Re: Dodgy disc, player or TV?

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's what you get for waiting for it to hit the bargain bins!

;-)



John Andrews wrote:
> Mal
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> Thats right spoil the ending of LOTR for those of us who have not
> seen it!
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> 8-)
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> J
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:36 AM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Dodgy disc, player or TV?
>
>
>> I was watching the first Lord of the Rings film on DVD (region 2)
>> last night, and noticed some horrible problems with black areas of
>> the screen. In dark scenes, the areas that should have been the
>> blackest were instead tinted a dark red colour - lighter than the
>> surrounding "almost blacks", which were displayed
correctly.  The
>> black bars above and below the picture were also displayed with a
>> dark reddish tint.  This effect is bad enough in RGB mode; using
the
>> composite connection it's so bad as to be unwatchable.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen artifacts like this on this DVD?  None of my
>> discs seem to exhibit this problem.  I ask because if there was an
>> encoding fault that has been rectified in later batches, then I
>> could potentially get the disk swapped for a newer one, otherwise
I
>> guess I'm stuck with it.
>>
>> On a maybe related note, in LOTR: The Return of the King, in the
>> scene after the ring has been destroyed and the Frodo wakes up to
be
>> greeted by his little hobbit chums (chapter 56), the image is so
>> bright it leaves green and purple patches on the screen!  Maybe my
>> contrast is set a bit high...
>>
>> Mal
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