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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Rogue One: A DVD Media Story

     Let me say to start off with that I loved Rogue One in theater, and was very excited for it to come out on DVD. Let me say also that I think this story is at least as funny as it is frustrating.

A Short Time Ago, at a Walmart Near to my House...


     So Tuesday night, I bought my Rogue One DVD, at Walmart. Wednesday, I went to play it.

A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...went by, kind of fast I thought. it ran through the rest of the sequence pre-title, except Saw Gerrera's speech to Jyn is cut short. And then there is a skip in the title sequence. And another skip. and another.

     Wednesday evening, I take the DVD back to a different Walmart for replacement. Thursday I go to play it. A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...went by, kind of fast and I thought...no way. Same Skips, same spots. I call Walmart. I explain the situation, and someone from their electronics dept. tells me I can't even exchange it now. I call back, get the manager who directs me to the electronics dept. manager, and he tells me that I can trade it, approved by him.
   
     So Thursday evening, I swap my DVD(at Walmart Cust Svc. suggestion) for a Blu ray at no extra charge. Walmart went above and beyond on this, and I do not fault them at all. This was a ridiculous situation, made farcical by the second replacement. This is also my first ever Blu ray Disc.

     I try it in my Blu ray drive on my PC, it works, but VLC player doesn't play it. I find and try "Leawo player" and it starts playing beautifully...until it skips later into the movie than I had previously gotten...

    Sunday, I put in the code for the digital copy, and watched that. No Skips.

     So today, I am wondering if I am the only one to experience this, or if others can tell a similar tale of mishap. I google-searched, facebook searched, and I appear to be the single purchaser of multiple bad copies, tested in multiple DVD players. Also- when my niece borrows it, we will see if it just hates my players, or if it's bad. Or maybe it just hates my family...

7 comments:

  1. Bought it on bluray played it on a ps4 with no issues.

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  2. The only things rogue and from a galaxy far far away might be your DVD players ;) Time to upgrade!

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  3. As you may have read, I have quite a few copies of the movie. Long story short, no issue with any of them so far.

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  4. I should have noted that I tried this in two DVD drives and one Blu Ray drive on my PC- that is where I do my movie-watching

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  5. Just Googled this as my copy is skipping as well, and it sounds like it's in exactly the same places.

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  6. huh! on a PC or DVD player? and bought at Walmart or...?

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  7. I had a similar problem with a Rogue One DVD that I purchased on ebay recently.

    The DVD skipped frequently when playing on a Windows 7 desktop PC plus on a Windows 10 laptop, both of which I tried with Windows Media Player and VLC.

    However, it played smoothly without any errors on an old 2008 3.1 Mac Pro.

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