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"DVD Picture Quality"

My first posting on this forum so hi to everyone :-)

Just like to say 1st a thanks to Wookie for posting the info on the lip-sync workaround, tried it out last night and it worked fine....had a few problems with the "Shaft" DVD.

Only problem I now have is with my PS2 I get a black border appear at the top of the screen with white lines in it and the picture jumps a few times and then settles down for a while. I must get this about every 5 mins during the DVD, again I'm not really that worried because I have a dedicated DVD player but just wondered if anyone had experienced this as well.

The films that it does it on ranges from Gladiator, Jackie Brown, Shaft, Terminator etc although not all DVD's do it.

Any thoughts?

My first posting on this forum so hi to everyone :-)

Just like to say 1st a thanks to Wookie for posting the info on the lip-sync workaround, tried it out last night and it worked fine....had a few problems with the "Shaft" DVD.

Only problem I now have is with my PS2 I get a black border appear at the top of the screen with white lines in it and the picture jumps a few times and then settles down for a while. I must get this about every 5 mins during the DVD, again I'm not really that worried because I have a dedicated DVD player but just wondered if anyone had experienced this as well.

The films that it does it on ranges from Gladiator, Jackie Brown, Shaft, Terminator etc although not all DVD's do it.

Any thoughts?

Hi, get in touch with the Sony helpline, ull find it in the back of games manuals. Mine did the jumping thing and it was faulty, the just exchanged it for another on my doorstep, nice of them isn't it.

Thanks for the info.

Did Sony ask you to send it back via the post or was it a straight swap at your doorstep?

I don't think I can be without mine for more than a day!

Straight swap at the doorstep, they use AMTRAK to do the delivery, i phoned them on a thursday and got my new one on the tuesday, but that was on a bank holiday weekend.

Excellent, I'll give 'em a shout tomorrow and see what happens.

Thanks for the help!

Nope I have the gladiator and the terminator dvd and they seem to work fine.must be your console

Picture quality on the PS2 for movie playback is very,very poor- a dedicated hardware decoder is what you want, like what will be available for the GameCube.

Absolute BS - the playback is perfectly reasonable on PS2.

You can now take your PS2 back to where you got it from and they will exchange it for a brand new one. I had a launch day PS2 and after a couple of months it started playing up, so I called sony and they delivered a replacement (the replacement you will get from sony in a PS2 that was broke and then fixed by them, so second hand) the replacement was even worse than the first. In total I had 4 PS2 from them, each one was worse than the one before. I may be unlucky or maybe they are not very good at fixing them. If I were you I would call the place you got it from and see if they will exchange it for a new one. I got mine from Currys and they will change your old one for a new one, not a “reconditioned one”.

Well that’s good for Gamecube, but just one small problem it will not play DVD films!