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The DVD don't play, innit...
« on: June 29, 2006, 03:17:41 PM »
Well I am a big Catherine Tate fan. As far as I am concerned, that is second only to Smith and Jones in terms of pure comic genius. I am waiting for the Smith and Jones DVD to be released.
Anyway, I bought the Catherine Tate DVD series 1 for my sister in the US. I sent it over and she tells me it doesn't play. According to her it has this black and white venetian blinds effect. Now that sounds to me like a PAL/NTSC problem, but here is the deal: when I was there last year I bought my folks a brand new TV, DVD, and VCR player. I researched the DVD player very carefully before I chose it. I made sure it could play anything: any region, any disc. Am I right in saying that this can't be a region problem, because the disc does play. Is there something I can tell her to try? I have already suggested that she tries it on the PC. I checked the disc here before I sent it and I know it is fine because it played here at home.
I thought that sort of problem only happened with tapes...

 

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Re: The DVD don't play, innit...
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2006, 10:45:55 PM »
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Ja, I'll see what happens when she tries the PC. I hope she gets it to play on the PC because as far as I can tell no NTSC versions exist.
 

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Re: The DVD don't play, innit...
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2006, 02:14:13 PM »
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This is the player click

As you can see it should play any DVD. I haven't heard back from my sister yet but I am wondering why it plays like that...
 

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Re: The DVD don't play, innit...
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2006, 08:41:09 PM »
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Thanks, that seems logical, I'll tell my sister to try to change the settings on the DVD player. I know if I was there I would have the problem licked soon enough...but you know women  :-P