Thanks for your help dogdoctor! 😃

So I tried one last time at 2x speed with another one of my cheap ridata discs annnndddd… Same issue. But Iv noticed a pattern, which is that the freezing always happens (with every one of these cheap discs) at the halfway point in the movie for 2 or 3 chapters.

Now that I have done this and have this info, should I go through with purchasing the Amazon trusted (and slightly pricey) verbatim discs or is this another issue.

It’s a brand new burner (a couple days old, latest slim pioneer model, Best Buy) that seems to work fine. Iv tried the discs in a Samsung player, a Sony player and with my burner (software is PowerDVd 16) and the issue happens across the board. I really hope it’s the discs and hope to buy verbatim but the fact that it freezes at the middle of the film makes me worry about layer break issues?

Iv heard only a little bit of the term (layer break) thrown around so I don’t know what layer breaking is, how it’s an issue, if it originates in the Media, the burner or the player?

All in all, should I invest more dollars in verbatim discs, keeping all the info Iv given you in mind.