ER Season 1 DVD problems

Michael Martin · 08-27-2003, 09:30 PM

Bought the Region1 DVD release of season 1 yesterday and tried watching the Pilot episode tonight. "Tried" being the operative word. Once it reached chapter 10, major problems - pixelation, spontaneously going to other places in the episode, etc.

Also had problems when I tried, through the menus, to get to chapters in other episodes on the same disc.

Has anyone else had problems watching this DVD release?

I'm using a Sony DVP S360.

PeterKelly · 08-27-2003, 10:54 PM

I watched The Pilot tonight, and had no problems. I am using a Toshiba player.

Look at the disc for wavey lines in the gold, it could be a bad pressing.

Jonny P · 08-27-2003, 10:55 PM

No problems on the Sony NS315 I have been watching it on...

This is a DVD-18 release.

I remember my old Philips Magnavox DVD 400AT couldn't play any DVD-18s...

Jeff Kleist · 08-27-2003, 11:05 PM

probably a bad disc. DVD-18 has about quadruple the defect rate of DVD-9

Dane Marvin · 08-28-2003, 12:10 AM

I had just a split second of white splotches all over the picture during episode 2: "Going Home". I re-watched it to make sure it was there and it was. It's within the first 5 or 10 minutes of the episode, but that's the only defect I've seen in the first 6 episodes so far. Anyone else see this or more like these?

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David Von Pein · 08-28-2003, 01:36 AM

Where did you guys buy your ER sets? Anyplace have it for under $40.00?

LukeB · 08-28-2003, 01:53 AM

FYE has it for $34.99. Circuit City has it for $39.99. Wal-Mart for $37.99.

Michael Martin · 08-28-2003, 04:39 AM

Quote:

probably a bad disc. DVD-18 has about quadruple the defect rate of DVD-9

Thanks Jeff. I'll take my set back this weekend and exchange it. Between this and the problem with Two Towers, I was afraid I'd end up having to buy a new player.

Jonny P · 08-28-2003, 09:35 AM

Quote:

I had just a split second of white splotches all over the picture during episode 2: "Going Home". I re-watched it to make sure it was there and it was. It's within the first 5 or 10 minutes of the episode, but that's the only defect I've seen in the first 6 episodes so far. Anyone else see this or more like these?

Iain Jackson · 08-28-2003, 10:58 AM

Yeah, there was a patch of white dots during episode 2, it appears just to be a particularly bad case of damaged negatives - the widescreen masters were obviously derived from the original 9-year-old source materials rather than the videotape copies...