DVD Password???
 

I often buy used DVD's at the pawn shop and last week I bought "Jack Frost 2", some chessy horror movie about a mutant snowman for $4.00. When I put the DVD in both my DVD player and in my computer it asks for some "password" and it won't play the movie at all.... what's up with this?? I've never seen this before.

Rob

Maybe your DVD player has the parental lock on and it blocks R rated movies. Check your DVD player user manual to reset the password.

agreed.

sounds good, but I play R rated movies all the time and never had this problem and why does it also do it on my computer DVD player??

I dunno. Ask mom and dad.

Try "WhothefuckwouldactuallybuyJackFrost2"...

Jack Frost 2 is a bit weak, but ...

Personally, I find Jack Frost 6 to be a minor classic ...

this coming from someone who has all 9 seasons of Friends in thier collection...

:D just kidding

what can I say, I like really cheesy bad cult movies.

I ran into this problem myself trying to play a "racy" anime on my new Yamakawa DVD player. I didn't even know there was password protection in the unit. Perused the manual, checked and found it was unlocked. Still wouldn't play. Noticed that the DVD had an NC-17 rating. Went into the parental control menu and changed the rating from level 8 (anything) to level 7 (NC-17). Bingo...DVD played. See if your unit is similar.

Phil

Yep, just checked my unit for the hell of it and found this setting under the "General" tab in the "Set-up" menu. It's called "Parental Lock". Mine was set at Level 8.

According to all logic, the player should play any DVD with a rating lower than, or equal to, the player setting. I would have assumed, then that if set at level 8 ( the highest) it would play anything, especially an NC-17, which is the level 7 setting. Didn't turn out to be. There was obviously a disagreement between the player software and the encoded parental setting on the DVD. Setting the DVD player to the same level as the DVD resolved the issue. It shouldn't have been necessary :brickwl: , but sometimes we've got to be smarter than (and think outside) the box :) .

Phil