"I'm a baaaaaaaad disc" or my terrible night with Abbott and Costello
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"I'm a baaaaaaaad disc" or my terrible night with Abbott and Costello
Earlier this evening I expressed my love for Charlie Chaplin films. This love extends as well to the films of Abott and Costello, pictures I watched each Sunday at my dads place when it was "his weekend" growing up. When Universal started releasing these 8 per set I was thrilled and scooped up BOTH sets last week to prepare for set 3 (I couldn't hold out for a box set any longer).
This past week has been a blast! I watched two films a night (or so) and laughed and had a great time with these movies I remember so fondly from my childhood.
Until tonight...
I get to the second last film on disc 2 - Set One (Pardon my Saroong) and 20 min in it freezes. Just like that. I did everything I could to FIX it but it was still stuck. I figured I would take it back the next day for a replacement (I have to return it in 14 days and I have 3 left). Well, at least I had the other set to start watching now, right?
You guessed it, 1 minute into the second film on disc 1 - Set 2 (In Society) the same problem happens.
ARGH!
I then started reading how many of these sets are damaged and such. Are all of them like this?
This past week has been a blast! I watched two films a night (or so) and laughed and had a great time with these movies I remember so fondly from my childhood.
Until tonight...
I get to the second last film on disc 2 - Set One (Pardon my Saroong) and 20 min in it freezes. Just like that. I did everything I could to FIX it but it was still stuck. I figured I would take it back the next day for a replacement (I have to return it in 14 days and I have 3 left). Well, at least I had the other set to start watching now, right?
You guessed it, 1 minute into the second film on disc 1 - Set 2 (In Society) the same problem happens.
ARGH!
I then started reading how many of these sets are damaged and such. Are all of them like this?
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Just dumb like, I guess. I will return them thought the store I bought them from has no more copies, thus, I will have to wait for an order to come in and hope that the second go round with these are better then the first.
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UPDATE: I managed to get my money back after a SECOND set for Vol. 1 froze at the same place. I checked the discs at a friends house and they froze as well.
On my way home I pop into an HMV and they have Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 at two for $40 (CDN). That is 20 bucks cheaper then what I paid at the first store and I said, what the hell, I'll try again.
Vol. 1 seems okay (I am halfway thru Who Done It?) and another good thing is that I got the insert with Vol. 2 (something missing on both other sets).
*cross fingers*
On my way home I pop into an HMV and they have Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 at two for $40 (CDN). That is 20 bucks cheaper then what I paid at the first store and I said, what the hell, I'll try again.
Vol. 1 seems okay (I am halfway thru Who Done It?) and another good thing is that I got the insert with Vol. 2 (something missing on both other sets).
*cross fingers*
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I have had NO problems at all with all three collections.
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I stand corrected. After watching Vol. 2 Hit the Ice and Her Come the Co-Eds again on a new player I found that it does freeze. So I have one disc of Vol. 2 that won't play on one of my DVD players all the way through...but it works on my computer. I am not sure I'll replace it yet. It was cheap enough to just do later when I KNOW it's fixed.
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this sounds probally dumb but if you have a playstation 2 it might work,almost the same thing happened to me,plopped it in my playstation 2 and it worked fine,this has now happened to me 4 times with 4 different dvds,playstation 2 has worked,while my other dvd players didn`t come thru.
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I just purchased Vol. 3 this week and popped in Disk 2 to watch "A&C Meet the Invisible Man": the player spins for a while, then produces the error message, "DISK ERROR." It wouldn't play at all. I tried it a couple of times with same result. I am using two decent DVD players at home, a 1.5-year old Onkyo and a 2-month old Phillips. This A&C Vol. 3 DVD set is going back for a replacement, on par for Universal multi-episode releases.