Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear that. The N2000 doesn't play nicely with most DVD-R discs and the Toshiba can be hit or miss with DVD-Rs. And also can wear out a laser quite quickly. I refuse to use repro discs in my players after repro discs ruined both an N501 and SD-2300.
Repros ruined your 2300? I saved my originals, made duplicates of the main games, and play those on my 2300 fine. One thing about the 2300 is I did have to update the bios to play Tetris, so that might have helped.
I honestly doubt that the recorded dvd's are messing up peoples nuons. I have had 2 of them go out that never ever had dvd-rs in them. I think they just are not that durable.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.