I have a Panasonic DVD-S97 with HDMI output

I have several 'home made' dvd's from my Camcorder

When I play them on the DVD player, the player gets so hot that it makes the disc itself get very hot

When the disc gets hot it starts to break down and the picture starts to break up. If I let it cool down it will play again for a while until the disc gets hot again and the break up of the picture happens again

Bought DVD movies are fine, only happens on DVD+/-R,RW etc

I asume this is happening because DVD recordables are 'burned' using the laser which encodes the image using heat

The heat from the DVD player is so high it seems to be causing a break down of the original encoded information on the DVD recordable disc as the original laser burning did

My question is:-

Is it normal for a DVD player to get hot in operation, or is this a S97 problem, or do you think it is a faulty S97

Can anyone help

Many Thanks

Well yes any type of disc player heats the disc as it spins. I would make sure there is proper ventilation for the player. It could just be that the disc in question is not of good quality or was already exposed to heat some other time and is not handling the stress very well.

If your player plays regular discs just fine, I would tend to lean toward the recorded disc as the problem.