Chapter 1

52 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD
TABLE 1-1 DVD Problems (continued)
Title Player Problem Solution
Avengers TV Toshiba SD-3108 Locks up player Upgrade available from
series (A&E) Toshiba service centers
Philips 930, 935 Won’t load Check with Philips
for firmware upgrade
Back to the Future Various players “Anecdote” subpictures Unknown
Trilogy (region 4) don’t play properly
Bats Apex AD 600A Won’t load Check with Apex for
upgrade
Big Trouble in Panasonic SC-DK3 Won’t load Unplug player with disc
Little China inserted, then plug it in,
Special Edition and turn it on
The Blair Witch Some Toshiba Doesn’t play Upgrade available from
Project players properly Toshiba service centers
Cruel Intentions Some JVC and An error in first release Reset the player or get
Yamaha players messes up the parental the corrected version of
controls, causing the disc or set the
other discs to not parental country code
play to AD with a password
of 8888
Deep Blue Sea Similar problems as The Matrix
Dinosaur Many players Won’t load, ejects Authoring problem, so
(JVC-XV501BK, disc, freezes, skips, contact Disney for a
Philips DVD781 CH, slow menus, won’t replacement (also see
Pioneer DV-737/ pause/forward/rewind, Disney’s The Kid below)
DV-37/DV-09/ or sound cuts out
DVL-919/DV-525/
DVL-90/KV-301C,
Sony 7700, Panasonic
A300, Toshiba
SD-3109, RCA 5220,
Denon DVD 2500,
Magnavox DVD502AT,
Toshiba 2109/3109,
JVC XV-D2000/
V-D701, Oritron
DVD600/DVD100,
Sylvania DVL100A,
and others)
The Kid Many players (Apex Skips, ejects disc, Authoring problem, so
600AD, Philips 711, freezes, blue contact Disney for a
Pioneer DV-737, lines onscreen replacement (solution
RCA, and others) on Philips player: put
disc in player drawer