We dutifully purchased and viewed this DVD, The Two Towers, widescreen edition , on the day of it’s release, Tuesday, August 26, 2003. What happened throughout was not understood until stark awakement at the end when it was bad.<\/p>\n
The DVD, brand new, was jumping a bit, then really bad. Hmm. So my hubby returned it today and of course, I had to view it tonight. Got to the same part of the movie that was the worst last night, and it did the same thing. Then I tested it via scene selection, as I did last night with the first DVD, and it repeated the error, yet to a later scene. The thing that it is, is this:<\/p>\n
Chapter 51, Gandalf and the others appear, this is right near the end … it skips back to Chapter 26 — when the people, on their way to Helms Deep, are attacked. This isn’t exactly my idea of a good way to view a movie. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So now, we have to check out how it works in my laptop, and how it works on the other DVD player, downstairs. I hope it’s not a DVD disc issue, but on the other hand I hate to see it’s an issue with our DVD player. It’s been around for a while, a second-generation Sony, when second-generation was new to DVD. <\/p>\n
All in all , it’s great to have The Two Towers in our home on the TV Screen. I’d just like to see the last several minutes of it as it’s supposed to be run.<\/p>\n
I’ve done a little bit of searching online, not much, mind you, to see if any other complaints like this have popped up. Nothing that I found. So here’s my offering to the inernet community. Anyone else having problems with this DVD?<\/p>\n
It’s late at night, 12:55am right now, and I just couldn’t resist testing this out on my laptop. Drats, it works fine. Well. That’s that. This isn’t a movie to watch in our Sony player, because of a problem unique to our own, or due to the technology that’s older? That’s what I’m seeking, an answer to that.<\/p>\n
Well, I haven’t watched a movie on my laptop in a long time. Oh the picture is smaller, but it’s so much nicer. So this test had a two-fold result. The Two Towers DVD is not broken, and I now will have the desire to view movies on my laptop more often. The picture is so crisp and lovely on this 16 inch LCD monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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