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Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: on December 11, 2000, 04:54:37 AM
There are several DVD-movies that European PS2 will not play. Console tries to read it approx. 1 min and then comes out with the error: Disk read error. Movies are also European (Region 2). The only movie that I have witnessed to fail is : What becomes of a Broken Hearted (Once were warriors 2) but my frien told that he has already faced two other movies which are erring. I think that the otherone was Gladiator??? BTW, both were Finnish versions. They all worked fine vith REAL DVD-player and computer also.

Have you faced similar problems and who\'s to blame??????
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: on December 11, 2000, 04:58:04 AM
I have onlt had trouble with gladiators nothing big though just froze for one second and continued playing.Not a problem happens with my rca dvd player once in a while also.
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Ablett on December 11, 2000, 05:01:36 AM
These are the movies that I have played (region 4) .

The Matrix
Gladiator
U571
Stigmata
The Mummy
Three Kings
The Green Mile

And all of them worked fine  .No worries at all .
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Hawke on December 11, 2000, 08:48:26 AM
Even more finns? We\'re taking over :D

I rented a DVD movie again, and no probs with it. I\'ve had troubles with only 2 DVD\'s so far, with the aforementioned Gladiator (minor erring, 1 freeze) and with... err... it was some stupid movie my mom rented for herself and a friend. Though in this second movie\'s case I\'d think the deep scalpel induced scratches on the disc might\'ve affected it. People who rent films should take better care of them :evil:
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Samwise on December 11, 2000, 09:25:18 AM
I\'ve tried six different movies so far (region 2). All of them played flawlessly!
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Sublimesjg on December 11, 2000, 09:46:45 AM
i own over 20 DVDS region 1 and all work just fine

so i guess i am lucky or something
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: on December 11, 2000, 03:51:54 PM
I dunno why you guys have problems

I connect my PS2 through a VCR and my DVDs run skip and error free.  Perfect
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: broonsbain on December 11, 2000, 03:59:42 PM
am i the only one whos havent had 1 prob with my ps2???
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: bd on December 11, 2000, 08:59:57 PM
Nope at the moment as Im playing through my DVDs Im taking note of which ones arent playing properly/have serious problems here it is:

start - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
DVD Playback tests :
UK [PAL] territory PS2, Region 2 discs, DVD drivers v1.20E

- Matrix (131mins, no issues / no issues*)
- Alien Resurrection (104mins, no issues)
- Armageddon (144mins, no issues*)
- Enemy of the State (127mins, audio sync issues*)
- Lost in Space (130mins, no issues*)
- Leon (106mins, no issues*)
- Ronin (121mins, disc unreadable after chpt21 +30secs)

Titles marked with a \'*\' were played from start to finish without returning to the menu or pausing the movie.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - end

The list is quite short at the moment, but I should be covering everything I get, I wonder if Sony has some form of public input to help resolve DVD issues the public discover. It would be great if the playback was issue free, as it stands the image quality is pretty good and the audio syncing seems to be a rare occurance (although judging from only 6 titles is a little fast) but to sit down and watch a film only to have it to fail 3/4 through the film is not really acceptable, hopefully Sony will fix such issues in coming versions of their DVD drivers, and quickly too.

-bd
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: BigDaddy on December 12, 2000, 06:47:10 AM
I have no problems on my Elite changer. :) I use my PS2 for games.
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Samwise on December 12, 2000, 07:41:47 AM
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Originally posted by broonsbain
am i the only one whos havent had 1 prob with my ps2???

Nope, my PlayStation 2 works flawlessly too. I have tried six different DVD\'s and some 5 or 6 games + PSX games. They all played perfectly without any probs at all.
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: on December 12, 2000, 08:47:50 AM
PAL UK PS2/DVD

Only weird thing was watching \'Births Deaths and Marriages\' (great film, BTW).  The audio was well out of sync with the video on a lot of it.

I didn\'t have a DVD player to compare with, unfortunately :(
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Darth Joyda on December 12, 2000, 10:45:01 AM
Welcome to the forums Hhormala and Iron Lung!

Glad to see another Finn; where in finland do u live?

I live in Kokkola, Karleby ;)

I hope u post here a lot... for you iron lung I hope too :)

Well, I haven\'t had any probs with my PS2-DVD-player so far. I\'ve watched these movies:

The Excorsist
Fifth Element
The Holy Man
The Rock
Wild Wild West
Blade Runner Directors Cut
Blade
The Mummy
Storm of the Century



Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on December 12, 2000, 10:51:41 AM
I´ve Matrix and Gladiator in Spain (region 2) and these movies are fine, all fine, the PS2-DVD rocks!! I´ve too Los Sin Nombre but you don´t know what is this filme, it was got to me when i bought my system.
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: videoholic on December 12, 2000, 11:14:45 AM
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Originally posted by grimreaper
I have onlt had trouble with gladiators nothing big though just froze for one second and continued playing.Not a problem happens with my rca dvd player once in a while also.



95% of movies will give a split second freeze.  It\'s called a layer change.  It\'s not "trouble".  It\'s "normal".
Title: Turku is where I live
Post by: on December 13, 2000, 01:39:38 AM
and BTW, the problems with my frieds films was not with the Gladiator as I remembered it was Lionking2 and no other faults. And the errors I\'m speaking is not about picture or audio quality the point is that with these movies there is no picture nor audio because PS2 will not read them! Have you checked the Keltainenpörssi (a finnish mag/net site where poeple can sell their things) there are many PS2 available! It seem that not all have been completely happy with the system. (Eventhough they ask more than they paid but still....)
Title: Do you have DVD Problems???
Post by: Snow Fox on December 13, 2000, 03:22:26 AM
Up until last night Ive had no problems with my DVD
and played:

Gladiator
MI:2
X-files
TWINE
Blair Witch
Three Kings

But last night I was playing Tommorow Never Dies, when
slow down (if thats what u call it) appeard, it was like the picture kept jolting and skipping. I only just bourght the DVD, but cleaned it anyway, that helped abit but the problem didnt go anway, so I tried it again this morning and
it worked fine. Hopefully that won\'t happen to often.