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I am brand new to the DVD crowd, and have only played two DVDs, but there were some brief freezing problems on one. I bought them both brand new. Star Wars II Attack of the Clones played fine, but The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition (spread over two DVDs) froze for a second in five or six places over the two DVDs (I haven't played the other two DVDs with the extras on them yet). I have a Panasonic RV 32 player. My brother said he has had DVDs freeze occasionally (he has a Philips DVD player). I just wondered if this is to be expected since the technology is relatively new, or if I should try a new DVD or new player. Thanks.
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My Toshibas SD-9200 freezes when once in a while when I jump from one of those ultra fast scan (either ff or rev) to play. Pressing stop and play resolves that issue w/o losing my place.My other JVC seems to freeze on some occasions, but I haven't used it enough to notice when. It frequently has massive pixelation problem which is a non-issue on the Toshiba. But it could read the TOC of some disc in which the Toshiba has trouble with.
I presume it is because these are heavily software based unit and have to be brought into production ASAP due to their short lifespan, so frequently not all the bugs are worked out.
I am always surprised when I hear about this sort of problem on fairly new DVD players. I have a 3.5 year old basic Toshiba DVD player, and I have had no freezing issues, other than the layer change. I get a brief, ~1 second, freeze whenever there is a layer change, but that is only once per DVD side. Unless the DVD is physically damaged, I have never had any feezing or block-noise problems with any DVD, new or old.Make sure your DVDs are clean - dust and fingerprint free. If this happens with most clean DVDs, you may have a defective DVD player. As far as I know, this is not a common complaint for the RV-32.
I have an old Toshiba SD-1200 in my downstairs, casual system and a Panasonic RP91 in my home theater. Neither has given me, in the words of good ol' Andy Griffith, "a lick of trouble."If still under warranty, I'd return for another unit.
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