Why can't I play newer DVDs?

20 Feb 2005 2:43 AM

nooobody

I have trouble playing some newer movies on DVD on my computer. My O/S
is Windows 2000 with the latest updates, and I am using Power DVD. I
have tried an LG drive and also a Sony, and have the same problem
with both. The DVD starts, but only gets as far as the FBI warning.
This does not happen with older movies on DVD. Would this be a
hardware or software issue, and is there something guaranteed to fix
this?

Tim B

20 Feb 2005 5:21 AM

theyak

In article <mPSRd.438119$8l.305963@pd7tw1no>, goaway@nospamthanks.ca
says...

> I have trouble playing some newer movies on DVD on my computer. My O/S
> is Windows 2000 with the latest updates, and I am using Power DVD. I
> have tried an LG drive and also a Sony, and have the same problem
> with both. The DVD starts, but only gets as far as the FBI warning.
> This does not happen with older movies on DVD. Would this be a
> hardware or software issue, and is there something guaranteed to fix
> this?
>
> Tim B
>
>
>

Bad disc, I imagine.

20 Feb 2005 7:29 PM

nooobody

theyak wrote:

> Bad disc, I imagine.

I wish that were the case, but I have tried different copies of the
same movie (from a video rental place) with the same result. The 2
movies I have had problems with so far are "Kill Bill 2" and "I
Robot". Older movies have not been a problem. "Day After Tomorrow" was
not a problem.

20 Feb 2005 8:25 PM

Larc

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:29:27 GMT, "nooobody" <goaway@nospamthanks.ca>
wrote:

| theyak wrote:
| > Bad disc, I imagine.
|
| I wish that were the case, but I have tried different copies of the
| same movie (from a video rental place) with the same result. The 2
| movies I have had problems with so far are "Kill Bill 2" and "I
| Robot". Older movies have not been a problem. "Day After Tomorrow" was
| not a problem.

I very recently had a problem with a DVD that was OK in every way
except location of printing on it caused the disc to be sufficiently
unbalanced that it wouldn't play past an early point either on my
newest stand-alone DVD player or in one of my computer DVD drives. It
would play on an older DVD player though.

If there's additional noise and/or vibration when you try to play the
problem DVDs, that may be the cause of them not playing on your unit
too.

Larc

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21 Feb 2005 1:49 AM

MCheu

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:29:27 GMT, "nooobody" <goaway@nospamthanks.ca>
wrote:

>theyak wrote:
>> Bad disc, I imagine.
>
>I wish that were the case, but I have tried different copies of the
>same movie (from a video rental place) with the same result. The 2
>movies I have had problems with so far are "Kill Bill 2" and "I
>Robot". Older movies have not been a problem. "Day After Tomorrow" was
>not a problem.
>

Have you installed a region free hack? Either a software emulation or
firmware region free mod? Occasionally (very rarely), I find
powerDVD's automatic region detection can get confused with some discs
and it would stall the movie at the FBI warning or show a region
mismatch warning. No clue what the trigger is, as it seems fairly
random, but if this is the same problem, forcing the region code in
the player will fix it -- at least until the next problem disc crops
up. You can do it with DVD Genie (freeware, you can find a URL via
google).
---------------------------------------------

MCheu

22 Feb 2005 3:58 PM

nooobody

MCheu wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:29:27 GMT, "nooobody"

<goaway@nospamthanks.ca>
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> wrote:
>
>> theyak wrote:
>>> Bad disc, I imagine.
>>
>> I wish that were the case, but I have tried different copies of the
>> same movie (from a video rental place) with the same result. The 2
>> movies I have had problems with so far are "Kill Bill 2" and "I
>> Robot". Older movies have not been a problem. "Day After Tomorrow"
>> was not a problem.
>>
>
> Have you installed a region free hack? Either a software emulation
or
> firmware region free mod? Occasionally (very rarely), I find
> powerDVD's automatic region detection can get confused with some
discs
> and it would stall the movie at the FBI warning or show a region
> mismatch warning. No clue what the trigger is, as it seems fairly
> random, but if this is the same problem, forcing the region code in
> the player will fix it -- at least until the next problem disc crops
> up. You can do it with DVD Genie (freeware, you can find a URL via
> google).
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> MCheu

Thanks, I will try that.

24 Feb 2005 1:06 AM

MCheu

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"nooobody" <goaway@nospamthanks.ca> wrote in message news:<_EISd.471688$8l.451924@pd7tw1no>...
> MCheu wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:29:27 GMT, "nooobody"
> <goaway@nospamthanks.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> theyak wrote:
> >>> Bad disc, I imagine.
> >>
> >> I wish that were the case, but I have tried different copies of the
> >> same movie (from a video rental place) with the same result. The 2
> >> movies I have had problems with so far are "Kill Bill 2" and "I
> >> Robot". Older movies have not been a problem. "Day After Tomorrow"
> >> was not a problem.
> >>
> >
> > Have you installed a region free hack? Either a software emulation
> or
> > firmware region free mod? Occasionally (very rarely), I find
> > powerDVD's automatic region detection can get confused with some
> discs
> > and it would stall the movie at the FBI warning or show a region
> > mismatch warning. No clue what the trigger is, as it seems fairly
> > random, but if this is the same problem, forcing the region code in
> > the player will fix it -- at least until the next problem disc crops
> > up. You can do it with DVD Genie (freeware, you can find a URL via
> > google).
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > MCheu
>
>
> Thanks, I will try that.

Wait. I just reread what I wrote and I think I could have worded it
better. As it is, it's way too easy to get the wrong idea.

I didn't mean to suggest that going to a region free firmware was a
solution. Rather that it might be a potential cause of the problem if
you're already using a region free firmware or software. The player
would get confused on occasion with some discs, requiring that the
region code be manually set in the player. That's what I was
suggesting.

24 Feb 2005 12:27 PM

John McGaw

nooobody wrote:

> I have trouble playing some newer movies on DVD on my computer. My O/S
> is Windows 2000 with the latest updates, and I am using Power DVD. I
> have tried an LG drive and also a Sony, and have the same problem
> with both. The DVD starts, but only gets as far as the FBI warning.
> This does not happen with older movies on DVD. Would this be a
> hardware or software issue, and is there something guaranteed to fix
> this?
>
> Tim B
>
>

Some newly released DVDs contain intentional mastering errors designed
to defeat copying software like DVD Decrypter and DVD Squeeze. It seems
that most "real" DVD players simply ignore the errors while computers
get bogged down by them. It might prove impossible in the future to play
(or copy) DVDs on anything other than approved players.

If you want to find out if the disc in question has such errors you can
download the free DVD Decrypter. A look at the log it creates will tell
you what the status of the disc is.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com