...I purchased a Laurel and Hardy DVD at el waldo-marto...along with some others...a buck a pop...the disc plays fine until I get to "chapter nine", which is the last scene...then up to a point all he!! breaks loose...the action stops...or it goes sorta' mosaic...or it looks as though someone went nuts with a "photoshop" program.
Now, first guess is the disc...dirty??? Clean the sucker...still problems...but...and here's the strange part...not necessarily the same problem at the same point in time...maybe what was mosaic is now a still shot...what was a still shot maybe now looks "embossed"...what was watchable in previous attempts now isn't and vice-versa...that sort of thing.
I've tried to access the chapter from the disc's menu and via the players direct input via onscreen displays..I've tried FF, step-by-step and what seems to be all permutations thereof...so now I'm thinkin' player...and it's a cheep JVC unit and we got it as a freebie from a bank for doin' business with them and...then it hits me, I have Think Pad, it has player, let's give it a shoot...HOWEVER...SOS, still troubles, same kind, different kind, but the rest of the disc is okee-dokee!
So anywho, the disc is a throwawy, no biggee, but I'm perplexed...I'm familiar with the technology involved (or so I think) but I can't quite come to grips with why the problems appear, mutate, disapear and re-appear and on two different playback machines...I even went so far as to whip out the old green marker...NG BTW...
And I know there's a possibility that it's the player is a bit "off" and the disc is a bit "off" and that it's all happenstance...but I'm still curious...
jimHJJ(...still have to bring the disc to work and see what happens on my PC...)