Three different decryption programs (AnyDVD being one of them) failed to help on this movie. The problem is in the same spot as Bid Dog Daddy O (VTS_01_4.VOB). The last time something like this happened to me I just waited a little while and things ended up working out. I have read all the info on bad batches and such and I don't think that is the problem. Let me explain:
I live on the west coast of the United States. I went through three disks on 30 Days of Night. They all stuck on the exact same spot while playing in either of my DVD players and in the same spot when I tried to make a backup copy of them. Due to copyright laws, once a movie (or CD, for that matter) is opened, it can not be exchanged for anything except another copy of the same title (which would be fine if I could get one that works right), so I have a store credit of sorts for now...
Did anybody notice which entertainment company this DVD is released by...hmm...coincidence?
I don't like to name names, but I don't think this a coincidence; nor do I think that it was simply a bad batch (unless we all are in the same area for purposes of distribution). I can't help but wonder if the encryptimaniacs are playing games and releasing different batches with different encryptions.
Does anybody remember Catch and Release? Same company (if I remember correctly), same confusion among people...some of us had no problems, others could barely even get the movie to play let alone make a backup copy. I waited until a few more updates of AnyDVD were released and I had no problems with it, but in the mean-time I read all the postings by people that had no problems (that were very confident in pointing out that those of us who were having problems didn't know what we were talking about).
I hate it when someone tells me there is nothing special about an encryption when three differnent copies stick in the exact same spot in two different DVD players, a four month old HP laptop running Vista Ultimate (32 bit), and a Desktop that was custom built running XP Professional (all with DVD drives manufactured by different companies...NEC, Sony, Sanyo, etc...)--it especially bugs me when a "bad disk" from over a year ago copied just fine when I tried to copy it with AnyDVD a few versions later.
If anybody figures out what this problem is, please post the solution. I suppose I could get a fourth copy, follow Webslinger's instructions, and send the exact error code information if nobody else gets around to if before I do. I was kind of hoping for an AnyDVD update to fix the problem...
I live on the west coast of the United States. I went through three disks on 30 Days of Night. They all stuck on the exact same spot while playing in either of my DVD players and in the same spot when I tried to make a backup copy of them. Due to copyright laws, once a movie (or CD, for that matter) is opened, it can not be exchanged for anything except another copy of the same title (which would be fine if I could get one that works right), so I have a store credit of sorts for now...
Did anybody notice which entertainment company this DVD is released by...hmm...coincidence?
I don't like to name names, but I don't think this a coincidence; nor do I think that it was simply a bad batch (unless we all are in the same area for purposes of distribution). I can't help but wonder if the encryptimaniacs are playing games and releasing different batches with different encryptions.
Does anybody remember Catch and Release? Same company (if I remember correctly), same confusion among people...some of us had no problems, others could barely even get the movie to play let alone make a backup copy. I waited until a few more updates of AnyDVD were released and I had no problems with it, but in the mean-time I read all the postings by people that had no problems (that were very confident in pointing out that those of us who were having problems didn't know what we were talking about).
I hate it when someone tells me there is nothing special about an encryption when three differnent copies stick in the exact same spot in two different DVD players, a four month old HP laptop running Vista Ultimate (32 bit), and a Desktop that was custom built running XP Professional (all with DVD drives manufactured by different companies...NEC, Sony, Sanyo, etc...)--it especially bugs me when a "bad disk" from over a year ago copied just fine when I tried to copy it with AnyDVD a few versions later.
If anybody figures out what this problem is, please post the solution. I suppose I could get a fourth copy, follow Webslinger's instructions, and send the exact error code information if nobody else gets around to if before I do. I was kind of hoping for an AnyDVD update to fix the problem...
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