I have a DVD (BMX Bandits - don't laugh; I loved it as a kid and still like the hokeyness of it today) which plays at the correct speed and audio is normal but the video looks like every other frame is missing. Still images are ok, but anything with motion causes an effect close to a flicker (not an actual flicker but the image will advance then do it again a fraction of a second later) which gave me a splitting headache this morning.
I can tell the disc was cheaply engineered, especially during the closing credits where there is a place where a visible distortion crawls up the screen like VHS tapes used to do if they had a bad wrinkle in them. This makes me think the disc was ripped directly from VHS. It is an R1 release which is supposed to be widescreen, but I'll be damned if I can figure out anything about the AR except that the image is not anamorphically enhanced.
Has anyone ever ran across a video anamoly like the one I described and If so, what would cause it?
I can tell the disc was cheaply engineered, especially during the closing credits where there is a place where a visible distortion crawls up the screen like VHS tapes used to do if they had a bad wrinkle in them. This makes me think the disc was ripped directly from VHS. It is an R1 release which is supposed to be widescreen, but I'll be damned if I can figure out anything about the AR except that the image is not anamorphically enhanced.
Has anyone ever ran across a video anamoly like the one I described and If so, what would cause it?
