Blakes7 Discussion

terrible zodin · Poser Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 3163

I Bought The DVD's On Wednesday, And From Reading This Topic, It Made Me A Little Paranoid, But I Was Relieved To Find That Their Are No Layer Change Problems When I Play The Discs On My iBook, And Their Is Only The Slightest Hiccough When I Play Them On My Main DVD Player

Picard · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject:

Lil Shepherd · Guest

Just a warning here, folks. I sent my first set of discs back to Amazon because they paused on the layer changes. Amazon nicely refunded my money.

Recently, I reordered, and received the discs last week. They did, indeed, have the yellow sticker on the back, and the first disc played perfectly. The second, however, was far worse than the orginal editions, making 'The Web' almost unwatchable.

As I had had an invitation from the BBC DVD support to send my original discs to them to upgrade, I promptly sent this lot - together with a fairly stroppy letter - and am now waiting to see what happens next.

Kaz · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 1806 Location: Omicron Theta

I think I must be about the only person who hasn't had a problem with the DVD's. I got mine from 10th planet.
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Picard · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

Diane G · Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 53 Location: Hertfordshire

THE_LIBERATOR · Goatboy Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 9063

Lil Shepherd · Guest

[quote="Diane G"][quote="Lil Shepherd"]Just a warning here, folks. I sent my first set of discs back to Amazon because they paused on the layer changes. Amazon nicely refunded my money.

Recently, I reordered, and received the discs last week. They did, indeed, have the yellow sticker on the back, and the first disc played perfectly. The second, however, was far worse than the orginal editions, making 'The Web' almost unwatchable.

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Lil hi,
would you mind letting me know what make and model your DVD player is as obviously the new discs shouldn't have this problem. As far as I know, all Horizon's customers who had problems with the original set have found the re-issue completely cured the problem so it would be helpful to know what machines may [i]still[/i] be having problems, and [i]exactly [/i]what happened when you played 'The Web'..
Thanks
- Diane[/quote]

Hi there, Diane - was happy but startled to find you still sorting B7 out after all these years...

It's a Pioneer 656, which was pretty high-end when I got it, less then two years ago. All the Pioneers have problems, of course.

Basically, the disc came to a head-shot of Blake and then froze. When I tried to jog it, it threw me back to the top menu, and continued to do so, despite judicious use of the scene selection and reverse. There's at least one scene that just won't play. However, that does not appear to be the layer change, because there was a long pause while the machine thought about it a bit later in the episode.

Lil

robbins1940 · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1211

Have you tried cleaning the disc with a lint free cloth? Remember to wipe from the hub to to the outer edge not in a circular manner.

David

Lil Shepherd · Guest

[quote="robbins1940"]Have you tried cleaning the disc with a lint free cloth? Remember to wipe from the hub to to the outer edge not in a circular manner.

David[/quote]

I am not going to dignify that one with a reply, considering the rest of this thread.

Picard · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: