DVD Players

[necko]

I rented 2 movies fr Rogers this week but DVD wouldn't play on my DVD player , took them back and was told my player was too old, I go HUH?? only bought last year, anyways couldn't get a good why not fr little girls working desk, I'm thinking some one here might know How Come?

 

[Rob1]

Wer they HD or Blu Ray ??

 

[pickupjoe]

DVD player too old? I have never heard that one before. My DVD player is over 2.5 years old and never got a problem with DVD rentals. Did ya try another DVD on your player?

 

[necko]

DVD player too old? I have never heard that one before. My DVD player is over 2.5 years old and never got a problem with DVD rentals. Did ya try another DVD on your player?

Yea I did after grand kids went home I put in one of my dvd's (porn)worked fine HD, don't know what rogers were, and to be honest when I bought these never looked, just thought I like EdPowewrs porn, I'll like these ones, I really don't understand this, why Two systems or more

 

[threepeat]

Back in the day, I remember "The Matrix" wouldn't play on some of the older players.

Not sure why, but I'm guessing some security features (anti-copying) were added to some later generation DVD players that your player may have trouble reading.

 

[necko]

So I'm more confused now than before Phoned a buddy and he thinks its a security thing put in by Rogers, to stop coping,even though all we wanted to do was watch The Incredables and Ice Age 2,they gave me my money back no problem.This sorta pisses me off why be so concerned about that, I'd be more concerned over customer satisfaction

 

[dr_pepper]

When DVD players were still in the $300 price range, costco had a sanyo for under $200. Worked great for a year and then it started to think the newer DVD's coming out were in some other region. I called their tech support, they knew about it and gave a work around by programming the DVD player to play the movie (had a program button so you'd hit a sequence of keys that would bypass all the crap at the beginning of the dvd and go straight to the movie). Anyway, might be something similar, but Incredibles has been out for what 2 or 3 years now. I'd agree with your pal that Rogers is doing something funky.

 

[hitrack]

tell the clerk to re-burn their discs at 4X instead of 16X.
=)

LOL!!!!!

What the dizzy little hired help babe didn't tell ya is welcome to technology and to questions like how come it works on my neighbours player and not mine, but we own the same player, or my player is a year newer than his?!?!?!

She should have just said "sucks to own your player" and let you pick two different ones. Maybe your player is getting:

1) to old
2) it's fukking up
3) lens is dirty or missaligned due to shock, or suspension getting old. (kinda the same as #2)

Buy a new cheap player. No point dropping $100+ on a fukkin DVD player anymore.

 

[hornyitalian06]

I have rented DVDs from Blockbuster and I never experienced any problems with my DVD player and it is 3 years old . I have never rented any movies, videos or DVDs from Rogers.

 

[badwolfcgy]

I have two DVD players on the main TV system. An expensive Hitachi and a cheapo Norcent POS. The Norcent will play just about any type of disk and video type and the expensive DVD player can't or won't.
If you have an older DVD player you may be SOL due to the region coding on the disk. I had a Sanyo player that had to be hacked to play some movies that were bought here.
MPAA can DIAF.

 

[Dakota Wood]

I rented final destination 3. It was the alternate scene version. On one dvd player, it skipped every scene that had an alternative, on the player in my bedroom it worked just fine. I didn't think to ask why it happened tho'. I assumed it was something to do with the age difference. One player is five years old, the other less then two.

 

[SexMachineGun]

for all of you that didnt know the secret behind dvd players and all the anti-piracy junk. here i'll tell yah.

the higher priced dvd players under the big box brand names like sony hitachi toshiba etc.... have very very very strict production policies about what they can and cannot play its all embedded into the hardware at a software lvl in the firmware of each player. all the north american players under these brands will only play Region 1 dvd's .. etc. and they will have a block on the screen if you try and 'dub' it or capture it with capture equipment. not always but yeah it happens.

if you wish to avoid and not have to worry about the copy protection stuff .. get the cheapest player around