I had a similar experience with a PS2...I dropped it in transport (~2 foot fall, but on a hard floor). The disc tray popped out, and the eject mechanism was completely fouled...wouldn't push it in or ...

My Pioneer DVR-107DVA, that came with my Sony Vaio doesn't reconize DVD+R media. When I insert the media, the description for the drive goes from being a DVD-RW Drive to CD Drive under My Computers.

Radeon 9800 DVD artifacts, choppy video; possible fix We continue to receive reports (see our initial coverage) of choppy, or artifact-ridden DVD playback with ATI Radeon 9800 graphics cards after ...