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Of course I may be wrong, but that's my best guess.
Look here [URL]http://dvd.ign.com/articles/315/315957p1.html[/URL] and see the sorts of problems. The only thing to do is to get a standard DVD player, and with the prices they are now you could get a all singing and dancing one for under £80 which would even play DivX and Xvid as well as any DVD from around the world. £40 gives you a multi-regional player.
When I was first watching through it, it paused for about 3 seconds at this one point, and when I re-watched that bit, it did it again and again on that point. It then struggled to change chapter onto the next episode of the disc, just freezing.
I tried it on a different dvd player, and it worked OK, but I thought the disc could be defective in some way, so I sent it back and got a replacement.
But, the replacement disc had exactly the same kind of problem on one of my dvd players, so I guess it could have just been an incompatability problem between that one disc and my dvd player.
So that kind of thing can happen.
> I had a similar problem with one of my dvds a few months back.
>
> When I was first watching through it, it paused for about 3 seconds
> at this one point, and when I re-watched that bit, it did it again
> and again on that point. It then struggled to change chapter onto the
> next episode of the disc, just freezing.
>
> I tried it on a different dvd player, and it worked OK, but I thought
> the disc could be defective in some way, so I sent it back and got a
> replacement.
> But, the replacement disc had exactly the same kind of problem on one
> of my dvd players, so I guess it could have just been an
> incompatability problem between that one disc and my dvd player.
>
> So that kind of thing can happen.
Thanks a lot mate, I was actually considering buying the trilogy again if I couldn't fix it, you sure saved me a lot of money.
I remember watching my copy of Octopussy for the first time, and when Bond is driving through the streets with Vijay, the screen had all blocks and enlarged pixels over it, and looked corrupted.
I took the disc out, gave the player a good strong blow through, and it worked OK after that. Dust probably causes quite a few of those kinds of problems.
Hey, and guess what, they sell one right here.