Jack W asked:
I went on the Eurostar the other day and put all my bags through the scanner as per usual but this time I had my camcorder and some discs for it. The disc in the camcorder wasn’t affected but the four others cannot be read by the camcorder as it says they are scratched or dirty, yet were working perfectly the day before. Any way to restore them?
I went on the Eurostar the other day and put all my bags through the scanner as per usual but this time I had my camcorder and some discs for it. The disc in the camcorder wasn’t affected but the four others cannot be read by the camcorder as it says they are scratched or dirty, yet were working perfectly the day before. Any way to restore them?
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It’s most unlikely to be the Xray machine. To alter the contents of an optical disk requires localised high temperatures. This takes a focussed laser, not a general exposure to Xrays.
I suspect that shaking up the camcorder in transit has dislodged some dust. Clean the lens and the disks and all should be fine.
Have you ever burn DVDs in a DVD player and several of them fail for no reason? That is because not every DVD works in every DVD burner. That is most likely what is happening here.
Remember that the DVD drive in a camcorder is a DVD burner. You may have picked a brand of DVDs that you have never used before, and they don’t like working with your camcorder.
What can make this issue so frustrating is that DVD manufacturers get their materials from multiple suppliers. Sometimes the composition of the DVD (represented by the shade of color) changes. You may be using a certain brand of DVDs with certain DVD burner for months without errors, and suddenly, the same brand of DVD start failing in the same DVD burner. That is because the manufacturer used a different supplier, or the quality and makeup of the supplier’s materials changed. That in turned changed the makeup of the DVD, and everything else fails in a ‘domino effect’.
You just have to get more DVDs, and try again. You can also try sending the bad DVDs to the brand or manufacturer. They might give you a refund or send you a replacement stack.