Robocop Trilogy Disc 1 fails to play in Toshiba 100E

[GAmbrose]

Just recieved the Robocop trilogy courtesy of Ringo's today, went to watch Robocop in my Toshiba 100E (From Techtronics with multi-region mod) and it gives me a Disc Error. I've got 150 DVD's and i've never ever had a problem with anything else.

It works fine in my Parents Region 2 Toshiba 110

Did MGM put RCE on this Disc? I thought only a few Region 1 Discs had Region code enhancement.....anyone else got a 100E? Does it work ok on yours?

Regards
Gary A

[Henry]

Apparently some MGM discs have problems on certain Toshiba (and other) players. I wasn't aware of this until I bought an R4 copy of Heaven's Gate which won't play at all on my Toshiba SD100 (I keep getting the disc error message) but plays fine on a Samsung and Panasonic. When I emailed the retailer he said some MGM discs just won't play on certain players.

[GAmbrose]

Interesting.

Not very happy about it though. Silence of the Lambs, The Terminator, Platoon and the Bond films all work fine aswell (Those being MGM DVD's)

Gary A

[mayhemmaster]

The thing is some lower end machines cannot cope with the branching in some of the newer discs. My Samsung blew up! Got a Sony now (cost £400.00) but the saying 'you gets what ya pays for' is sometimes unfortunately true (usually in a very expensive way :0(

[GAmbrose]

The Toshiba 100E, although a budget player is rated VERY highly on it's Audio and Visual quality though.

I guess the branching could be the cause of the problem, unlike Abyss, Terminator 2 etc, it isn't seemless.

Gary A

[Alanok]

Works fine on my Tosh 210E player.

[RoboCop4]

Originally posted by Henry
Apparently some MGM discs have problems on certain Toshiba (and other) players. ..... When I emailed the retailer he said some MGM discs just won't play on certain players.

That's interesting. One of the few - if not only - discs that I have had trouble with on my Wharfedale is the 'Magnificent Seven SE', in which the doscumentary breaks up and refuses to play in chapter 2. When I posted a question about it here, a few other people said that they had experienced the same thing - on a variety of players.

[Gozer]

Originally posted by RoboCop4


That's interesting. One of the few - if not only - discs that I have had trouble with on my Wharfedale is the 'Magnificent Seven SE', in which the doscumentary breaks up and refuses to play in chapter 2. When I posted a question about it here, a few other people said that they had experienced the same thing - on a variety of players.

I get the pixellation problems alot on some MGM discs, yet when I try them on me mates PS2 or my PC they play 100% fine.

[Harsin]

So is there any way of curing the Toshiba SD100-E Robocop problem? Unfortunately the Toshiba is my only player and Robocop is one of my favourite films. Any help would be appreciated.

[Dale Laywood]

Originally posted by Harsin
So is there any way of curing the Toshiba SD100-E Robocop problem? Unfortunately the Toshiba is my only player and Robocop is one of my favourite films. Any help would be appreciated.


Just bought Robocop & experienced the same problem on my Tosh`.
However, I eventually got it to play by doing the following:

When it displays check disc/disc error open & close the disc draw to cancel the error message.As soon as the draw closes press the play button several times & it should work........ it did for me anyway.(use the button on the player,not the remote)Dont know if it will work again as Ive left it running so that I can watch it.
Hope it works for you :D


Update..... had to stop the film early as the wife thought it was a bit to violent for the little one. Tried to reload it & had to mess about for ages but it eventually worked. This time I just kept opening & closing the draw until it loaded.So there does`nt seem to be a particular sequence to get it to load....... just purservere!

[Panavision]

Try selecting a Title and chapter?