Techie question about DVDs
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:15 pm
........have bought a few now, and most play fine.
BUT.....on playback some have a black, more or less solid, horizontal bar that appears and goes at random, just below the top of the picture (in bad cases it can go nearly halfway down), breaks up, reappears, and drives me totally batshit.
I assume it's a production flaw, and unique to the copy I have (i.e. if I obtained a replacement there would be no guarantee the bar would be absent- it might just manifest itself in a different fashion). Am I right in blaming the producers, or are they using a cheapo duplicating service?
BUT.....on playback some have a black, more or less solid, horizontal bar that appears and goes at random, just below the top of the picture (in bad cases it can go nearly halfway down), breaks up, reappears, and drives me totally batshit.
I assume it's a production flaw, and unique to the copy I have (i.e. if I obtained a replacement there would be no guarantee the bar would be absent- it might just manifest itself in a different fashion). Am I right in blaming the producers, or are they using a cheapo duplicating service?