Re: shop opening hours : Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:30 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote: With regard to the DVD's being sold They are formatted in the -R recording format. This is incompatible with certain types of DVD players. you need to check with your players manual if it can play such disks. Also different manufacturers support different formats For further info about DVD formats go to the following link. http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Har ... lained.asp To be fair - my brother's version works perfectly fine, albeit some of the interviews were missing audio. On the same dvd player, mine wouldn't work at all. So that's nowt to do with DVD formats, just shoddy dvds.

The Chair Maker wrote: With regard to the DVD's being sold They are formatted in the -R recording format. This is incompatible with certain types of DVD players. you need to check with your players manual if it can play such disks. Also different manufacturers support different formats For further info about DVD formats go to the following link. http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Har ... lained.asp To be fair - my brother's version works perfectly fine, albeit some of the interviews were missing audio. On the same dvd player, mine wouldn't work at all. So that's nowt to do with DVD formats, just shoddy dvds.

Re: shop opening hours : Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:38 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

They should play on a DVD player. Mine does, no probs. I bought it from the same outlet as everyone else.

Not necessarily, I have had dvds that play fine on one dvd player and the pc but not on my other (more expensive) one.

Re: shop opening hours : Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:44 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

To be fair - my brother's version works perfectly fine, albeit some of the interviews were missing audio. On the same dvd player, mine wouldn't work at all.

So that's nowt to do with DVD formats, just shoddy dvds.

Agree that poor copying will be the fault of some of the issues. However not all.

Sometimes the DVD player itself may be compatible, but have a poor quality laser and lense that has difficulty reading the data.

There are also countless people who treat DVD's very poorly, and allow muck to get on them, which consequently scratches them, and turns them into nothing more than coasters.
Despite the marketing hype which people fell for re alleged durability of cd's/DVD's, they are actually the least durable recording format out there.

Re: shop opening hours : Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:47 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

There are also countless people who treat DVD's very poorly, and allow muck to get on them, which consequently scratches them, and turns them into nothing more than coasters.

I would think that between opening a DVD case for the first time on christmas morning and placing the dvd in a dvd player seconds later, there's little scope for dropping it in a hole full of razor blades and horse dung.

Re: shop opening hours : Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:14 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

I would think that between opening a DVD case for the first time on christmas morning and placing the dvd in a dvd player seconds later, there's little scope for dropping it in a hole full of razor blades and horse dung.

Fingerprints can be enough to cause a player not to be able to read the data.

Re: shop opening hours : Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:56 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

Fingerprints can be enough to cause a player not to be able to read the data.

The data is recoreded in Binary in a series of bumps and lands. One fingerprint on a christmas morning would not be enough to stop the disk from working completely. Their would need to be some sort of damage to the bumps and/or lands in order for the disk to be faulty. In the case where one disk is working on a DVD player but another disk isnt working on the same DVD player; formatting isnt an issue, it is undoubtedly shoddy copying.