Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:38:55 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "High Noonn" DVD?? Message-ID: <20081116013854.GA2977@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20081115084600.GA4998@thought.org> <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my > > computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the > > *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98, > > and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a DVD-R on it; I'm > > just wondering my none of my players won't play it. > > Different region? Most players are locked to a certain region, and won't > play disks from other regions. Although it is possible to install > upgraded or modified firmware that removes the region encoding, that > usually needs a windows program. And it can brick your player when done > incorrectly. > > Roland I just realized that last night the DVD jumped right into the Start of the film. No FBI threats of extraordinary rendition to those who would copy, no pre-list of places to jump to. The extra features were at the end, only. So it's probably a bad disc. Also, the few time I tried different players--vlc first, the player locked up and the DVD tray was wegded. Doing a shutdown I was the console spitting out "DMA error" type strings. So ... while *usually* our players are fault tolerant, not in this case. Since it's awhile until 2013, I'm not going to bother asking the library for another copy. thanks, gents, gary PS: I just tried of of the few DVD's i have [thank-you, PBS], "Keltic Woman"; works flawlessly. {mm-BAR}, :-) > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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