Do you have DVD Problems???

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??????

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.

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 .

Even more finns? We\'re taking over

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:

I\'ve tried six different movies so far (region 2). All of them played flawlessly!

i own over 20 DVDS region 1 and all work just fine

so i guess i am lucky or something

I dunno why you guys have problems

I connect my PS2 through a VCR and my DVDs run skip and error free.  Perfect

am i the only one whos havent had 1 prob with my ps2???

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:

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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.
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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

I have no problems on my Elite changer. I use my PS2 for games.

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.

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

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

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.

[videoholic]

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".