Can a bad dvd cause damage
 

I recently played a dvd in my Phillips dvd recorder. It kept pausing on it's own and making noises. I did notice the dvd smelled like cigarette smoke. Every since then I have had some problems with my dvd recorder. Is it possible for a bad dvd to cause damage to a dvd player?

Thank you,
Tony

It has happend to me more then once, on the Computer and a DVD player Apex , the Computer DVD drive was ok after I rebooted but it killled the DVD player ,it would just try to read for about 2min then it shut off when I tried to put another-one in nothing ,it never worked again..

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