
It's supposed to be a DVD burner as well, but CloneDVD fails to detect it as such, and it only works with some crappy HP software that came with it, for burning home movies to a DVD.
Due to my experience with this DVD drive, I am very hesitant to rely on my computer as a means of watching DVD movies. If someone can recommend a DVD drive that will actually work, I might get one in my new machine.
Is it normal for computer DVD drives to just not work?