Bad DVD's

[Heretic]

The last couple months I have had two DVD's where the sound and picture are out of sync by about 1 second. Anyone else have this problem?

The titles I had problems with were "Eye See You" and "Tomcats".

 

[John Z]

No, I haven't had that problem. I've had another problem (my DVD player was purchased Dec '99 I think). Some DVDs have ... well, a slight pause in them at one point in the movie. It doesn't skip any time, it just pauses for a moment.

A friend of mine had the same problem you had. He would have to hit stop and then play again, and the sound would synch up with the video. Other problems cropped up where it wouldn't even play some disks. He eventually just got another DVD player (actually a PS2 game player), and all the problems went away.

So, I'm thinking it could be your DVD player starting to crap out. Though I'm not certain. Could be the DVDs I suppose. Is your player an older model?

 

[justhangn]

I've seen this problem on serveral different DVD's.

 

[BudoPo]

The DVDs have a dual recording layer, so that pause is just the head moving back to the edge of the disk after it reached the end of the first layer so it can start reading the second layer.