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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil.T" data-source="post: 458091" data-attributes="member: 4160">Mm. Hear, hear. The swing-arm style only adds an extra breakable component to the mix anyway.You know, I have a weird glitch with disc 1 of MVM's Love Hina DVD boxset. I bought it out of Forbidden Planet in London some years ago. Forbidden Planet being what they are, the case is empty and the discs are stored in envelopes behind the till. Disc 1 has I suppose some very light scratches, but nothing I would really take seriously. With my old Sony DVD player, the picture briefly freezes at the same point during the third episode, with occasional stuttering for the remaining ones. The trailers are actually unplayable, though; the picture just freezes repeatedly until it eventually moves on to the next trailer when it somehow still reaches the next title marker.I tried the disc in a PlayStation2 and it just freezes completely, much earlier in episode 3, and says "Unable to read disc".This is where it gets weird. I put the disc back into the Sony DVD player. Wondering whether some kind of vibration might be at fault, I lifted the player up off its shelf. Thinking of the "anti-jog" system on some old portable CD players, I tried jolting the player. Amazingly, every time I tilted the DVD player sharply to the left, the picture "unjammed". I found that by rocking the player sharply left then gently right repeatedly, the trailers played perfectly, with no hiccup whatsoever! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" />I live far too far away from London to take the boxset back to Forbidden Planet, so I tried copying the disc (a DVD-5) onto a DVD+RW using a PC. It read the disc just fine, and the copy plays perfectly.In more recent times, I tried the original disc in my current Sony Blu-ray player. Everything plays fine until it reaches the end of the last trailer. Then it crashes completely, forcing you to turn the player off at the mains. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />I can see nothing physically unusual about the disc at all. How very bizarre.</blockquote>

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