Well, one person used Memorex discs which aren't cheap no-name media and still had a problem on his HD-DVD player so I think it's something with the players. I'm going to try the DVD in my HD-XA2 tonight and see if I encounter the same issues. It worked fine on my Oppo upconverting player, but then again that machine accepts every disc I throw at it so that shouldn't come as a surprise. By the way, Ady, it was the NTSC version the people were having problems with.