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If you have a DVD that won't play back the last parts of a program, take it out of the DVD player or the PC when it fails and place it between two good, factory labeled, or even new blank disks. It will be hot! Heat is what causes the distortion of the label. Hold the three disks between your thumb and forefinger and look at the disks from the edge. If you see only two disks, one double thick on and one normal one, take the disc from the middle (the one that wouldn't play) and turn it over. Place it back between the two good discs and the other disc will now be twice as thick as the other one. The center disk has become a "saucer." If you do this with three new dics, the distance between the three will be the same (equidistant.) If you play a commercially label disk, then place it between the two blanks, he equidistant discs will be the same as three cold or factory ones. The distortion pulls the media out and away from the pick up laser. The outer portion is where the distortion is the greatest, and where the end of the program material resides on the disc. If your car CD won't play your homemade mixes with the paper labels, check them the same way. The home CD players don't get as hot and don't usually show the problem the way car CD players do.
The answer: Don't use paper adhesive labels on CDs or DVDs! All label manufacturers claim to have solved the adhesive problems that caused earlier labels to jam up disc players. Also, the unbalance issue of applied labels has also been dismissed. The distortion of a disc by the different shrink rate of a paper label vs the plastic, sandwiched disc material, however, has been quietly avoided while unsuspecting consumers throw away old VHS tapes after coping them to DVD. Unfortunately, after labeling the old, treasured films, now on DVD, they are only as good as the first half of the material on the disc.
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