"Bond Wave Set"- Problems

[Oberon2001]

I was curious to know if anyone who owns any Bond Special Edition DVDs have had any problems with any of the discs. The Man With The Golden Gun, which I have in the second set, freezes up during the layer chnage and from that point on it is pixelated and totally unworkable. Has anyone noticed anything like that on their copies or any of the Bond DVD's.

The player I am using is a RCA5220P. I have owned the player for close to 3 years, and this disc is the only problem. Every disc besides this one works perfectly with no problem..

Please let me know. Thanks....

[card_captor]

I have all of the Bond Movie Special Editions and they all play fine on my Toshiba SD2109.

[limacharliewhiskey]

Originally posted by Oberon2001
I was curious to know if anyone who owns any Bond Special Edition DVDs have had any problems with any of the discs. The Man With The Golden Gun, which I have in the second set, freezes up during the layer chnage and from that point on it is pixelated and totally unworkable. Has anyone noticed anything like that on their copies or any of the Bond DVD's.

The player I am using is a RCA5220P. I have owned the player for close to 3 years, and this disc is the only problem. Every disc besides this one works perfectly with no problem..

I don't have that particular Bond DVD, but I do have a similar player to yours, the RCA RC5210P, which is the previous year's model of yours. I've had mine for almost 4 years now.

For most of the time, my player has played just about everything I threw into it. Seamless branching, Inifinifilms, dual-layers, animated menus, just about everything. The only major glitches I had for the most part were a couple of scratched up rental DVDs, where it'd have a minor skip or jump, but never locking up.

In the past year, it's stuttered badly on two DVDs that I bought over a year ago (ID4 and Coyote Ugly). It played both DVDs fine when I bought them, but when I decided to play them again recently to watch their commentaries, my ID4 heavily pixellated and locked up in the 2nd half of the movie (probably after the layer change, around the 1 hr, 30 min. mark), the first time my player has ever frozen. I have about 150 DVDs, and I've probably played at least 500 rentals over the past 3 years in the machine, and nothing like this has happened before.

When I tried to play the Coyote Ugly DVD, it wouldn't even load up at all, telling me the disc is incompatible, like it's from another Region or something. Both DVDs look perfect and scratch-free, but then my player has had success playing scratched-up DVDs before, so it's not as much a factor for my player, I think.

These two major glitches have slowed down my purchases recently, but I've continued to rent movies, and so far, I've experienced no other glitches.

But my conclusion is that either my DVDs have begun to rot, or my player is starting to die on me or is becoming more sensitive to less-than-perfect DVDs.

I plan to pick up a cheap $100-130 player sometime this summer to test my DVDs in to see if the player is indeed the problem. After reading many DVD player reviews on Amazon, reading all of the problems that people have experienced, I guess I should be grateful that my RCA player lasted almost 4 years before it started choking on certain DVDs.

I tried the reinitialization sequence that I found on the RCA website, but it didn't change the behavior. I have a feeling that my laser alignment is off, and there's no recalibration menu that I know of (like what I've read about certain Sony models).

[Oberon2001]

Hey limacharliewhis,

Thanks for the update, I don't own Coyote Ugly, but I do own the ID4 special edition dvd. Mine works great, there was a minor glitch, started around chapter 32 (SE) and 33 (RE). But that was because of dust, other than that, no problems. I plan to buy the single-disc edition of ID4 and also of Planet of the Apes. I think this would be cool becuase both the single discs just have the movie and the commentary to be used basically a possible backups.

The problem with the Bond movie, as recently I found out, is due the player that I own, it was not the movie at all. The reason is RCA must have had some problem reading the last chapters in the The Man With The Golden Gun, and that's why the problem showed, and I was just curious to ask if anyone also had the same problem. The other Bond DVDs are working like a charm and they fantastic to watch, Highly recommended.

But, the RCA 5220P is a great player, and I really don't watch DVDs alot, I usually watch em maybe three movies within every two months and every disc that I own, I take great care of them and they all work like a charm (except TMWTGG).

Just wanted to pass that along......

[Zaphod]

This was indeed a known problem with early pressings of this movie , supposedly corrected later. They changed the encryption code at the layer change during the movie. Some players can handle it , some can't. My Sony player works fine but my PC-DVDroms with decoder cards choke on it. There was some sort of exchange program but it was poorly reported.A firmware upgrade might solve it but that is a major job on a standalone player. Other Bond problems were the missing scene on Never Say Never Again and that Casino Royale is region 2 and PAL.