Anyone have this problem with their DVD player?

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:11 am

Well, I recently bought a copy of the original Star Wars Trilogy. I played part of the first one. Then played the second. Watched it all the way through as I ate my supper since my internet connect was down for the night. So, after it was over, I popped in Return Of The Jedi just to make sure everything worked. Then my DVD player did something strange. The DVD started to act as it normally does. Then in the text on the DVD player that displays the title, it says "Invalid Title." It then prompty shuts off and asks me to insert a DVD.

I checked the disk, it looks cleaner than the others. ALmost spotless. Popped it in my parents DVD player and it played without a hitch. However, it won't play in mine. I tried cleaning the DVD player then played some other movies and they worked fine. Wiped any fingerprint smudges on the disk and popped it back in. Still the same thing. Anyway, has anyone had a problem like this with their DVD player and can it be solved? Or is it a bad disk? I noticed that my parents DVD player doesn't display text on the LCD display like mine does. Would this cause it? I can't imagine why it would stop playing the disk just because it can't read the text? I could care less about it. Hmmm.... maybe I should try reading it the dictionary.

Anyway, anyone have this problem with thier DVD player?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:13 am

What brand of DVD player? If it's one of those 50$ ones, return it and buy a better brand.

Other than that, maybe your DVD region needs to be reset, not to sure.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:24 am

Nope it's no $50 DVD player. It was an RCA that my folks gave me last year. It's actually nicer than the one they have.

suicide eddie · Post by **suicide eddie** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:30 am

stand alone player or pc? maybe a badly written region code or a slighty different media that the firmware of your player isnt happy with. try replacing the disk if you can before updating the firmware if needed.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:35 am

It's a standalone. I don't like having everything tied into my PC.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:42 am

Well to me RCA isn't as good as they used to be. maybe the player is slowly dying? If the DVD plays fine on another player, then it has to be your DVD player that is the problem.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:59 am

I don't imagine why? The DVD player is only about a year old and everypthing else runs fine on it.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:02 pm

My DVD player = My PlayStation 2

It seems to only have problems playing games though.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:17 pm

Thats funny, my dvd player is my PS2 as well and it plays games just fine.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:15 pm

i have a Samsung DVD Player and all 5 Star Wars play just fine on mine.

if i want to watch something from another region i turn on my PS2 and throw in my Game Shark V2.3 with its "Any Region DVD Hack" and watch some good anime from Japan

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:51 pm

CDN_Merlin wrote:Well to me RCA isn't as good as they used to be. maybe the player is slowly dying? If the DVD plays fine on another player, then it has to be your DVD player that is the problem.

I agree, RCA has turned into utter ★■◆● these days. Cold solder joints, broken PCB boards, HV power supplies that crap out within a couple months, etc. I guess thats where some DEER employees went.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:37 am

Hmmm, well, I'm pretty happy with my RCA DVD player. Haven't had any problems before. I went and got the DVD exchanged today and the new copy works just fine.

But I still wonder what could have caused this error?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:02 pm

My DVD player spits out some DVDs - doesn't even recognise them as DVDs!! And then there are the DVDs that just hard crash the PC after 10-20 seconds of playing. Then there's DVDs that just play like normal.

*sigh*

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:10 pm

When I bought my Samsung HDTV I also bought a Samsung combo DVD-VCR and it has played everything I have including burned VCD's.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:23 pm

mob-messenger wrote:But I still wonder what could have caused this error?

Probably a new copy protection scheme that your player doesn't like. Disney DVDs were like that for a while when they first came out. I couldn't even watch the DVD version of Dinosaur because the player kept locking up during the menu intro.

As far as players go, I've never had any problems with Apex. If you're looking for a player that can play mpeg videos and pictures, then Polaroid has one....but be warned that its support is rather lacking in some areas. Any pictures larger than say...720x480 it'll crop them. As for mpegs, sometimes it'll read some videos as a "chapter" for a video earlier on the disk. Your mileage will vary, but it plays a hell of alot more formats than my old Daewoo (only plays DVDs, CDs, and mp3s. Claims to play VCDs as well, but it won't). Don't let a cheap pricetag fool you. There are quite a few players out there that play alot of formats that are quite inexpensive. You can easily get a damn good player for under $50.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:14 am

If it makes you feel any better -- I popped in a VCD of Hero into my computer which I borrowed from the Chinese lady I work for, and moments later my Debian Linux locked up. Then it wouldn't boot any more. I then booted into Suse Linux (vcd still in drive) and moments later it locked up too!

I took out the vcd and then booted into Fedora Core 2 (Yes, all three of those linuxes were installed) and didn't have any more problems. Suse and Debian were both so corrupted that I couldn't boot them or even mount them in Fedora. So I spent most of today reinstalling Linux

BTW, I can't think of any way that vcd could have caused this, it probably didn't. But... then what did?!? Strange, strange, strange. I just hope it doesn't happen again.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:53 pm

MD-2389 wrote:, HV power supplies that crap out within a couple months, etc.

what does a DVD player have in it thats High Voltage?

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:13 pm

AceCombat wrote:
MD-2389 wrote:, HV power supplies that crap out within a couple months, etc.

what does a DVD player have in it thats High Voltage?

Actually, that happened in a TV. If you bothered to actually read my post, you'd notice that I never limited my list to DVD players.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:14 pm

MD-2389 wrote:Actually, that happened in a TV. If you bothered to actually read my post, you'd notice that I never limited my list to DVD players.

MD-2389 wrote:I agree, RCA has turned into utter **** these days. Cold solder joints, broken PCB boards, HV power supplies that crap out within a couple months, etc. I guess thats where some DEER employees went.

i dont see a single thing in that post that says TV's