Some Twilight Time Discs No Longer Playing (1 Viewer)

[Malcolm R]

I'm another who's used alcohol for years to clean discs. I usually have single use alcohol pads in the house, so I usually just use those.

If you buy or receive a disc that has been written on with markers, it'll also remove that writing.

 

[Johnny Angell]

I'm another who's used alcohol for years to clean discs. I usually have single use alcohol pads in the house, so I usually just use those.

If you buy or receive a disc that has been written on with markers, it'll also remove that writing.

What about those packaged eyeglass wipes?

 

[BobO'Link]

What about those packaged eyeglass wipes?

I've never tried them though I'd think they'd work just fine as most eyeglass lenses are plastic. Those usually cost more than plain alcohol cleaning pads (I use and recommend those at work when a teacher has a disc that won't play - easier/safer for classroom use) so I'd likely only use one if I was out of everything else. I've kept 90% isopropyl alcohol and denatured alcohol on hand for 50+ years to clean the plastic and metal in tape recorder paths and heads (denatured for plastic/metal and 90% for rollers as it doesn't dry them out as bad). I've not tried denatured on discs as the 90% works very well. I have both a "dropper" bottle and spray bottle.

 

[Thomas T]

Well, I've begun but haven't finished the daunting task of scanning my Twilight Time discs from beginning to end. I'm starting with the oldest releases and working my way back. So far, I've scanned these and thankfully all played just fine:

The Kremlin Letter (3/3/11) DVD
Woman Obsessed (6/14/11) DVD
My Cousin Rachel (9/13/11) DVD
Picnic (1/17/12)
Roots Of Heaven (1/17/12)
Pal Joey (2/14/2)
Bite The Bullet (3/13/12)
Desiree (4/10/12)
Wayward Bus (6/12/12)
Cover Girl (7/12/12)
Bye Bye Birdie (8/14/12)
High Time (8/14/12)
Sound And The Fury (9/11/12)
Bonjour Tristesse (11/13/12)
Rains Of Ranchipur (11/13/22)
Beloved Infidel (12/11/12)
Blue Lagoon (12/11/12)
Lost Horizon (1973) (12/11/12)
Nicholas And Alexandra (2/12/13)
Major Dundee (4/9/13)
Only Game In Town (6/11/13)
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (7/9/13)
Sexy Beast (8/13/13)
Alamo Bay (9/10/13)
Oliver! (11/12/13)
Way We Were (11/12/13)
Royal Flash (12/10/13)

 

[Mark_TB]

I recently took the cellophane off of my TT copy of Zardoz and gave it a spin. It stuttered to a stop about 5 minutes in, then eventually skipped a minute ahead. I tried a careful cleaning of the disc with no change. I'm running a scan on it using the VSO Inspector recommended above by David Norman, and it's showing significant file reading failure.

Very disappointed, to say the least. I haven't had the heart to play past that first five minutes.

 

[Drew Salzan]

Well, I've begun but haven't finished the daunting task of scanning my Twilight Time discs from beginning to end. I'm starting with the oldest releases and working my way back. So far, I've scanned these and thankfully all played just fine:

The Kremlin Letter (3/3/11) DVD
Woman Obsessed (6/14/11) DVD
My Cousin Rachel (9/13/11) DVD
Picnic (1/17/12)
Roots Of Heaven (1/17/12)
Pal Joey (2/14/2)
Bite The Bullet (3/13/12)
Desiree (4/10/12)
Wayward Bus (6/12/12)
Cover Girl (7/12/12)
Bye Bye Birdie (8/14/12)
High Time (8/14/12)
Sound And The Fury (9/11/12)
Bonjour Tristesse (11/13/12)
Rains Of Ranchipur (11/13/22)
Beloved Infidel (12/11/12)
Blue Lagoon (12/11/12)
Lost Horizon (1973) (12/11/12)
Nicholas And Alexandra (2/12/13)
Major Dundee (4/9/13)
Only Game In Town (6/11/13)
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (7/9/13)
Sexy Beast (8/13/13)
Alamo Bay (9/10/13)
Oliver! (11/12/13)
Way We Were (11/12/13)
Royal Flash (12/10/13)

That's great news. The ones that failed for me are:
Bye Bye Birdie
The Best of Everything
Picnic
Oliver!
Can you please share with us the player you have? I have a Yamaha BD-S677. All firmware is up to date.

 

[Matt Hough]

I have played The Best of Everything and Oliver! within the last couple of months and both played fine on my equipment (Panasonic Blu-ray players).

 

[Thomas T]

That's great news. The ones that failed for me are:
Bye Bye Birdie
The Best of Everything
Picnic
Oliver!
Can you please share with us the player you have? I have a Yamaha BD-S677. All firmware is up to date.

I have a region free Sony BDP S6700 blu ray player that I've had about 2 years.

 

[Thomas T]

Well, *sigh* I guess it was only a matter of time but I found the first TT title in my collection to go bad. Khartoum (1/21/14) freezes and sputters around the 1:17 mark

 

[cinemel1]

So far no Twilight Time problems. I checked a few of the discs some of you cited as problematic. I have an Oppo 203.

 

[Thomas T]

Well, I've done the second round of Twilight Time discs to see if any have gone bad and only one was bad. The rest of the titles played fine. These were the titles I scanned from beginning to end:

Khartoum (1/21/14) (went BAD. Sputters and freezes around the 1:17 mark)

The rest of these played fine:

Man In The Dark (1/21/14)
Zulu (1/22/14)
Blue Max (2/11/14)
Eddy Duchin Story (2/11/14)
All The King's Men (2/11/14)
Fate Is The Hunter (5/13/14)
Two Rode Together (5/13/14)
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (6/10/14)
Violent Saturday (7/8/14)
Follow That Dream (8/12/14)
Secret Of Santa Vittoria (8/12/14)
Birdman Of Alcatraz (11/11/14)
Flaming Star (11/11/14)
Judgment At Nuremburg (11/11/14)
Bandit Queen (1/20/15)
Bride Wore Black (1/20/15)
First Men In The Moon (3/10/15)
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (3/10/15)
Solomon And Sheba (3/10/15)
U Turn (3/10/15)
Fantasticks (4/4/15)
April Love (4/14/15)
Story Of Adele H (4/14/15)
Hombre (5/12/15)
Man For All Seasons (5/12/15)
Absolute Beginners (6/9/15)
Mississippi Mermaid (6/9/15)
Night Of The Generals (6/9/15)
Young Lions (6/9/15)
Best Of Everything (7/4/15)
Month In The Country (7/14/15)
World Of Henry Orient (7/14/15)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (8/11/15)
House Of Bamboo (8/11/15)
Little House (8/11/15)
Summer Lovers (8/11/15)
Broken Lance (11/10/15)
Scorpio (11/10/15)
Born Free (12/8/15)
The Detective (12/8/15)
Kings Go Forth (12/8/15)
Mysterious Island (12/8/15)

 

[redeye007]

So far none of my 33 twilight time blu rays have stopped working. The one I play a lot is la Bamba. No issues over here maybe it’s the player for some of you. I still have a few twilight time movies that I haven’t seen yet. I’ll have to watch them and make sure they work.

 

[jayembee]

So far none of my 33 twilight time blu rays have stopped working. The one I play a lot is la Bamba. No issues over here maybe it’s the player for some of you. I still have a few twilight time movies that I haven’t seen yet. I’ll have to watch them and make sure they work.

I would not be surprised. I haven't gotten around to checking my TT discs yet, but when I've checked Warner DVDs from the problematic 2005-2009 period, most of the time they won't work in one of my players, but will work in another.

 

[redeye007]

Yeah I do believe it’s the player

 

[redeye007]

I would not be surprised. I haven't gotten around to checking my TT discs yet, but when I've checked Warner DVDs from the problematic 2005-2009 period, most of the time they won't work in one of my players, but will work in another.

I do believe it’s the player

 

[Konstantinos]

These were the titles I scanned from beginning to end

How do you check a disc without having to play the whole film?
play and fast forward?

 

[Worth]

How do you check a disc without having to play the whole film?
play and fast forward?

I just chapter skip and watch 15-20 seconds of the beginning of each chapter.

 

[Noel Aguirre]

Lost Horizon plays fine.

 

[Thomas T]

How do you check a disc without having to play the whole film?
play and fast forward?

What Worth said (post #257).

 

[jcroy]

How do you check a disc without having to play the whole film?
play and fast forward?

Check the entire dvd (or bluray) disc on a computer.