just4kix
Well-Known Member
I have the entire 10 seasons of the sitcom Friends on DVD. As far I am concerned, this is my prized possesion that I like to watch often - especially if I feel bored or even depressed. To me, each episode of Friends has a feel good factor that I can't easily attribute. Well, there are many who hate the sitcom, but that is a different matter.
Of late, I have found that almost all the 40 discs are stuttering or freezing badly. Some get stuck at the main menu itself and player says invalid disc or ERR. I tried the discs in Sony BDP, Panasonic BDP, Pioneer DVDP, desktop DVD drive, laptop DVD drive, etc. All NADA. I tried cleaning by various methods, plain water, mild soap, alcohol - no luck. The discs themselves show hardly any scratches or smudges. Funnily enough, only the Friends DVDs are giving a problem. My much older DVDs are working fine. The DVD of The Hunt for Red October is badly scratched but works fine.
I like the series so much that I even thought of buying the entire set of blu-ray. But I came to know that the BD set covers broadcast espisodes only while the DVDs contain all the episodes with extended version - each episode is at least 5 minutes longer than the broadcast version of 22 minutes. Hence I gave up on that idea.
I feel very frustrated. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Of late, I have found that almost all the 40 discs are stuttering or freezing badly. Some get stuck at the main menu itself and player says invalid disc or ERR. I tried the discs in Sony BDP, Panasonic BDP, Pioneer DVDP, desktop DVD drive, laptop DVD drive, etc. All NADA. I tried cleaning by various methods, plain water, mild soap, alcohol - no luck. The discs themselves show hardly any scratches or smudges. Funnily enough, only the Friends DVDs are giving a problem. My much older DVDs are working fine. The DVD of The Hunt for Red October is badly scratched but works fine.
I like the series so much that I even thought of buying the entire set of blu-ray. But I came to know that the BD set covers broadcast espisodes only while the DVDs contain all the episodes with extended version - each episode is at least 5 minutes longer than the broadcast version of 22 minutes. Hence I gave up on that idea.
I feel very frustrated. Any suggestions would be welcome.