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BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play

09 Jul 03 - 05:06 PM (#980116)
Subject: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: Kim C

A plain ol' DVD movie I have played on my DVD player several times, suddenly won't play on the DVD player, but will play on the computer. The DVD player doesn't seem to have this problem with any other DVDs. Yes, we have cleaned it. It will show the FBI warning, then an error message pops up that says something like, "playback function may not be available."

Any ideas?

Thanks ---

KFC


09 Jul 03 - 05:25 PM (#980125)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: McGrath of Harlow

DVDs work on regions, for example with Europe being a different region from the USA. But DVD players can be set so as to play DVDs from different regions.

So could it be that the DVD in question comes from a different world region from the others , and the player has switched itself back from multi-region to a particular region? In which casee it should be easy enough to adjust it back.


09 Jul 03 - 05:33 PM (#980126)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: Clinton Hammond

Or the CVC might have developed a big old scratch...

You've cleaned what? The DVD or the player?? Cause you should clean both eh...


09 Jul 03 - 05:43 PM (#980131)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: Amergin

yeah im with clitnon....try cleaning the dvd itself...


09 Jul 03 - 09:17 PM (#980230)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: GUEST

They are cheap - buy a new one.


10 Jul 03 - 07:50 AM (#980458)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: Kim C

I cleaned the disc. It is a DVD from my own particular region. We've never messed with the region settings. But yeah, I reckon I will probably just buy another one... even though I thought DVD technology was supposed to bypass this kind of stuff...


10 Jul 03 - 10:06 AM (#980532)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: McGrath of Harlow

Might be worth cleaning the player as well - I've had this kind of problem with CDs, a player will play one but not another, and cleaning the player has done the trick.


10 Jul 03 - 11:46 AM (#980623)
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly my DVD won't play
From: Kim C

I tried that this morning. No go. It will play on the computer, though, so all is not lost. It just seems strange that the one disc would give the machine such trouble. Oh well!