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MARVEL · 12-09-2001, 10:20 AM

I am asking if some people seem to have the luck I do with disks that are deffective and just need to be replaced. Out of my collection of 300+ I seem to run into a bad disk every 20 or so disks. within the last couple of weeks I've had to take back Planet of the Apes and Ghosts of Mars cause they were bad pressings. Of course I learned to keep the good 'ol receipt whenever I get something new just in case.

BobaFett · 12-09-2001, 11:59 AM

i thought i got a bad disc once but after i returned it i realized the center channel speaker was not hocked up so the new one was working fine. so never

marty · 12-09-2001, 05:42 PM

I get bad disks at the same rate as you Marvel - about 1 in 20.

ShaneMcFarland · 12-10-2001, 06:33 AM

Out of 100+ titles....one. Saving Private Ryan had pixeling artifacts for me the first time around.

***1138*** · 12-10-2001, 06:52 AM

I've never run into one myself (cllsing in on 300 discs).

MARVEL · 12-10-2001, 07:25 AM

I've seen all kinds of crazy things. Pixel break ups, bad layer switches, audio dropouts of all different kinds, glitches that lead to a chpt just repeating over and over etc. etc. Every time I buy a new movie I wonder if it's gonna be bad and I'm going to have to make the long trip back to the store(not to mention wait to watch the movie even longer)and replace it. The replacement always works just fine but it scares me into thinking that my equipment is going and that would suck.

SolidSnakeASS · 12-10-2001, 05:44 PM

I have only run into 2. 1 I bought, and 1 I rented.

pdjennings · 12-10-2001, 06:09 PM

I've only hit about 3 or 4,.... out of over 1200 so far. Granted, I'm sure there are some movies &/or features that I haven't watched every single second of.... so there could (in theory) be others.

slade · 12-11-2001, 07:58 AM

Two, only very minor glitches.

Snow White--subtitles come on at layer change.

Planet of the Apes---kicked back to menu at layer change--started right back at the layer change without a problem.

I own about 60 and have rented about 100 (rough guesstimate).

NotEd · 12-11-2001, 05:19 PM

I've had 2 out of a little over 100.

1. Heathers (Tin) - Just got it and will exchange the DVd through Anchor Bay, as detailed on their site.

2. Farscape #3 - Closed Captions were corrupted. Exchanged thru ADV Films and the new one works fine! (I was afraid they were working from a defective master, since I tried another copy from another store and it had the same glitch.)

I've had a few damaged ones besides these, but they were due to buying pre-viewed ones or ones in damaged cases.

Matthew D · 12-12-2001, 10:23 AM

I have close to 400 DVDs in my collection and only five were originally defective and had to be returned for replacement. The replacements were all perfect.

***1138*** · 12-12-2001, 06:06 PM

Welcome to the forum Matthew D!

Mr. McMinn · 12-13-2001, 12:38 AM

Until recently, everything had been playing fine. Until I got POTA.
I took it back and got a new copy and it worked fine. Then there was Apocalypse Now Redux. I went through three copys of that before I got my money back. Now, it is Play Misty For Me. The audio fades in and out towards the end of the film and it begins to pause alot and stop completely. I will return it to Suncoast Friday. Other than that, I have had no problems with my other movies. They all work fine except the 3 above.

synapse · 12-13-2001, 12:45 AM

I've never had any totally defective discs. I've had a couple that have caused the player to go wacky, but it was an isolated event. I think it was just a crappy player.

Marty McFly · 12-19-2001, 10:49 PM

I've only had one problem, and that was with my first Ghostbusters SE disc. The menus didn't work right, and halfway through the sound wasn't in place with the film. Exchanged it and the new one was fine.

Batnight · 12-22-2001, 05:55 PM

I noticed when I watched my new 'The Haunting' DVD. One of the scenes from one of the last chapters, the image started breaking up into little tiny blocks. I guess this would be a pixelation prob. But I rewound it and played it again and it was fine. I played the same scene a couple more times and it was great. I guess that happens every now and then with a DVD player right? I've had mine for over 2 years now. And the DVD player still works great. I love my Toshiba.

werther · 12-23-2001, 10:55 AM

too often

JLPicard · 12-23-2001, 06:51 PM

I've never had a defective disk, and I've got a little over 200 DVDs.

I did, however, have a scratched copy of Akira in the special edition tin. The first disc had worked off the hub and the hub scratched it all to hell and back.

Thankfully, the store I bought it at got another copy in two days later and held a copy for me so I could exchange it....

Batnight · 12-24-2001, 06:07 AM

When I ordered my Puppet Master DVD box set, part 4 had come off the thing and it had shaken around in there and made some minor scratches. Nothing too bad thankfully. Sometimes that will happen, thankfully anytime thats happened it's not too bad and doesnt effect the play.

Underpants · 12-24-2001, 06:36 AM

Out of over 150 discs since February 2000, only two.

Rambling Rose - Nothing in layer 2 would play. Tried another that did the same thing. Gave up.

T2 UE - One trailer wouldn't play. I wasn't gonna worry about it but ended up using it as an excuse to return the disc for cash at Wal Mart (The addition of the disc's enclosed letter that said there could be problems is what got me my money back

)

Nome King · 12-24-2001, 05:21 PM

I just bought T2 Ultimate Edition Saturday night with some Christmas money. It turned out disc two was not working very well in my player. I know there is a note inside the package that says "may have trouble playing in some players" but I had borrowed a friend's copy and rented it and it worked fine. So I took it back and the new copy worked fine. That was my first defective disc.

dvds'r'us · 12-26-2001, 12:12 AM

The only disc i've ever had problems with was the dvd:

Space Camp - Made by anchor bay. I put it in about 4-5 minutes in it kept skipping chapters back and forth.

that's out of 89 titles.

I bought it online at ebay new so I went to the anchor bay website and they said just send it to them (disc only) and they will send a new one for free. I am still waiting for it though, even though I sent it out 1 month ago. oh well.

JLPicard · 12-26-2001, 12:15 AM

Speaking of T2: Ultimate Edition, I've got the DVD-18 disc they produced of it..the one with dual layers on both sides.

I've noticed, that whether it's in my Panasonic A115 or my Samsung DVD-1000, menu access is always as slow as Christmas. Transitions seem to lag for up to five seconds after I press the Enter key on the remote.

Anybody else have this problem, or is it just me?

dvds'r'us · 12-26-2001, 12:37 AM

not me. i have the same disc as yours. but then again i've only played it once and haven't tried out alot of stuff.

Velvet G · 12-26-2001, 02:33 PM

I have 307 discs and only had one bad one. My Predator DTS disc came loose in shipping and got scratched inside the case.

I guess I've been lucky

(edited for spelling)

Sharksrule · 12-26-2001, 05:45 PM

Im new to DVD, what are some signs of a 'bad disc".

Avid · 12-27-2001, 08:16 AM

Rented Chasing Amy and that broke up into a ton of pixels. After that I made a mad dash to watch all the DVDs that where piling up that I had bought but not watched.

Good Will Hunting had a jump in the picture. The replacement for it had the exact same jump (not at the layer change) and the picture broke up in one of the extras.

Picture froze and then jumped ahead on Detroit Rock City.

I had rented both Good Will Hunting and Detroit Rock City before buying so I was tired of both of them and happy they offered to replace my money instead of the disks again.

As a result of all this: 1) I now no longer rent most movies I want to buy, and I hope I don't get burned on the transfer. 2) This has slowed down buying my collection. I hate having to check every thing in 30 days and I have bunch piled up again.

Maximum Jonah · 12-27-2001, 06:22 PM

Out of about 130 DVD's, I've only had one that didn't work. I bought Star Wars: The Phantom Menace from Costco. The first time that I played it, the menu's became pixelated and would not play. I re-inserted it, and then the trailers would not play. So I returned it for a replacement. Same thing happened. On the third try, I checked it out in the store before I took it home. Never had a problem again.

Mutara_Nebula · 12-29-2001, 12:46 AM

One bad egg out of about 100 discs so far. Had a problem with Doctor Zhivago. Very minor, but got it replacecd

ctsrkid · 12-31-2001, 05:29 AM

Out of my 50 or so DVDs, I've had two bad apples...

My Austin Powers 2 perpetually freezes up in my RCA DVD player, yet it doesn't when I run it on my DVD-ROM drive.

My copy of Pleasantville has a weird quirk too -- on my RCA DVD player, it misses a chapter at the layer change. No problems on the DVD-ROM drive.

Yet, I haven't had any other problems with my RCA player -- so I can't reduce it to a hardware or software problem.

Ambushbug · 01-01-2002, 05:56 PM

I just had my first non-rental problem disc. My sis got me the Dune mini-series two disc set, and disc 2 looks like the skin of an orange!

The disc skips chapters, freezes, and pixelates. Bad.

I'm not sure if I should ship it back to Amazon, or send it to Artisan directly. Anyone have any advice?

AB

***SeanL*** · 01-04-2002, 05:08 PM

1 disc out of 168

12-09-2001, 10:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
MARVEL Actor Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 30 miles north of Cinderella's castle, FL	How often do find you have a defective disc? I am asking if some people seem to have the luck I do with disks that are deffective and just need to be replaced. Out of my collection of 300+ I seem to run into a bad disk every 20 or so disks. within the last couple of weeks I've had to take back Planet of the Apes and Ghosts of Mars cause they were bad pressings. Of course I learned to keep the good 'ol receipt whenever I get something new just in case. __________________ F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E Florida State, Florida State, Florida State, WHOOOOO!!!! You've got to Fight Fight Fight ........

12-09-2001, 11:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
BobaFett Moderator Emeritus Join Date: May 2001 Location: Longview, Texas	i thought i got a bad disc once but after i returned it i realized the center channel speaker was not hocked up so the new one was working fine. so never __________________ - Ex-Moderator Star Wars Forum I am a leaf on the wind watch how I fly...... RIP Wash......... Firefly Freak

12-10-2001, 06:52 AM	#5 (permalink)
*1138* Producer/Admin Careful, or I'll ban myself... Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: San Jose, CA	I've never run into one myself (cllsing in on 300 discs). __________________ Administrator I got a rock and roll band. I got a rock and roll life. I got a rock and roll girlfriend. And another ex-wife.

12-10-2001, 07:25 AM	#6 (permalink)
MARVEL Actor Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 30 miles north of Cinderella's castle, FL	I've seen all kinds of crazy things. Pixel break ups, bad layer switches, audio dropouts of all different kinds, glitches that lead to a chpt just repeating over and over etc. etc. Every time I buy a new movie I wonder if it's gonna be bad and I'm going to have to make the long trip back to the store(not to mention wait to watch the movie even longer)and replace it. The replacement always works just fine but it scares me into thinking that my equipment is going and that would suck. __________________ F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E Florida State, Florida State, Florida State, WHOOOOO!!!! You've got to Fight Fight Fight ........

12-10-2001, 06:09 PM	#8 (permalink)
pdjennings Actor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Washington, DC	I've only hit about 3 or 4,.... out of over 1200 so far. Granted, I'm sure there are some movies &/or features that I haven't watched every single second of.... so there could (in theory) be others. __________________ *Can someone explain to me why "movie fans" on the Internet seem to hate* every movie they see? The PDJ Collection™ - 3,068** DVDs and counting...

12-09-2001, 05:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
marty Actor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Massachewsets	I get bad disks at the same rate as you Marvel - about 1 in 20.

12-10-2001, 06:33 AM	#4 (permalink)
ShaneMcFarland Actor Join Date: Oct 2001	Out of 100+ titles....one. Saving Private Ryan had pixeling artifacts for me the first time around.

12-10-2001, 05:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
SolidSnakeASS Actor Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Winterpeg, Manitobaugh, Canada	I have only run into 2. 1 I bought, and 1 I rented.

12-11-2001, 07:58 AM	#9 (permalink)
slade Film Class God Join Date: May 2001 Location: Oregon City, OR	Two, only very minor glitches. Snow White--subtitles come on at layer change. Planet of the Apes---kicked back to menu at layer change--started right back at the layer change without a problem. I own about 60 and have rented about 100 (rough guesstimate). __________________ It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot's description of television

12-11-2001, 05:19 PM	#10 (permalink)
NotEd NotActor Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Spittin' distance from Washington, DC	I've had 2 out of a little over 100. 1. Heathers (Tin) - Just got it and will exchange the DVd through Anchor Bay, as detailed on their site. 2. Farscape #3 - Closed Captions were corrupted. Exchanged thru ADV Films and the new one works fine! (I was afraid they were working from a defective master, since I tried another copy from another store and it had the same glitch.) I've had a few damaged ones besides these, but they were due to buying pre-viewed ones or ones in damaged cases. __________________ "We fear change." -Garth Algar My horribly neglected DVD list

12-12-2001, 10:23 AM	#11 (permalink)
Matthew D Supporting Actor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Rockland County, New York	I have close to 400 DVDs in my collection and only five were originally defective and had to be returned for replacement. The replacements were all perfect.

12-12-2001, 06:06 PM	#12 (permalink)
*1138* Producer/Admin Careful, or I'll ban myself... Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: San Jose, CA	Welcome to the forum Matthew D! __________________ Administrator I got a rock and roll band. I got a rock and roll life. I got a rock and roll girlfriend. And another ex-wife.

12-13-2001, 12:38 AM	#13 (permalink)
Mr. McMinn I'm all out of bubblegum Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: --lying dead on the rooftop of Cable 54	Until recently, everything had been playing fine. Until I got POTA. I took it back and got a new copy and it worked fine. Then there was Apocalypse Now Redux. I went through three copys of that before I got my money back. Now, it is Play Misty For Me. The audio fades in and out towards the end of the film and it begins to pause alot and stop completely. I will return it to Suncoast Friday. Other than that, I have had no problems with my other movies. They all work fine except the 3 above.

12-13-2001, 12:45 AM	#14 (permalink)
synapse Actor Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Jose, CA (Next to Milpitas)	I've never had any totally defective discs. I've had a couple that have caused the player to go wacky, but it was an isolated event. I think it was just a crappy player. __________________ Dammit woman! You've impeded my work since the day I came out of your wretched womb!

12-19-2001, 10:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
Marty McFly Moderator Emeritus Geezer Emeritus Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Somewhere Between Hell and Hill Valley	I've only had one problem, and that was with my first Ghostbusters SE disc. The menus didn't work right, and halfway through the sound wasn't in place with the film. Exchanged it and the new one was fine. __________________ Marty McFly - Forum Moderator Emeritus Granny, I'm gonna catch me some Vietcong! Well I ain't cookin' 'em!

12-22-2001, 05:55 PM	#16 (permalink)
Batnight Banned Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NC	I noticed when I watched my new 'The Haunting' DVD. One of the scenes from one of the last chapters, the image started breaking up into little tiny blocks. I guess this would be a pixelation prob. But I rewound it and played it again and it was fine. I played the same scene a couple more times and it was great. I guess that happens every now and then with a DVD player right? I've had mine for over 2 years now. And the DVD player still works great. I love my Toshiba.

12-23-2001, 10:55 AM	#17 (permalink)
werther Actor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany	too often __________________ Movielovers are very sick people My DVD Collection

12-23-2001, 06:51 PM	#18 (permalink)
JLPicard Supporting Actor Join Date: Dec 2001	I've never had a defective disk, and I've got a little over 200 DVDs. I did, however, have a scratched copy of Akira in the special edition tin. The first disc had worked off the hub and the hub scratched it all to hell and back. Thankfully, the store I bought it at got another copy in two days later and held a copy for me so I could exchange it....

12-24-2001, 06:07 AM	#19 (permalink)
Batnight Banned Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NC	When I ordered my Puppet Master DVD box set, part 4 had come off the thing and it had shaken around in there and made some minor scratches. Nothing too bad thankfully. Sometimes that will happen, thankfully anytime thats happened it's not too bad and doesnt effect the play.

12-24-2001, 06:36 AM	#20 (permalink)
Underpants Banned Join Date: Nov 2001	Out of over 150 discs since February 2000, only two. Rambling Rose - Nothing in layer 2 would play. Tried another that did the same thing. Gave up. T2 UE - One trailer wouldn't play. I wasn't gonna worry about it but ended up using it as an excuse to return the disc for cash at Wal Mart (The addition of the disc's enclosed letter that said there could be problems is what got me my money back )

12-24-2001, 05:21 PM	#21 (permalink)
Nome King Actor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Fort Worth, Texas	I just bought T2 Ultimate Edition Saturday night with some Christmas money. It turned out disc two was not working very well in my player. I know there is a note inside the package that says "may have trouble playing in some players" but I had borrowed a friend's copy and rented it and it worked fine. So I took it back and the new copy worked fine. That was my first defective disc. __________________ This is pretty good watermelon..........tastes like poop!

12-26-2001, 12:12 AM	#22 (permalink)
dvds'r'us Actor Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: St. Louis Area	The only disc i've ever had problems with was the dvd: Space Camp - Made by anchor bay. I put it in about 4-5 minutes in it kept skipping chapters back and forth. that's out of 89 titles. I bought it online at ebay new so I went to the anchor bay website and they said just send it to them (disc only) and they will send a new one for free. I am still waiting for it though, even though I sent it out 1 month ago. oh well. __________________ Dave Matthews Band Forever! 31 Shows And Counting! 20,000 Miles travelled...Shows Seen

12-26-2001, 12:15 AM	#23 (permalink)
JLPicard Supporting Actor Join Date: Dec 2001	Speaking of T2: Ultimate Edition, I've got the DVD-18 disc they produced of it..the one with dual layers on both sides. I've noticed, that whether it's in my Panasonic A115 or my Samsung DVD-1000, menu access is always as slow as Christmas. Transitions seem to lag for up to five seconds after I press the Enter key on the remote. Anybody else have this problem, or is it just me?

12-26-2001, 12:37 AM	#24 (permalink)
dvds'r'us Actor Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: St. Louis Area	not me. i have the same disc as yours. but then again i've only played it once and haven't tried out alot of stuff. __________________ Dave Matthews Band Forever! 31 Shows And Counting! 20,000 Miles travelled...Shows Seen

12-26-2001, 02:33 PM	#25 (permalink)
Velvet G Actor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Asteroid M (sometimes the philly suburbs when it gets too hot)	I have 307 discs and only had one bad one. My Predator DTS disc came loose in shipping and got scratched inside the case. I guess I've been lucky (edited for spelling)

12-26-2001, 05:45 PM	#26 (permalink)
Sharksrule Supporting Actor Join Date: Nov 2001	Im new to DVD, what are some signs of a 'bad disc".

12-27-2001, 08:16 AM	#27 (permalink)
Avid Actor Join Date: Nov 2001	Rented Chasing Amy and that broke up into a ton of pixels. After that I made a mad dash to watch all the DVDs that where piling up that I had bought but not watched. Good Will Hunting had a jump in the picture. The replacement for it had the exact same jump (not at the layer change) and the picture broke up in one of the extras. Picture froze and then jumped ahead on Detroit Rock City. I had rented both Good Will Hunting and Detroit Rock City before buying so I was tired of both of them and happy they offered to replace my money instead of the disks again. As a result of all this: 1) I now no longer rent most movies I want to buy, and I hope I don't get burned on the transfer. 2) This has slowed down buying my collection. I hate having to check every thing in 30 days and I have bunch piled up again. __________________ OAR or :barf:

12-27-2001, 06:22 PM	#28 (permalink)
Maximum Jonah Starring Claude Rains Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada	Out of about 130 DVD's, I've only had one that didn't work. I bought Star Wars: The Phantom Menace from Costco. The first time that I played it, the menu's became pixelated and would not play. I re-inserted it, and then the trailers would not play. So I returned it for a replacement. Same thing happened. On the third try, I checked it out in the store before I took it home. Never had a problem again.

12-29-2001, 12:46 AM	#29 (permalink)
Mutara_Nebula Sauce for the Goose Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: American Northwest	One One bad egg out of about 100 discs so far. Had a problem with Doctor Zhivago. Very minor, but got it replacecd

12-31-2001, 05:29 AM	#30 (permalink)
ctsrkid Supporting Actor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Saskatchewan, Canada	Two! Out of my 50 or so DVDs, I've had two bad apples... My Austin Powers 2 perpetually freezes up in my RCA DVD player, yet it doesn't when I run it on my DVD-ROM drive. My copy of Pleasantville has a weird quirk too -- on my RCA DVD player, it misses a chapter at the layer change. No problems on the DVD-ROM drive. Yet, I haven't had any other problems with my RCA player -- so I can't reduce it to a hardware or software problem.

01-01-2002, 05:56 PM	#31 (permalink)
Ambushbug Actor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: No Name City. Population: Nuts	I just had my first non-rental problem disc. My sis got me the Dune mini-series two disc set, and disc 2 looks like the skin of an orange! The disc skips chapters, freezes, and pixelates. Bad. I'm not sure if I should ship it back to Amazon, or send it to Artisan directly. Anyone have any advice? AB __________________ "I'm an ex-citizen of nowhere; and sometimes I get mighty homesick." Ben Rumson, "Paint Your Wagon"

01-04-2002, 05:08 PM	#32 (permalink)
*SeanL* Producer/Admin Got BMG? Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: NW Florida	1 disc out of 168 __________________ Forum Administrator "You can never go home again, Oatman... but I guess you can shop there."