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RE: Problems with LOTR

Thanks Jim, used your trick and finally heard the commentaries without captions. Still good though. Talked to a helpful bloke at my local Richer Sounds who`d heard of a few problems mainly with older machines like mine. Reckoned that the current DVD encoding specs had changed ever so slightly which caused these problems and that there was no way round it.

RE: LOTR: TT: EE

The problems only appear to be with certain players. Grundig, Sanyo, Limit, Pioneer and Wharfedale so far, and only on certain models, so it`s a bit of a lottery.

RE: Problems with LOTR

It might not help you, but I feel a little better knowing other people are having problems. Found some more last night - the same problem occurs in documentaries 6 and 7 on disk 4. OK, call me sad for going through all the disks already. Any more anyone?
I spoke to customer services at HMV head office yesterday and they are contacting the UK distributors (Entertainment in Video) to see if they can shed any light on this. I`ll let you know when they get back to me.
Ady

RE: Morons programming the layer skip

I`m a bit new to this - is that why there is part of sentence missing in the Two Towers (spoken by Faramir I think)?

Ady

RE: LOTR The Two Towers: Extended Edition Problems????

Sounds familiar to many of the problem the 2-disk set had. Do your commentaries work OK? See my post today in another thread about TT problems.

A

RE: Problems with LOTR

Brentworth - have you had any joy? I have precisely the same problem. See a copy of an email I sent to the manufacturer:

Our problems concern the commentaries, or rather lack of them. As a control we had our main DVD player play the commentaries from Fellowship Ext with no problem. When we try to play the Director commentary the captions (saying who is speaking) come up, but the letters are distorted, and there is no commentary, just the normal sound. Try to play any of the other commentaries and you get the same, except you always get the distorted Director commentary captions, no matter which commentary is selected. The same is true of all the commentaries on disk 2 (normal sound, no commentary, distorted Director captions), excpet for when the Director commentary is selected, in which case there is no sound at all. All this took place on a Limit DVD multi region player which has never had any problems previously.

To check, I put disk 1 into my Apple Mac G4 dual 800 which has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103 in it. I can get the audio to work on each commentary, but no captions.

I`ve been through every sound setting, but as the setup I have works fine with every other dvd I suspect it might be a coding error. We are now on our fourth copy and are really getting desperate!