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i'm looking for a list (it it exists) of all dvds with known compatablity problems with certain players. does anyone know of a link to one?
cheers
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No idea, but buy a Sony and you won't have any problems :p
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i'm not having problems. i sold a disc to someone else and they had problems with it (nightmare on elm street) only playing one chapter at a time. i'm looking to see if this disc has known compatiblity problems before i sell it to anyone else. I had no problems with the disc in my philips player.
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I've also heard of other people having the same problems with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', although my copy plays well on my Sony, and also has no problems on a Wharfdale and a Panasonic.
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http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/index.cgi?page=BugReports
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Originally posted by DeadKenny
No idea, but buy a Sony and you won't have any problems :p
what a stupid comment - buy a sony off the shelf from the high street and then put a R1 disc in it... see how you get on
:nono:
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Originally posted by orac
what a stupid comment - buy a sony off the shelf from the high street and then put a R1 disc in it... see how you get on
:nono:
Depends where you get it from on the high street ;)
We're talking compatibility with regards to problem discs, not region compatibility, which everyone knows full well about :rolleyes:.
If he wants to play multi-region discs, then gets a multi-region Sony, he'll have no problems. If he wants to play just R2, and gets an off-the-shelf high-street Sony, he'll have no problems.
My more serious point though is that for a list of bugs with certain players, you can ignore Sony as there are no problems (that's what you get for buying from someone who were jointly responsible for the DVD standard).
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Originally posted by orac
what a stupid comment - buy a sony off the shelf from the high street and then put a R1 disc in it... see how you get on
:nono:
I've never had a jot of trouble with my multiregion Sony 325 and R1 discs. An oldie, but a goodie. :)
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ok I revise what i said -- go and buy a sony dvd player from the dixons group...
anyway yes I expect sony dvd players are good...
but I loathe people that bow down to the sony name...
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Never liked Sony at all. Pioneer all the way! :clap:
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Originally posted by DeadKenny
No idea, but buy a Sony and you won't have any problems :p
Except a year to 18 months down the road you might get C13:00 errors all the time like I did with my Sony 725-P. A common fault.
And I hope you're not including the PlayStation2 in that comment either!!
In terms of adherence to the DVD spec, Pioneer is the best brand I've found (I author DVD professionally BTW) and my 444 has been ultra-reliable and has handled everything I've chucked at it.
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The Matrix had some problems with certain players (my samsung 807 did). This was because of the seemless branching.
Other DVD's with branching had similar problems. My R1 T2 UE didn't work on the sammy 807 either.
I have had two sony players since then (525D and NS900). The only disc to play up was disc 3 of LOTR: FOTR EE. The disc skipped 10 seconds during a making off feature. It played fine in my other player, a Encore 450.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/index.cgi?page=BugReports
I found that list can be a little inaccurate. I had six of the discs mentioned for the sammy 807 and they worked fine. Sometimes, the problem can be just a dirty disc.
I don't think you will get many problem discs today unless the discs are faulty to start with. As long as the player can cope with seemless branching and other advanced fatures, it should be ok.
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The Matrix had some problems with certain players (my samsung 807 did). This was because of the seemless branching.
Other DVD's with branching had similar problems. My R1 T2 UE didn't work on the sammy 807 either.
I have had two sony players since then (525D and NS900). The only disc to play up was disc 3 of LOTR: FOTR EE. The disc skipped 10 seconds during a making off feature. It played fine in my other player, a Encore 450.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/index.cgi?page=BugReports
I found that list can be a little inaccurate. I had six of the discs mentioned for the sammy 807 and they worked fine. Sometimes, the problem can be just a dirty disc.
I don't think you will get many problem discs today unless the discs are faulty to start with. As long as the player can cope with seemless branching and other advanced fatures, it should be ok.
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Originally posted by Grandmaster
Except a year to 18 months down the road you might get C13:00 errors all the time like I did with my Sony 725-P. A common fault.
Sony 325 still going strong after 4 years. 200+ DVDs, no problems caused by bugs on discs.
And I hope you're not including the PlayStation2 in that comment either!!
Nope, I'm refering to DVD players ;)
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MY Sony 525D is probably around 3 years old and still works fine. I did get one C13 error but that was my fault and not the player.
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Originally posted by orac
I loathe people that bow down to the sony name...
Except for my surround sound system (Yamaha), all my A/V kit is Sony. Always has been, always will be. :) :norty: :clap: :thumbs: :notworthy :D
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Except for my surround sound system (Yamaha), all my A/V kit is Sony. Always has been, always will be.
All my main AV stuff is Sony. I wouldn't buy sony speakers though. I have always liked them and will carry on.
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I've had nothing but bad experiences with Sony's hardware (headphones, CD players, TV etc.), so I have decided never to buy a product with the Sony label on it ever again.
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Another Sony fan here. Perhaps I've been lucky but I just find their products reliable. I've got a 15 year old 25" tv that is still going strong (gave it to my daughter when I bought a 32" wega widescreen).
My mum has a 23 year old sony hi fi that I gave her 10 years ago when I decided to upgrade. Only thing that's ever gone wrong with that was the rechargeable batteries in the handset gave up and Sony only keep spares for 10 years after they stop making the product. However, a kind person made one up for me and it's still working. My current audio setup is Sony and that's 10 year old and still sounds great.
My dvd player is a multi region 525 and other than the old lip synch problem (which I found is easily corrected and only happens once in a bleem anyway) plays everything perfectly. Their combined remote control was bought for my wife and has done everything that I've asked of it and was easy to program.
Only thing I've been disappointed in has been their headphones. Gave up and bought Sennheiser instead. My mum has a sony video and that's worked very well for some time. The only reason I haven't got a sony video is that they don't make svhs. I've tried loads of makes of video and none lasted any length of time for me....particularly panasonic.
Still, to each their own, everyone has their preferences. Quite fancy one of their plasmas next..............
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Not a big fan of Sony myself...
As for compatibility The Simpsons Season 2 (R1) disc 1 doesn't play on a Wharfedale 750s - it just freezes after the spinning menu bit. Strangely the other discs play sans problemes :confused:
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My Sony S735d plays most discs superbly. However it fails to play six movies (of my 150 collection) correctly. They are all made by the one company!
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Originally posted by DeadKenny
No idea, but buy a Sony and you won't have any problems :p
I'll second that:clap:
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The problem I mentioned with my 725-P seems to be quite prolific if you Google it. There was even a thread on here once asking if Sony build in obsolescence into their DVD players! I honestly can't say that in my experience, they're the best DVD players. Certainly, the lower end models don't even feature RGB SCART - something even my £60 Naiko player bought from Safeways has!
In terms of compatibility between discs and DVD players, the reason there are discrepancies is because each manufacturer writes software the decodes what is on the DVD. Some get it right (as I said, I think Pioneer are the best) and some don't - the Wharfdale 750 is notorious as are early Samsungs without firmware upgrades and the PlayStation2 needed two driver revisions to get it sorted. The Xbox isn't too hot either, since this doesn't play back some subtitles.
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I remember alot of people had trouble playing Robocop on R2 on their Toshiba players, worked fine on my Sony though but then again i did lend it to my mate and it worked fine on his Toshiba player.:suspect:
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Has anyone else had problems playing the extended branching bit on Die Another Day?
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Originally posted by Marv
I remember alot of people had trouble playing Robocop on R2 on their Toshiba players, worked fine on my Sony though but then again i did lend it to my mate and it worked fine on his Toshiba player.:suspect:
I remember loads of wailing and gnashing of teeth on these very forums when this disk came out - it plays perfectly on both my Panny A160 and my Samsung S224.
My Samsung really doesn't like the R1 Clerks Animated - it freezes, changes angle and enables subtitles at every chapter change, never mind layer change, and it really ****** me off :( most disks you don't even notice the layer change, but others there's a 2-3 second freeze - annoying that it does it with some, but not others. It plays perfectly on the Panny and my Sony DVD-ROM.
The only player I have experienced that has had no problems playing disks is the Panasonic A160 - it's on the list in the above link, but every problem on the list has turned out to be a disk fault.
I've used Sonys, Wharfedales, Toshibas, Pioneers and Denons and each of those have had problems with disks that the others would play. the only downsides to the Panny A160 is that it has no RGB out (the S-Video is excellent apart from bleedy reds), and no VCD/SVCD support. There is a way to get round the VCD support by using certain brands of CDRW (but I haven't found one that works) and SVCD by de-multiplexing in TMPGEnc and re-multiplexing as MPEG-1, but for that to work, I stll need to find a brand of CDRWs that works.
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Originally posted by DeadKenny
No idea, but buy a Sony and you won't have any problems :p
Not true, i've had probelms with my Sony dvpns-300 and Shoalin Soccer :(
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Originally posted by Grandmaster
Certainly, the lower end models don't even feature RGB SCART - something even my £60 Naiko player bought from Safeways has!

:suspect: Other than the models that don't come with SCART sockets, such as the all-in-one home cinema kits (s-video instead), I'm not aware of any that don't support RGB. My parents bought a low-end model for aprox £100 (full multi-region, plays CD-R/CD-RW and MP3s), and it fully supports RGB. The only drawback I could see with the "budget" Sony was it didn't have a 2nd SCART for passthrough, but other than that it was superior in features to my old 325.
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Originally posted by Grandmaster
And I hope you're not including the PlayStation2 in that comment either!!

Just thought I'd mention that, whilst obviously an imperfect solution for movie-viewing, I have had absolutely no probs playing R1,R2,R3 and R4 dvds (and DVD-R's - legit I might add) on my (multi-regioned) PS2. Think it was just the earlier PS2's that were a bit dodgy.
Bloody noisy though!
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Originally posted by nwgarratt
MY Sony 525D is probably around 3 years old and still works fine. I did get one C13 error but that was my fault and not the player.
I have a Multi-region 525D as well, It's about 4 years old now & it still plays every DVD I've put in it. Shame it doesn't play CD-R's.
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Anyone else had problems with specific dvd distributors in UK?
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have a Multi-region 525D as well, It's about 4 years old now & it still plays every DVD I've put in it. Shame it doesn't play CD-R's.
It does, or rather it does work with one brand, try Princo discs.
Also, rewriteable discs work ok. I think it is because the discs are more reflective.
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Originally posted by Lee_eel
Anyone else had problems with specific dvd distributors in UK?
Technicolor, but that's another story (not player related, well not the "rot/sticky-whatever" damage , but then again people are having problems with the DS9 discs ).
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Originally posted by nwgarratt
It does, or rather it does work with one brand, try Princo discs.
Also, rewriteable discs work ok. I think it is because the discs are more reflective.
The same disks that work in this player also work with the Panny A160 it seems - not all CDR/Ws work, at least two brands I've tried so far don't. Look at the 'player compatibility list', 'user comments' on vcdhelp.com (http://www.vcdhelp.com) .