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So, I got this LG player today. All great except when playing back DVD+R. They play back fine but there is a regular, I mean every few seconds, clicking sound. It sounds like a cricket, for want of a better description.
I get the same sound briefly, at the beginning of other discs, like the player is searching for the media. But, once the disc starts to play, it goes and does not return. With the DVD+Rs it remains.
Any thoughts on this folks?

Anybody got any ideas on this annoyance?

It might be a firmware issue. Check the LG website to see if there are
drivers and patches available to fix the problem (provided the player
has an ethernet or wi-fi connection to accept downloads).

I would also check the DVD+R disc for dirt and scratches.
This can be a source of malfunction.

If that is not the problem, I would make a swift return to the
store of purchase for an exchange or refund. I use either Panasonic
or Sony players and have never had this problem from either.

Thanks for your input.It's strange that this only happens with DVD+R. I've tried all DVD+Rs that I own and its the same for all. Also strange that the sound and vision is unaffected in any way. They play back just fine.

On further investigation, the discs which do this are narrowed down to Verbatim discs, both DVD-R and DVD+R, and all from the same seller. They all played fine in my old player.
I'd really appreciate some input.

Maybe your older player is more tolerant of any physical variations in the discs. The discs could be out-of-round, off-balance, etc. I would be worried that if there is a "clicking" noise that the discs could be hitting something.

Can you try another brand?? I don't know the reputation Verbatim nowadays....

Rick

Can you try another brand?? I don't know the reputation Verbatim nowadays....

Rick

I have.
None of my other DVDs have this problem.
It's just those discs, all Verbatim, all from the same seller, though some DVD-R and some DVD+R.
Thanks for your help though.

Maybe your older player is more tolerant of any physical variations in the discs.
Rick

I suspect this is the case. My old DVD players play practically anything, but my newish Sony Blu-Ray can be quite recalcitrant sometimes .

Last year I purchased a number of DVD's from a seller in the USA and I noticed they would be supplied as Verbatim DVD+R's. With the discs also being in NTSC format, I was very concerned they would not play at all and advised the seller. He kindly sent them all as Verbatim DVD-R's and they play fine.

Seek out someone with a different brand of Blu-Ray player and see if the cricket sound still occurs.

At one time I could not play DVD+Rs and a guy in another state, now well in his 90s and a known personality for things Bing Crosby & Jessie Matthews, insisted on sending these to me and friends who could not play them successfully(he often did not finalize either and without a matching machine I could not do that job). He told me to go out and buy a Philips DVD player(Philips supported the type and this is why Yamaha could play them but their machine I got when my early Pioneer broke down and was too expensive to repair, didn't last long). A bit of a nerve. But he is like that. The early Panasonic DVD recorders could not play NTSC DVD-Rs but a later model did from then on.

With the Yamaha, I used mostly DVD-Rs and I got problems of clicking during play and, as it so happened, the sound jumped. Eventually, it made a big noise and conked out for good. I never got a response from Yamaha whose various divisions were HQ-ed in my city in Australia and this fact surprised a lot of people who found that Yamaha were one of the better ones with any sort of problem. Not for me they weren't. I still have the machine boxed somewhere. I don't see them around these days in DVD machines but then I don't go looking much these days.

Well, I've had no problem with any discs now since purchase, other than Verbatim DVD-R and DVD+R.

Such is life, eh. Just when one thought one was now set up for trouble=free viewing into the twilight years.