Sony DVD Recorder rejecting disks

[johnutar]

Had my Sony RDRGX120 DVD Recorder for 12 months now. Recently after inserting and waiting for it to load a used recordable disc it has started to flash up on the TV screen "cannot read disc" and displays on the front of the recorder "C 13:00". It doesn't happen to every disc but once it has the disc will not play again.

Can anyone tell me what this code means and am I doing something wrong?

Advice greatly appreciated!!!

[pug100]

This site may help

http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/error-c -13-00-t188274.html

Are you using a good brand of media,
is it DVD R or RW,
does the problem happen with all DVDs or just one disc,
does the problem happen with pre recorded discs (silver ones)

[johnutar]

Thanks for the info Pug.

Can't remember brand but decent enough. Still using original stack I bought of 10 discs 12 months ago but they haven't been heavily recorded/erased over.

DVD +RW

Hasn't happened with all the discs but about 6 out of the 10 so far. Very annoying when you go to watch something you have recorded and looked forward to.

Problem doesn't occurr with pre-recorded discs, only re-writable ones (so far).