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dark and stormy knight
Can’t remember when I got my first DVD player, 15 years ago or so. Watched a fair amount of digital movies since with very few difficulties but never any like this. The movie was Hacksaw Ridge. I checked it out from the library. Usually never have too much trouble with library copies. Sometimes they‘ll get stuck and won’t play any further unless you skip to the next chapter or fast forward a little. But this was different. Suddenly out of nowhere this appears:
Naturally the first thing that pops into my mind is WTF!!! So I play around a little, skipping forward and backward, jump chapters, pause and play. I was actually able to get rid of the message and retrieve the sound but the black digital silencer always came back a minute or two later. And just want was this mysterious Message Code 3?
Desperate, I finally roused myself to grab my iPad and went to the website where I found this:
Well, the 30 second shtick didn’t help any and how am I supposed to know where the “professionally produced material” begins and where it ends? And what in the world is a “different optical disc” and where can I get one post haste at 8 o’clock in the morning? This is crazy. Hacksaw Ridge was really getting interesting and now to finish it I have to wrestle with this high tech roadblock. After monkeying around for several minutes I finally discovered that if I tap stop and wait several seconds, then tap play the movie resumes but without sound and if I stop it immediately for another few seconds it’ll continue to play this time with sound for the rest of the show. So why all the crap? If I can worm around this obstacle using dask technology why incorporate the safety device in the first place? Is this a pirated copy? Sure looks like the real deal though that’s no insurance by any means. Was the library duped? Possibly. Anyone ever come across this before?
Naturally the first thing that pops into my mind is WTF!!! So I play around a little, skipping forward and backward, jump chapters, pause and play. I was actually able to get rid of the message and retrieve the sound but the black digital silencer always came back a minute or two later. And just want was this mysterious Message Code 3?
Desperate, I finally roused myself to grab my iPad and went to the website where I found this:
Well, the 30 second shtick didn’t help any and how am I supposed to know where the “professionally produced material” begins and where it ends? And what in the world is a “different optical disc” and where can I get one post haste at 8 o’clock in the morning? This is crazy. Hacksaw Ridge was really getting interesting and now to finish it I have to wrestle with this high tech roadblock. After monkeying around for several minutes I finally discovered that if I tap stop and wait several seconds, then tap play the movie resumes but without sound and if I stop it immediately for another few seconds it’ll continue to play this time with sound for the rest of the show. So why all the crap? If I can worm around this obstacle using dask technology why incorporate the safety device in the first place? Is this a pirated copy? Sure looks like the real deal though that’s no insurance by any means. Was the library duped? Possibly. Anyone ever come across this before?
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