I was just going to say the same thing Peter, but figured Spiff would have tried that. I had a Toshiba DVD player for 5 years that worked great until recently, it started freezing/skipping as Spiff mentions. Went to Walmart (the evil empire) and bought a CD/DVD cleaning disc, worked like a charm.

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