Skipping on My Alien Quadrilogy...
12-09-03, 09:17 PM
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Originally posted by gutwrencher
I also have noticed a problem of the Alien DC.
in chap 24...at about 1:09:48...during the conversation following Brett's death. Rip says she will go in the vent. it's during the response from Dallas where the defect occurs. just as he starts to scratch his right shoulder area....his next few words are dropped as the picture gives a brief stutter and freeze. it then moves on with no probem. if it's the layer change...it's very different from other changes. in fact...it did it only maybe 2 out of 3 times. a layer change would always do the same thing...I think.
I also tried it on a total of 4 players and it did it off and on. all laser's were cleaned prior. I think a replacement disc would be in order. I really dont want to have to exchange the whole box.
players tested:
Malata 520
Panny S35
Cyberhome 300
Denon 1200
I also have noticed a problem of the Alien DC.
in chap 24...at about 1:09:48...during the conversation following Brett's death. Rip says she will go in the vent. it's during the response from Dallas where the defect occurs. just as he starts to scratch his right shoulder area....his next few words are dropped as the picture gives a brief stutter and freeze. it then moves on with no probem. if it's the layer change...it's very different from other changes. in fact...it did it only maybe 2 out of 3 times. a layer change would always do the same thing...I think.
I also tried it on a total of 4 players and it did it off and on. all laser's were cleaned prior. I think a replacement disc would be in order. I really dont want to have to exchange the whole box.
players tested:
Malata 520
Panny S35
Cyberhome 300
Denon 1200
On new freebie JVC X-3SL no freezes??
Needless to say the JVC is not my primary player. This stinks.
12-11-03, 08:40 PM
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Originally posted by cseyer
On my Sony DVP-NS900V freezes at same spot 1:09:49
On new freebie JVC X-3SL no freezes??
Needless to say the JVC is not my primary player. This stinks.
On my Sony DVP-NS900V freezes at same spot 1:09:49
On new freebie JVC X-3SL no freezes??
Needless to say the JVC is not my primary player. This stinks.
12-11-03, 09:14 PM
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Originally posted by chess
ditto on my panasonic dvd-r...seemed like a branching thing as i'm pretty sure that's a new scene.
ditto on my panasonic dvd-r...seemed like a branching thing as i'm pretty sure that's a new scene.
it's a similar problem with my copy of Versus. the panny has a hell of a time getting past the layer change. it freezes at the 58min mark every time...and refuses to advance without skipping to the next chapter and rewinding. it's a little better on the other players....but it's a rough change on all.
Last edited by gutwrencher; 12-11-03 at 09:19 PM.
12-20-03, 05:29 PM
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Finally got a chance to start this set today and I'm running into problems as well. Two MAJOR skips in Ch18 (1:08:47 & 1:10:15). There was some residue (maybe the glue) on the bottom of the DVD, I was able to clean the majority of it off but it still skips about 1/2 the time... sometimes it's a minor "layer- change" delay other times it actually skips back a couple of minutes BTW it's a Sony 5-DVD player that has never had problems w/ any DVD... seems to play fine (atleast those two spots) in a 1st generation Dell laptop DVD though... still annoying as hellWell the rest of them seem to be ok... Alien4 is still
though why couldn't the problem be w/ that one 
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12-21-03, 01:19 AM
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My Alien Quad from amazon is less than mint. Disc 1 (Alien) has deep eccentric scratches that the movie skips and jumps back. The rest of the 8 discs have finger prints on them. It looks as if they were employing 3 year old who just had a meal to assembly the set.
Needless to say I already requested a replacement set.
Needless to say I already requested a replacement set.
12-22-03, 12:52 AM
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My Aliens disc got stuck in different places about 10 minutes from the end, causing my player (a Pioneer 655A aka 45A) to grind to a halt. A replacement is on the way from Amazon...
12-22-03, 08:01 AM
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Originally posted by eddiekirk
With DDD, I got lucky. Only DVD that had a small, but deep scratch was Disc 8 Res extras. I'm afraid to exchange as I would probably get back one more damaged.
With DDD, I got lucky. Only DVD that had a small, but deep scratch was Disc 8 Res extras. I'm afraid to exchange as I would probably get back one more damaged.
12-22-03, 09:46 AM
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Onlt problem I've had so far is with 20 seconds of pixellation on the Aliens DVD at chapter 23.
12-22-03, 12:38 PM
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Originally posted by lisadoris
I had the same problem with disc 8 though I will exchange it since the disc wouldn't play at all.
I had the same problem with disc 8 though I will exchange it since the disc wouldn't play at all.
btw...Anyone have the Alien 3/Sony player subtitle problem?
12-22-03, 01:37 PM
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Anyone have the Alien 3/Sony player subtitle problem?
