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RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question!

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In Reply to: RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! posted by Jazz Inmate on March 04, 2010 at 11:24:28

I was trying to only keep quite repeatable things as "bugs". There are no doubt lots of individual circumstances with specific discs that I wouldn't know about. I have one DVD with a manufacturing "glitch" that ONLY plays through in the BDP-83, so can go either way. Also there are self-made DVDs of all descriptions and formats I couldn't comment on.
Something like the Star Trek BD Dolby TrueHD dropout while bitstreaming is a bug of some sort, but is very unrepeatable, both in duration and location. Still, it's noticed by just about everybody to some extent (my only dropout was for less than 0.5s). I forgot about that bug above. [My PS3 is "old" and doesn't bitstream TrueHD so no problem with that player.]
To me the most annoying thing is the propensity for lockups. This happens way too often IMO; I have DVD players I've used for years that it never happened once, and never happens with my PS3. It's something to do with the HDMI handshaking, and is most likely to happen when changing disc formats (least for me).
The thing that annoys me second most is when fast-forwarding at certain speeds past a chapter stop on a DVD: the player can jump ahead 1 or 2 chapter stops. This is very repeatable, been going on for a long time, and hard to believe they haven't fixed it by now. Doesn't happen with BDs. [I watch lots of TV DVDs, and like to skip past the opening credits, and many don't have a chapter stop at the end of them...so I see this bug a lot.] Since I bought the "premium" BDP-83 for DVD (IMO it's the only thing it does significantly better than my other players, via HDMI), I wish they'd pay a little more attention to fixing the other minor DVD bugs too. I do realise DVD (and CD) are the least "sexy" aspects of the player for many people, but the DVD ability is the major selling point of this player over some others HT-wise so should be attended to.

Edits: 03/04/10

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