Sometimes when I am watching a recorded tv program I stop it. The problem arises when I go back to watch it later. I select "play from previous playtime" it puts me back to the beginning and freezes, I can't fast forward I can't stop I can't even turn the system off I have to disconnect at the power. It happens fairly regularly. The only way I can watch it then is to select "play from the start" and fast forward to before the place I was before. Sometimes that works other times it just ends.

SOURCE: LG DVD RECORDER MODEL DR165

I had the same problem. It was fixed under warranty. It was some sort of alignment problem. It would not play SOME commercially produced DVD's either.

SOURCE: My LG LRH-880 HDD/DVD recorder

Somehow, my HDD/DVD recorder recorded correctly 2 times last night, even if I did not do anything specific to fix. I will keep an eye on new occurences of this problem, but it appears at the moment that the issue disappeared by itself.

SOURCE: After recording a one hour episode, won't recognize the dvd.

Try inserting your DVD media into the PC and doing a 'quick format'. The LG is not seeing what it considers to be media that it can use. It is not seeing that you have inserted recordable media. Sometimes you can reformat the DVD or do a quick media erase, and the LG can then put on its blank "squares" that is uses for its menu selection. I think that it what it does when it 'initializes' a new media.
tom

SOURCE: LG TV 42LB1DR INITIALIZATION PROBLEM

mine did the same thing once, I unplugged it long enough to make sure it shuts down all the way and let it reset itself. Turned it back on and it was and is fine [it's been 2 mos. now] That worked this time.
Last time one of my kids spilled something down the back and it gradually went out. 600.00 to have the part replaced.



oz

SOURCE: bd370 freeze

your lacer needs to be clean or it has to be replace