ps2's suck in a ton of dust over the course of a year...you can take it apart and clean it really good, or just deal....make sure it isn't hooked up through your vcr and it hooks directly in to your tv (if it has the av hookup, cuz older tvs don't)...some dvd's have copy protection on them and won't play right when ran through anything like a vcr or whatever......i cleaned mine and it helped a lot