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Post #86633

Author
DanielB
Parent topic
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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Date created
15-Jan-2005, 2:01 PM
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
IT'S NOT THE DVD THAT IS CAUSING THE PAUSE. IT'S THE PLAYER. SOME PLAYERS DON'T HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE DUAL LAYER CHANGE. SOME DO. KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU POST.
Dude, I'm not talking about the layer change, I'm talking about problems associated with: burning to lower-quality DVD-R's (even if they're good quality discs), problems associated with disc-rot (I returned a disc to the publisher due to rot and they never sent me a replacement, in the end I sent them a letter complaining about it and they eventually sent me a replacement - which by law they were required to do, and I might add that the title had become OOP), glue-setting (I'm convinced the glue had not set on the two copies of the same title I was forced to return to the store), labelling discs with stickers. Scratches, smudge-marks, dust etc. To talk about the two discs I had to return - they both stopped at the same point in the movie (a movie I had not previously seen!) The manager from the store I bought it said he'd had more than 20 returns from that product!

I eventually got a working copy from another store. Their instore-players had no problem playing the poor quality discs, but if you looked at them you could see the glue had not set - the manager agreed. It was one of those things that wouldn't effect every DVD-player, however the quality was still unacceptable.

-edit- and just so you know that it wasn't just my DVD-player, I tested the discs and they paused in my computer at the same points. The drive I was using was a 2-month old LiteOn DVD Burner.