My DVD pot was (original) at 796 ohms, and the CD pot was at 1265 ohms.
As I’ve always heard that both pots have to stay around 1200 ohms, I thought that the DVD value was weird.
So I decided to change the DVD pot to 1100ohms to see what will happen, and it has worked fine (including DVDR).

So I’d like to know if there is any kind of problem using the resistance above the default limit, and if the laser will have more lifetime, because I’m reducing the laser temperature.

What do you think about it?

(the PS2 is a V1)