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Title: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 04, 2007, 03:40:12 PM
Holy shit this is pissing me off. Last week I bought the Indiana Jones boxset from Walmart. I decided to watch one of the movies each day, so on the first day I watched Raiders, etc. Well yesterday I watched Last Crusade. Everything was going well until the last 35 minutes of the movie when it began skipping, freezing, and making noise in the DVD player (which I borrowed from my parents lol). There were NO scratches on the disk, but I decided to clean it anyway. I used the cloth that came with my DS carrying case so I wouldn't damage the disk. Once I put it back in it continued to fuck up.

So I decided shit, I'll try to finish watching the movie on my computer. I put it in and was automatically prompted to download some shitty DVD playing program; all my other DVDs are playable in a variety of good programs, from PowerDVD to Windows Media Player. The Indy DVDs don't give you the option to use any of these programs. To make matters worse, you can't hear any dialogue when watching them on a computer for some reason. Why would the DVD force you to download a program just to play it if the DVD had no audio on computers? WTF

I have the receipt and I'm taking this shit back tomorrow. I doubt I'll get a new copy. Raiders and Last Crusade are amazing movies, but Temple of Doom is laughable. So fuck it. I'll watch the documentary DVD tomorrow (assuming it even works) and then take this abortion back

 >:(
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment on March 04, 2007, 03:40:51 PM
When are you gonna buy Brazil and/or Seven Samurai from Shake-Mart?
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 04, 2007, 03:46:30 PM
Im waiting for the part of the story where this is wal-marts fault. Bad burns happen, and are shipped to a great many stores. I have no great love for walmart but come on...
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment on March 04, 2007, 03:48:02 PM
Quote from: MrAngryFace on March 04, 2007, 03:46:30 PM
Im waiting for the part of the story where this is wal-marts fault. Bad burns happen, and are shipped to a great many stores. I have no great love for walmart but come on...

True.
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 04, 2007, 04:00:34 PM
Quote from: MrAngryFace on March 04, 2007, 03:46:30 PM
Im waiting for the part of the story where this is wal-marts fault. Bad burns happen, and are shipped to a great many stores. I have no great love for walmart but come on...
:(
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: Shuri on March 04, 2007, 04:29:58 PM
I believe this was a stealth 'haY GUYS MY OPINIONS ON 30 YEARS MOVIES ARE FRESH AND WORTHY OF A THREAD' post.

Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 04, 2007, 04:30:37 PM
I WAS FOOLED! Bravo PD!
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: AdmiralViscen on March 04, 2007, 04:58:26 PM
My copy of Indy is faulty too.
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: Mondain on March 04, 2007, 06:04:01 PM
maybe it's just an incompatibility problem on your DVD player, these happen
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: Ecrofirt on March 04, 2007, 06:25:57 PM
Explain how this is Wal-Mart's fault. You bought a bad DVD. Wal-Mart didn't slip some shitty software onto the disc.

Furthermore, a ton of DVDs try to install some shitty InterActual player when you go to watch them on a PC. Just cancel the installation and open them up with whatever player you've got on your machine.
Title: Re: I have learned from my mistake now: DON'T buy DVDs from Walmart
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 04, 2007, 06:26:15 PM
Quote from: Mondain on March 04, 2007, 06:04:01 PM
maybe it's just an incompatibility problem on your DVD player, these happen

The other two movies work though. Also I just watched a lot of the special features (amazing stuff) and they worked fine.

Quote from: AdmiralViscen
My copy of Indy is faulty too.

Are you having similar problems, like with playing them on the computer?