To anyone who has the Buffy Season 6 DVD's....

POSTED BY: InsaneSpike
UPDATED: Monday, September 6, 2004 22:47
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INSANESPIKE

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:25 PM

Is anyone else out there having problems with disc 2 not working properly? For some odd reason, mine won't load to the disc menu. It either won't load at all, or starts me off right in the middle of OMWF. At first I thought maybe it was just my set, but I've heard of a few other people that have been having problems. Hopefully it's not a defective disc in every set....

"How drunk was I last night?"

LASHER99

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:09 PM

I bought the set yesterday and when I opened the package disc 2 was jostling around loose. No apparent scratches though. Just tried mine out in my standalone DVD player. When I tried to chapter-forward through the FBI warnings and such to the menu (which I can usually do without any trouble), I was dropped into the the first karoke selection for OMWF. I can see how you'd think this is midway through the episode, but if it is the same spot you ended up at(xander at the table), it is the start of a feature, not midway through the episode. I ejected the disc, tried again and let the disc play through and I got the main menu. All episodes and features play ok, but I notice a longer pause when browsing through menu categories than on the other DVD sets.

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:33 PM

My disc 2 works fine....

"I like smackin' 'em!" - Jayne Cobb

INSANESPIKE

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:13 PM

I tried both skipping through the title sequences and letting the disc play, and neither one worked for me. Whenever it would drop me into OMWF, it would either be at the cemteray scene at the beginning, or later on during the scene you mentioned. For some reason, the menu just will not come up on mine. But, if you guys have no trouble getting it to work, at least I know not ALL the sets are defective. Hopefully the next one that gets shipped to me will be one of the good ones!

Thanks guys!

"How drunk was I last night?"

JERSEYBROWNCOAT

Friday, May 28, 2004 2:10 AM

Thought I'd chime in that disc 2's working fine for me, but I encountered another problem...

I'm actually wondering if anyone was having problems with disc 5, particularly the episodes "Normal Again" and "Seeing Red." Lots of skips, jumps and pauses, after which I tried cleaning the disc; didn't help, so I exchanged it for a new set at Best Buy, only to have the same exactly problems in the same exact moments, frame for frame between the old disc and the new one. "Normal Again" was fairly easy to get around the skipping once I replaced the set, but "Seeing Red" has issues at least once a minute - pause, skip, jump ahead, constantly. Tried cleaning the disc, nada, and I don't really want to go back to Best Buy and exchange it *again*. Anyone know if there was a factory error with this one?

CATHERWOOD

Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:47 PM

We don't yet have our Season 6, but we did have a problem with disc two of Season 3. It looked like the disc had come loose in the box and was scraping against the spindle. You could see teeth marks all over the middle surface, and the center hole even has a slight crack in it. I don't remember how much of it played, but it definitely wouldn't play past a certain frame on either of the DVD players we tried it in.

We agonized about whether to go to the trouble of exchanging it, but then broke down and used a disc repair kit to buff the scratch out of the surface. It plays fine now.

TIMBEISHIR

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 4:50 PM

I have had nothing but problems with every season of Buffy since season 2. I have exchanged each season at least TWICE and now just open them while I am still in the store to avoid having to come back. If the disks are not sliding around loose, they're scratched anyway and some disks (like disk 3 of season 6) appear to have nothing wrong with them but still skip around. I, personally, am glad that there is only one more season to go because I am tired of going through this bull.

JMARTINE3592

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 4:56 PM

Okay, I'm finally glad someone posted this thread. For season three the Disc 2 was loose, out of the tray. I guess the company found out people were mad. So, they made sure the discs were securely in there, but now it's so hard to get 'em out you're afraid you might break it. Is it just me or does someone else feel that way? Also, if your disc is skipping and its perfectly clean, try taking it back to store or if worse comes to worse buy another one, because is programmed wrong. It could also be your DVD player, because when I watched seasons 1-5 on my old DVD player it always skipped, but I got a new one and they play fine now.

Jayne - "It smells like crotch..."
Kaylee - "Jayne!"

BIKISDAD

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:55 PM

Yes, the dvd player may be the actual problem for many people. I have had many problems playing my Buffy and Angel dvds on my own (older) player. However, when I play them on my brother's newer model (made by the same manufacturer), there's no problem at all. So before you (meant as "you", in general, not a specific person) start returning all of your dvd sets, try running the same disks in a newer model player. They may work fine.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

LIZ

Wednesday, June 2, 2004 6:15 PM

i know this is rather off-topic but i was just wondering if anyone out there had trouble with their Moulin Rouge DVD...? mine cut out half way through the movie, but there were no scratches. if anyone knows about this i would be grateful.

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