DVD problem


Earlier this year, I purchased the Anchor Bay release of this film from Border's. I'm not aware of any other company release. Despite the fact that the menu would display and that the trailer would play, whenever I would try to play the movie itself, my player would show NO DISC. I traded it in for another copy thinking that it was defective, but no, the very same problem. I took it to a store specializing in buying and selling used DVDs that a friend of mine managed, and wouldn't you know it, the third copy had the same problem. Also, three other DVDs released from Anchor Bay that I bought wouldn't play correctly: Heathers, Society, and Soldier of Orange. I watched Heathers one time and about 3/4 of the way through, it started skipping. Now when I try to play it, I get the same NO DISC display on my player. As far as Soldier of Orange and Society, NO DISC was displayed from the beginning. There are no visible scratches on the discs as they were brand new and as far as my player goes, all the other discs I have play fine. The manager friend of mine has the same problem with his copy of Heathers. We both have Toshiba players, so thinking it was a Toshiba problem, I played them on various models to no avail. Trying to watch Nightmare City has been a real nightmare. Does anyone have the same dilemma?

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The only other problem I could think of is that your player will only read certain disc formats, and that Anchor Bay's disc format for those four titles (which were all released before 2001, if I remember correctly) is too old for your DVD player. Either that or your player's lens is dirty. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

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i have a 3 year old toshiba dvd player and my copy worked fine. i have heathers, too, and i haven't had a problem.

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99.9 % chance its your player. My copy is fine.

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thats funny you mention it. When i first got it, my movie wouldnt play either. so what i did was i used one of those dvd dr's on it. ya know ya put the disc in the holder, spray it with some chimical, and it revolves and a wheel cleans the disc. after i did that and cleaned it up a little bit, it works no problem.

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i've had several anchor bay discs foul up lately. i exchanged them and now they work fine. my dvd player is having a horrible time playing mgm discs though. it'll start to play them and then stutter several times during the course of the movie...in different places everytime. its a new philips and this is the second time i've exchanged it. oddly, this particular movie worked fine. got lucky i guess.

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i would defo say that it is your dvd players lense ive had the exact problem many times and i know it sounds stupid but i put it down to smoking too close to my dvd player it doesnt half dirty your lense and when you load a disc it just says no disc all the time but sometimes it does actually work you probably think im talking a load of old bollocks but i aint

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Yeah I read somewhere on the internet that ALL brands of DVD players have one studio or another's movies not play on them (or sometimes just certain movies from that studio). There's one that won't play Disney, one that won't play WB and so on. The DVD player I had before the one I have now wouldn't play "Top Secret" and that turned out to be the DVD player's fault. My NEW one will. I JUST won an auction for this DVD on ebay tonight so I hope I don't have the same situation happen to me.

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I have found Anchor Bay's DVD's to be some of the best, and most trouble free. I am going to guess that you have an older DVD player...

My advice. Go to your nearest electronic retailer and buy a $30-$40 DVD player. These tend to work flawlessly (the even play burnt DVD's which expensive DVD players will not)...

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