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Rambo Stallone · 07-20-2009, 01:06 PM

I read online Season 4 is released only on amazon but they on DVD + or minus R format. This is very poor practice everyone knows DVD + or minus R will not play well on most DVD Player. There might be times that it reads o.k but their will be a lot of freezing problems on the later disc and playing it is like the lottery on your player.

This is a common fact just like buying those crap produced garbage DVD for $2 like in Indonesia they sell.

tazz765 · 07-24-2009, 02:02 AM

Probably because Season Three sold so poorly that they made deal with Amazon to release it through them. I have Season Four and have had no problem playing the episodes. If there was a choice between not completing the series or having the remaining two season on DVD-R I'd go with the DVD-R discs.

Schmoopie · 07-24-2009, 02:34 AM

I can't understand why CD and DVD companies can't figure out a way to make them so that they'll play in ANY player. Greedy for money, I guess. What a shame.

Hoggle · 08-02-2009, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Rambo Stallone

... everyone knows DVD + or minus R will not play well on most DVD Player. There might be times that it reads o.k but their will be a lot of freezing problems on the later disc and playing it is like the lottery on your player.

According to http://www.videohelp.com/dvd 89% of DVD players can play DVD+R, and 93% DVD-R. I have never personally come across a DVD player that would not play DVD-R.

Bad media has been the only problem I have experienced with writable DVDs, and in the early days, I was seeing disks with visible defects and high failure rates. In recent years however, even the cheapest media has been very reliable. I can think of only one instance recently, where a disk failed a verification after being written.

If you're concerned, feel free to post an MD5 of the files on your disk for comparison (I haven't got mine yet).

07-20-2009, 01:06 PM	#1
Rambo Stallone Member Frequent Poster Join Date: May 11, 2005 Location: OZ Posts: 210	Why is this being released on poor quality discs I read online Season 4 is released only on amazon but they on DVD + or minus R format. This is very poor practice everyone knows DVD + or minus R will not play well on most DVD Player. There might be times that it reads o.k but their will be a lot of freezing problems on the later disc and playing it is like the lottery on your player. This is a common fact just like buying those crap produced garbage DVD for $2 like in Indonesia they sell.

07-24-2009, 02:34 AM	#3
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07-24-2009, 02:02 AM	#2
tazz765 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 28, 2004 Posts: 175	Probably because Season Three sold so poorly that they made deal with Amazon to release it through them. I have Season Four and have had no problem playing the episodes. If there was a choice between not completing the series or having the remaining two season on DVD-R I'd go with the DVD-R discs.