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William Sommerwerck
- Jan 1, 1970
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My bedroom DVD player is the original Sony DVP-S7000, which I purchased at
half-price when it was discontinued in 1999. It's given good service, except
for locking up a few years ago, which turned out to be a good thing, because
I bought the then top-of-the line Sony for a ridiculous price. Anyhow...
I was going through a box of Cary Grant films, and "Destination Tokyo" just
didn't want to play (though every other disk, from that set and elsewhere,
was fine). About ten minutes into the film, it starting jumping forwards and
backwards, and sometimes halting altogether. If I walked away, I'd come back
to a blank blue screen.
Naturally, Warners wouldn't replace the disk, because it had been purchased
at retail, and Costco didn't have any more of the boxed sets.
I was looking at another film today, which had one or two "glitches" of this
sort, and it got me thinking. So I popped "Destination Tokyo" in my BD
player -- and it played flawlessly.
I'm starting to think that A: this pressing of "Destination Tokyo" is just a
skosh out of spec, and B: the laser in the DVP-S7000 is starting to decline,
which C: means that I'm seeing erratic behavior.
Any opinions? I'm not trying to start an excruciatingly long conversation.
Thanks.
half-price when it was discontinued in 1999. It's given good service, except
for locking up a few years ago, which turned out to be a good thing, because
I bought the then top-of-the line Sony for a ridiculous price. Anyhow...
I was going through a box of Cary Grant films, and "Destination Tokyo" just
didn't want to play (though every other disk, from that set and elsewhere,
was fine). About ten minutes into the film, it starting jumping forwards and
backwards, and sometimes halting altogether. If I walked away, I'd come back
to a blank blue screen.
Naturally, Warners wouldn't replace the disk, because it had been purchased
at retail, and Costco didn't have any more of the boxed sets.
I was looking at another film today, which had one or two "glitches" of this
sort, and it got me thinking. So I popped "Destination Tokyo" in my BD
player -- and it played flawlessly.
I'm starting to think that A: this pressing of "Destination Tokyo" is just a
skosh out of spec, and B: the laser in the DVP-S7000 is starting to decline,
which C: means that I'm seeing erratic behavior.
Any opinions? I'm not trying to start an excruciatingly long conversation.
Thanks.