John Jones(Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 29th June 2000, 11:19
I am posting this message to see if anyone else has had the same problem with this movie. I own a samsung DVD709 which has been region hacked using an Aiwa remote. When I played deep blue sea, at approx 53 minutes into the film, it froze for about a second. The rest of the film continued (but with subtitles). I took it back to get a replacement DVD but this one did the same. Is this a fault with my player or is this another victim of the matrix syndrome?.
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
RJS(undefined) posted this on Thursday, 29th June 2000, 12:28
Are you sure this isn`t the layer change? If it carried on fine afterwards it sounds very likely.
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
John Jones(Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 29th June 2000, 12:46
If it is a layer change, then that`s fine. But that doesn`t explain why the subtitles suddenly appear when I have watched the previous 52 minutes without them.
Regards, John
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
Smiler(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 29th June 2000, 20:01
If u buy a cheap player you`re bound to have problems with some discs.
Thats the disadvantage of cheaper players.
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
Dave T(Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 29th June 2000, 22:37
Yep, same problem, when LL Cool J is trapped in the oven. I find the Samsung a bit "twitchy" with discs containing a lot of extras. I suppose I`ll just have to stump up for something posher!
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
RJS(undefined) posted this on Friday, 30th June 2000, 11:38
Don`t get me started on the problems with my *expensive* player Smiler. ;-)
A quick trip over to DVD Times` bug reports section reveals a truck load of problems with Sony`s for a start. :p
Subtitles dissappearing sounds like a bug in the firmware. If your lucky it will be localised to playback of this disc only.
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
Smiler(Competent) posted this on Saturday, 1st July 2000, 09:47
I never see anyone complaining about Pioneers or Sony players on here, either cos they work fine, or because most ppl buy the wharfedale, samsung etc :)
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea and cheap players
John Jones(Harmless) posted this on Sunday, 2nd July 2000, 00:38
A cheap player it may be, but not when I bought it. Besides, it still rates very highly in what DVD. Nevertheless, a DVD player is a DVD player and such should have no problems playing any discs and manufacturers should test thier discs on all the popular players (Samsung being one of them) :)
JJ
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
RJS(undefined) posted this on Sunday, 2nd July 2000, 20:11
ALL Pioneer X1X players suffered from lyp synch problems, mines a 505 so It didnt. But my 505 hangs on the menu of Evil Dead 2 and also breaks up and freezes completely near the end of The Exorcist: 25th Anniversary Edition. There we go, a complaint about one of those players for you. ;-)
RE: Problem with Deep Blue Sea
Rob Kiff(Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 4th July 2000, 02:26
Smiller you sad child not everybody can afford the expensive players,I had a 505 pioneer and it had terrible lip synch problems,my 717 however has had no problems at all so far with region 1 & 2 discs. Keep the cheap and cheerful players coming, the more players sold the more discs released, the more discs released the cheaper they get.
This item was edited on Tuesday, 4th July 2000, 02:28
