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Wrong audio track plays on DVD player

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numcrun

Jan 1, 1970
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I have 2 year old Akai ADV-2280 dvd player. I have "La Dolce Vita",
the 2 disc edition. When I play it the commentary track plays instead
of the movie soundtrack. I got another copy, same problem. Then I
tried it on my new player, it plays fine. The Akai player plays all
other DVDs fine, although I have had to replace a couple of
electrolytic capactitors due to odd behaviour. All the electrocaps on
the power board test OK at the moment. I'm stumped, any ideas?
 
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Mark D. Zacharias

Jan 1, 1970
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Select a different audio stream in the menu's?

The disc could be defectively mastered. I've never seen this but it's bound
to happen. Try the disc on a friends' player.

Mark Z.
 
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numcrun

Jan 1, 1970
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I have tried it on another player, as I said in the post, and it
played fine. So I don't think it's defective mastering.
 
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Chuck Harris

Jan 1, 1970
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numcrun said:
I have tried it on another player, as I said in the post, and it
played fine. So I don't think it's defective mastering.

Once apon a time, back when DVD players were very expensive, and
relatively rare, there was a website that did comparisons of the
accuracy with which different players rendered certain media.

Well, most were pretty good, but each had a problem with some
test DVD or another. I know "The Big Lebowski" was one of the
test DVD's, and I seem to recall that "La Dolca Vita" was another.

The test DVDs were chosen for their ability to screw up the
various rendering programs.

-Chuck Harris
 
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LASERandDVDfan

Jan 1, 1970
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I have tried it on another player, as I said in the post, and it
played fine. So I don't think it's defective mastering.

Check to see if there is a default language settings in the player's setup
menu.

This menu sets the player to automatically select which soundtrack and which
subtitles by default when playing without going through the menu. - Reinhart
 
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