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Problem with Chinese disk . . .

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mr grits

Got a copy of "Gloomy Sunday" from HK last week and tried to watch it a few days ago. The disk is labeled NTSC but is printed in Chinese. My Oppo is set to Region Free and I set it up to play in Hungarian with English subtitles. The native audio is Chinese. The longer it played the more out of synch the subtitles became. Before it finally froze (about 60% through) the subtitles were lagging 4 to 5 seconds.
I'm not sure if this is the player or the disk. I was wondering if I were asking the Oppo to do "too much"?
Any ideas?
PS. No visible damage to the disk whatsoever.

Edits: 02/05/09

Follow Ups:

RE: Problem with Chinese disk . . . - cfraser 11:24:29 02/06/09 (2)
I have noticed similar with some of the Hong Kong DVDs I have. (BTW, they are legitimate Hong Kong studio releases, not boots.) And, when a few of them were released on a North American label (Fox/Fortune Star), they had the same out of sync captions. Just 1 or 2 seconds off, but about as annoying as lip-sync being a fraction off. It is hard to say whether that or the dubbed English track is worse...
- The HK guy has offered to send a replacement.....to what end, I wonder? * - mr grits 15:13:38 02/06/09 (1)
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  - RE: The HK guy has offered to send a replacement.....to what end, I wonder? * - cfraser 20:40:56 02/06/09 (0)
    Yeah, agreed. This is not like a lip sync issue which can often be caused by local system processing (as opposed to the "old days" where it was almost always on the disc). This sync problem is recorded and the only benefit you may get from a new copy is it plays all the way through.
    
    I get the impression this may be a Chinese boot of a Hong Kong film (they boot everything LOL). Some of the Chinese boots have terrific-looking packaging. Some of them are essentially perfect copies of the legitimate issue. That's kinda what I was inferring above: the official releases *may* have the same sync issues. I know Fox didn't clean that part up when they issued some HK movies in NA, though they did an otherwise good job.
Chinese bootlegs are notorious for problems like that... - racerguy 06:13:00 02/06/09 (2)
...which is (yet another) good reason not to buy or use them.
- The packaging is fantabulous......Oppo said it may be a mastering problem. * - mr grits 15:11:53 02/06/09 (1)
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  - Yeah, I've seen a lot of slick-looking Chinese bootlegs - racerguy 16:15:56 02/06/09 (0)
    A friend of mine used to bring them home with him from trips to China. Many of them were beautifully packaged. The most elaborate packaging even had authentic-looking authenticity decals on it - turned out to be a Handycam video of the movie from a seat in the audience :)

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