Rats

[stoutfellow]

For some years now I've made it a habit to celebrate the Fourth by watching 1776. Today, though, about an hour and a half in, the DVD started stuttering - pausing for a few seconds, resuming for a minute or two, and then repeating the process. I finally gave up. (It hadn't even gotten to either of my favorite numbers - "Momma, Look Sharp" and "Molasses to Rum".)

There are no visible blemishes on the DVD; I'll have to try some others to determine whether there's something wrong with the player.

Rats.

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Bummer. I'm not going to get a chance to watch it today at all. :(

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, how old is the DVD? (I have no pertinent data - trying to get some)

Providing some data, I have recently bought several Netflix used disks. Disks definitely were not without visible blemish :<). I have scrolled through most chapter breaks (except for 2 that just came) and watched a couple or three. So far, so good.

However, I did hear something years ago about the dyes having finite lifetimes. Don't know 1. how true that was and 2. whether or not recent dyes are better.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I bought it less than two years ago; before that, I used a videotape. (The DVD is the director's cut, about 20 minutes longer.) I gave the videotape to my brother when I got the DVD...

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Oh. Wow. I don't want to wish bad things on your player, but I hope it isn't a change in the DVD. Can you skip to the next chapter? Can it get dusty in there? If so, can one do anything about it. (I've had multi DVD players starting in '98, all except one in various computers, and I've not dusted any of them yet - I'm just grasping at straws.)

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

So, did it eventually work and allow you to finish the DVD? It is SO aggravating when that happens!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. My DVD player doesn't like Park and Lord. The only two DVDs it has ever refused to play were Chicken Run (bought used from a local video store) and Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (library copy).

Every other DVD (new, used, rental, library copy) I've ever put in it has played just fine...