From: epwise@yahoo.com   
      
   DSF  wrote in   
   news:9ufdn9llnqhijdd50t5cct1h77qfoamb9g@4ax.com:   
      
   > Hello!   
   >   
   >   How are your DVDs holding up?   
   >   
   >   I am sorry to say that mine, in the range of seasons 7~10+, are not   
   > doing so well.  I first noticed the problem during "The Springfield   
   > Files."  Shortly after Homer came home after his encounter, the video   
   > started freezing.  Every episode after is unplayable as well.  It's   
   > been a little while since I noticed this because I've been playing the   
   > older seasons, so I don't remember exactly which season/discs are   
   > effected.  I do know that "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" is among the   
   > dead.   
   >   
   >   Of course I tried various players and DVD drives in various   
   > computers.  All the same.   
   >   
      
   How many discs are involved?  Have they played in the past and now   
   don't? Different discs from different seasons?   
      
   One disc might be FOX's fault.  Maybe several from ONE set.   
   If you're suddenly getting problems from several sets either your   
   equipment is faulty or you're ruining your own discs somehow.   
      
      
   >   Their are no scratches or discolorations on the effected discs.  And   
   > they have been kept either in the player or their storage cases.   
   >   
   >   Anybody else having problems?   
   >   
   >   Anyone think I'd have a chance complaining to Fox?   
      
   No, especially not if they played right before.   
      
   > After all I'm   
   > paying to "lease" the content, not the physical disc.   
      
   Uh, no.   
      
   > And the   
   > physical disc is blocking the content!   
   >   
      
   Yeah, that's what a faulty disc generally does.  Doesn't have to be   
   FOX's fault.   
      
   >   Anybody know of software that will test copy protected discs for   
   > errors?  I don't mind watching them, but a faster than real-time scan   
   > would allow me to check ALL my discs and see if the Simpsons' DVDs are   
   > an isolated incident.  No need to suggest DVD Shrink, etc.  Programs   
   > like it are made to try their best to correct errors.  Also suggested   
   > was Nero Disc Speed, but it does not check protected discs.   
   >   
   > DSF   
   > "'Later' is the beginning of what's not to be."   
   > D.S. Fiscus   
   >   
      
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