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My dvd recorder is only a few months old and has not been hacked in any way but left as standard, however it does skip on re-recordable disks (ok on pre-recorder films, etc.). When this does happen sometimes the whole machine goes dead with the display total black and nothing on the TV screen, only pressing the standby button did the machine come back on. I am using TDK and Packard Bell blank dvd`s, any ideas anyone. :(