Originally Posted by st5150

I'm in the same boat, also had mine for about a year. It reads the disc, maybe I can see one or two seconds of video before I get an error or freeze. Burns just fine though, but can't read CDs and DVDs. This POS 810A lasted 10 months, just like my POS 710A. On both drives, I never burned more than 50 DVDs and maybe 150 CDs. POS products if you ask me.