Dvd Players

[bloody_ribcut]

do any of you have the problem where some dvd's play ok, and then some movies change colors and the picture scrambles up?

like i can watch rambo, then when i try the exorcist everything goes to shits.

it's wierd because the movies that always scramble are warner brothers and universal films.

there real movies, not bootlegged so i dont know what the problem is.

anyone know how to fix it?

[ferretchucker]

are they from a different region? I know what your describing because it happens when my video player is on. Maybe that's the problem? Can't think why a DVD would do it unless it's scratched or something?

[bloody_ribcut]

there all NTSC, and in perfect shape...we just bought a different dvd player right now it's doing the same thing.

[pinkfloyd45769]

Yeah,this happens to me all the damn time.I am going to check which ones now.I thought it was just something wrong with the player.

[bloody_ribcut]

its a conspiracy.


i remember one time i bought a edward scissorhands, tried it and got the same scramble results. i thought it was the dvd and took it back for a different one, and it did it agin.

i dont know why, but i touched under the disc with my hands all over and it worked.

that was a twentyeth century fox.

[urgeok2]

check your player model online and see if there are any possible firmware upgrades ..

or - it could just be that the player has compatability issues - or it's dying

i have about 8 different DVD players in the house - from expensive set top burners to a cheap old apex - never had these problems on any of them.

[pinkfloyd45769]

If it needs a firmware upgrade...how do you do that?

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by pinkfloyd45769

If it needs a firmware upgrade...how do you do that?

there will be an executable file available (on the support web page for the player) and you'll have to put it on a CD - then pop the CD in the player - and sometimes his a sequence of buttons ..

thats what i had to do to make my Apex region free.


this isnt available for all players though ...

probably more common with hi-def or blu-ray players where the technology (and codec) is still changing and firmware has to be upgraded to catch up.

[Vodstok]

i have a cheapo dvd player (mintek) i got back in 2001 for free with a cell phone. For the most part it is okay, but some dvds, there is no rhyme or reason to this, wont pause. in order to pause a movie, we have to hit menu, which is annoying as hell on a lot of movies (A Knight's tale has the menu from hell, it has a loud snippet of music that loops pver and over)

At the time, it was $100 when most were 200 to 500. i had one i actually bought for 250, and it used to over heat after 2 movies, ofrcing me to switch to the other one....

And I am hardly the kind of person who watches one movie and is happy.

[urgeok2]

my first DVD player was a divx player ..

anyone in the USA remember these ?

you 'rented' divx movies from circuit city - it billed your credit card every time you watched it - you never had to bring it back ..

(i dont believe they ever found a hack for it either)

someone was bringing these players up here and selling them in flea markets - because they played regular DVDs ..

i bought one for $250 at a time when the players were closer to $600 - 700 or more.. it worked for a long while before having problems ..

then i bought the APEX on ebay for $75 many years ago ... i bought that particular model because you could hack it to play region free plus it did PAL/NTSC..

it's still running but it stops from time to time and i have to reverse and forward to get it going ... only use that one for pal movies now.