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, June 2, 2004 11:22 PM

I'm guessing that my problem is the fact that the disc has been programmed wrong. My first thought was, as several others have pointed out, that my DVD player was the problem. It does on occasion act kind of weird. But, I tried the same disc on my parents new DVD player, and my PS2 as well, and neither of them would load either. I ordered mine from Wal-Marts website, and they've been very helpful since I fisrt called them. I would have had my new set already if they wouldn't have forgot to send a return label with my first set. I had to wait a few days for them to send one out. I should have my new set in about a week or so. Here's hoping this one isn't defective!

"How drunk was I last night?"

STICKS

Monday, June 7, 2004 9:45 AM

at the end of the day the discs are made by FOX !
nuff said.

CDARREN

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 2:33 AM

I had the identical problem. I am using a Denon 2900 DVD player. I have had the firmware upgraded in the Denon, and I had Amazon replace my set of DVDs and nothing fixes the problem. There must be an error in how the Denon unit is handling the format of the disk. It would be good to know if you are also using a Denon player.

Regards
cdarren

INSANESPIKE

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 3:30 AM

Nope, I'm using a older model GE player.

"How drunk was I last night?"

XITHOR

Friday, June 11, 2004 7:09 AM

I've had problems with three of the Buffy seasons (including disk two season six - skips at the beginning of "once more with feeling"), an Angel Season, a Futurama season, and my Fellowship of the Ring set. The common link for all four is I got them from Amazon.

When I've exchanged all my disks at local stores (to impatient to wait for the postal service), I've had no problems, everything worked fine.

This means that either Amazon is playing hockey with my stuff before they ship it, or my mail carrier has it out for me.

ANGELDOVE

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:29 AM

Hi, mine is just two questions for those who have the Season 6 DVD's

1 Is the extended 53 minute version of OMWF on it?
2 I recently saw a fan vid using behind the scenes images from OMWF and I was wondering if these came from the DVD set? If you haven't seen this fanvid, you must. Its the last on the page at the following link 'Something To Sing About'

http://blah-mah-gah.net/storyteller/buffy.php

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

JMARTINE3592

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 7:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Angeldove:
Hi, mine is just two questions for those who have the Season 6 DVD's

1 Is the extended 53 minute version of OMWF on it?
2 I recently saw a fan vid using behind the scenes images from OMWF and I was wondering if these came from the DVD set? If you haven't seen this fanvid, you must. Its the last on the page at the following link 'Something To Sing About'

For number one, yes it is the full version. Number, i have no idea. There is a featurette for Once More With Feeling that is about 30 mins. Also, a easter egg from the CD signing. A bit off topic, but the Bargaining episode has a scene cut from it on the dvd. Where Willow kills the deer, this is mentioned in the commentary. Marti Noxon says that the scene was too graphic and removed completely. So, it's nowhere... not on FX, not on UPN, not on the DVD. I remember seeing the full scene though, which is still okay.

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

ANGELDOVE

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:25 PM

Thank you for replying with the info, does the OMWF featurette show them recording and practicing the dance stuff?

Its not like one day I won't buy the DVD without this info, I'm just curious. Also I wanted to know about the OMWF extended version because I have the OMWF, Hush, & original pilot DVD, which I considered selling, only if the uncut version of OMWF was on there.

BTW, anyone seen the unaired pilot? It was awfull! And I have never said anything Whedon has done was awfull, but this truely was. If you haven't seen it and want to, you can download it from buffy.nu, it has a different Willow, no Angel, and different library. As well as very cheesey vamp dusting. For those who had problems with how vamps' clothes dusted along with the vamp, this will show you why they decided to ignore this 'problem' and I am glad they did.
http://www.buffy.nu/article.php3?id_article=3590

Also, for anyone interested the site also contains the original Buffy/Spike sex scene from Smashed that was censored (therefore the uncensored version). I think it is evident why they made the choice to remove it.
http://www.buffy.nu/article.php3?id_article=1784

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

PERIDIDDLE

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:19 AM

A bit late, but I thought I'd chime in with my bit...

I don't have any trouble with my season 6 DVDs. The disks seemed firmly in place when I opened the box, and I'm using a Sanyo DVD player (probably a model made in 2003, as I got it new for Christmas). I did, though, have a bad season 3 set...the last disk had glue or something on it, and started skipping around Graduation, Part 2. We tried to fix it, and totally screwed up the disk. Tried to fix it another way, looked fine, but didn't work. So we exchanged it. Yeah. Pointless story. WOOT!

The deer killing scene is on the season 6 DVD...I vividly remember seeing it. Made me feel bad about Willow for a moment there...

And the OMWF featurette shows clips of recordings and dance rehersals. It's lots of fun, really.

"Bwaa...it's kind of a warrior...strikes fear into the hearts of..."

DONTBUYBESTBUY

Friday, July 30, 2004 8:26 PM

Just to add my experience and 2 cents...I also had problems right out of the box with season 6 disc 2. Naturally I wanted to watch OMWF, so it was the first one I tried. It had been secure in the box when I got it, not flopping around, but the disc simply will not play back in my APEX AD-1200. I have never had any problems with this DVD player before, and own 100+ DVD's, and many more VCD's & SVCD's, both factory silvers and discs I've burned myself. This player tolerates a wide range of CD-R/RW & DVD-R/RW media, but won't play disc 2. My parent's likewise own an APEX AD-1200. On theirs the disc jumps right into scene 1 of "Life Serial", and refuses to go to the menus. The disc does read and play back on my DVD-ROM and DVD-R/RW drive (both pioneer models). I would definitely say based on my experience (also tested the Xbox & PS2 DVD playback with mixed results) and what I've read here that there's some subtle manufacturing defect here. Why it seems to affect disc 2 most, I haven't a clue!

FWIW, I'm envious though of what I've read in numerous replies about those of you who have been able to exchange this title. To my chagrin, I purchased mine at Best Buy and they refused to exchange it FOR THE SAME PRODUCT because it plays back on their store unit and so, in their infinite expertise, it can't be defective! Mindlessly adhereing to this ill-considered policy against even a like-for-like exchange has to be the single worst (and dumbest) customer satisfaction strategy I've ever experienced. For anyone who has had an experience of their own with faulty playback and who knows this kind of defect can and does happen from time to time, I would strongly discourage you from doing your shopping for such products at Best Buy. Their policy will very likely be to your detriment if you should encounter a defect. I for one will never again do business with a retailer that singularly mistrusts consumers who are only asking to receive a product of useable quality. Fox (and the fabrication shops they use) may ultimately be to blame here, but Best Buy added insult to injury...now I'm out US$45.00 or so and will have to buy another set to get something I can watch on my home theater!!!

"Gee, can you vague that up for me?" -Buffy

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