On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on
> > my
> > computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the
> > *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98,
> > and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a DVD-R on it; I'm
> > just wondering my none of my players won't play it.
>
> Different region? Most players are locked to a certain region, and won't
> play disks from other regions. Although it is possible to install
> upgraded or modified firmware that removes the region encoding, that
> usually needs a windows program. And it can brick your player when done
> incorrectly.
>
> Roland
I just realized that last night the DVD jumped right into the Start of
the film. No FBI threats of extraordinary rendition to those who would
copy, no pre-list of places to jump to. The extra features were at the
end, only. So it's probably a bad disc.
Also, the few time I tried different players--vlc first, the player
locked up and the DVD tray was wegded. Doing a shutdown I was the
console spitting out "DMA error" type strings. So ... while *usually*
our players are fault tolerant, not in this case. Since it's awhile
until
2013, I'm not going to bother asking the library for another copy.
thanks, gents,
gary
PS: I just tried of of the few DVD's i have [thank-you, PBS], "Keltic
Woman"; works flawlessly. {mm-BAR}, :-)
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