Stupid Q Dpt: why do our public library-borrowed DVDs ..."gaslight"?

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TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

DVD movie fans will know George Cuckor's classic film I'm referring to in my title.

Light goes up, light goes down... Goes up, goes down... ...Till you go crazy... or think so anyway...

What does it mean? Most of the times when my wife brings home used DVDs from the pubic library, they shimmer like that... but only on our home theater player! I switch those library DVDs on our bedroom player, and they play perfectly!

But the DVDs we buy new show no problems on the home theater system!

We have analog cable only, and our set-up includes a VCR, to which the home theater player is connected. My son says he suspects the library DVDs have been "tampered with" somehow to prevent us from dubbing the films to VHS tape, and thus detect this VCR connection... Does that make any sense at all?

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Topic - Stupid Q Dpt: why do our public library-borrowed DVDs ..."gaslight"? - ParloFax 07:51:21 08/28/08 (5)

What's even stupider is... - mrspindlelegs 15:27:07 08/29/08 (1)

RE: What's even stupider is... - ParloFax 18:12:43 08/29/08 (0)

Try this... - Alex F. 11:24:07 08/28/08 (2)

Bull's eye!! - ParloFax 17:32:45 08/28/08 (1)

RE: Bull's eye!! - Alex F. 11:31:20 08/29/08 (0)

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