DVD problem

[DREDIOCK]

Weird situation.
This is the DVD players that are hooked to my TV. not the computer
Watched a movie a few weeks ago with the family.

Started doing mini freezes.
Got so disgusted I went out and bought another DVD player (didnt like the other one anyway)

Got it home. hooked it up. Same thing only not quite as bad.
Figured I had a bad DVD
Wife picks up a DVd for my daughter.

Same thing. Stutters and freezes.

WTF?

Whats the likelyhood I bought two bad DVDs of differing titles in a row?

[DREDIOCK]

Ok new twist.
same two DVDs work perfectly when played on computer DVD player

[APDrone]

Had the same thing happen to an 'Alias' DVD.  Started freezing on the DVD player but worked fine on the computers.

We just chalked it up to a defective DVD.  Didn't have any problems with the rest of the box set for that season, nor any of the remaining seasons.

Sorry I don't have a definitive answer for ya.

[Barnes828]

just watched vantage point, a movie that your really have to watch closely, and it started freezing up in the end quite badly

[SD67]

I've noticed a similar thing... it's a PITA.
Why do they play so well through the computer though?
I would expect a good quality DVD player to have performance equal to or better than that of a computer. BOTH our DVD players (upstairs and downstairs) do the same things with mini freezes and really poor fast forward slide show like performance, yet when we play the same DVD's through the computers to the TV's we get excellent performance, no freezes and we can get smooth fast forward up to 32x.
I'm really disappointed in the quality of many home entertainment products.

[SOB]

Burned DVDs or regular?  Do they have labels on 'em?

I've noticed my ~$125 Sony DVD player has freeze/skip problems from time to time, even with new discs.  Never have problems with my cheapie ($70) Philips DVD player that also plays DIVX & XVID encoded AVI files burned to disc, and never had any problems with my old $1,000 top of the line Sony DVD player back in the day, though it was old enough it wouldn't recognize burned DVDs.

[SD67]

Burned DVDs or regular?  Do they have labels on 'em?

Both SOB.

[DYNAMITE]

It's possible that the laser lens needs to be cleaned (even on the new player).... do you have a cleaner disk?

[SD67]

Yep, it makes no difference. We even took them back to the store for exchange and still had the same problems. It's not ALL discs, just what seems to be most of them and it rarely occurs until about halfway into the movie.

[DREDIOCK]

These are brand new store bought commercial disks.

For chuckles I tried one of my Band of Brothers DVDs and it also does the same thing now.

[REP0MAN]

Yep, it makes no difference. We even took them back to the store for exchange and still had the same problems. It's not ALL discs, just what seems to be most of them and it rarely occurs until about halfway into the movie.

You need the cleaner disk that spins counterclockwise; you know, cause you're down under and all.

[SD67]

[SOB]

Does it do the freeze just once in about the middle of some of the movies?  If so, that's just the laser reaching the edge of the disc and turning back to read the second layer.  Every player I've owned has done this, and I've seen it on others at friends' houses... which seems weird to me since you'd think a simple read-ahead buffer would solve that problem, and they've had that on portable CD players for years.

[SD67]

It happens on single layers discs too I'm afraid. Even with dual layer discs I don't see this issue with DVD's played on the computers. All three of them outperform the store bought DVD players.