Finally got my copy of CE - but one disc won't play!
POSTED BY: EmmaZule
UPDATED: Sunday, November 4, 2007 17:44
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Dvd players NOT to buy:
Ilo (dvd-rw died 6 months after purchase)
Cyber Home (dvd-rw died 2 years after purchase)
Apex (dvd player died 1 year after purchase)
Best Dvd players:
Sony
Hitachi
Panasonic
Sanyo
G0-Video
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EmmaZule said:
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But when I try to play it in my DVD/VHS combo player at home, it doesn't even read. It'll attempt to load for like a minute or two, and then I'll get it giving me (I kid you NOT) a Blue Screen of Death - a literally BSOD-colored blue background, with an error message about how "This disc cannot be played. Please check the disc."
Well, guess what, I CHECKED the gorram disc, and it's ruttin' fine! Not a scratch or crumb or fingerprint on it. Brand spankin' new.
That kind of thing really damages my calm...and I should know, 'coz it happens to me fairly regularly. I, too, have a DVD/VCR combo (Sony), and the thing ain't been right since I got it home from Target. Depending on the weather (I think it largely boils down to humidity), I get the same sort of thing you described over half the time, with any disc...and it's caused me all manner of agitation. What I finally figured out is that if I'm gonna watch a DVD, I need to let the machine warm up - set to DVD mode - for about 30 minutes. It seems like a ridiculous thing to have to do (did I mention it's a Sony?), but it generally gets the job done.
It was like that when we got here!
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That kind of thing really damages my calm...and I should know, 'coz it happens to me fairly regularly. I, too, have a DVD/VCR combo (Sony), and the thing ain't been right since I got it home from Target. Depending on the weather (I think it largely boils down to humidity), I get the same sort of thing you described over half the time, with any disc...and it's caused me all manner of agitation. What I finally figured out is that if I'm gonna watch a DVD, I need to let the machine warm up - set to DVD mode - for about 30 minutes. It seems like a ridiculous thing to have to do (did I mention it's a Sony?), but it generally gets the job done.
Humidity?
Hmmmmm...
I live in Florida. Land of the Humid.
It's probably just because it's a cheap player, but yeah.
I'm tempted actually to save up and just buy an HD DVD player - Best Buy currently has a sale on an apparently pretty decent HD DVD player now, with no end date listed (seeing as it's the beginning of November, I doubt the price'll go higher before Christmas, as they're obviously hoping to lure folks in for Christmas shopping on this one). $199 (half of the lower-end Blu Ray players' costs - guess we know who's going to be pulling ahead in the race this winter...). Oh, and you get 7 HD DVDs with it - your choice of title, so long as it's not a boxset or preorder, two immediately, 5 by mail-in, off Best Buy's website stock for the format. Serenity is plenty eligable for this, and even though I don't have an HD set yet, I'm told the HD DVDs and players really do slightly improve video for even normal sets. It would certainly be nice to own, even if it means I will have officially quadruple-dipped on the BDM. Anyway though, those things support the older DVD disc standards as well, I'm told. The only thing they don't support (unless you actually bought one of those special, overpriced combo players) is Blu-Ray, if I'm not mistaken...
~Emma
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I currently have 8 dvd devices in the house and CE plays on six of the eight.
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check out this dvd f'up
so i got my parents a dvd player/ surround unit a while back. the brand name is GFM,(its a store brand, not sure who really made it)
it wil pretty much ONLY play burned dvd's
you can occaisionally get a factory disc to work, but not normally
isn't that like COMPLETELY backwards???
Make Cartoons, Not War
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