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In Reply to: 'Swing Live' DVD-A problem posted by Joe R. on June 23, 2004 at 08:48:16:
I have also experienced a problem with the 'Swing Live' DVD-A disk. My Panasonic XP-50 will not play the disk at all. I never get a menu, and the counter will pause at 00:07 for a few seconds, then rapidly increment to 00:12, then lock up solid. I cannot eject the disk or get any response from the player. No sound at all. I have to power cycle the player to eject the disk. Believing I had a defective disk, I called Chesky, and they sent me another disk Priority Mail. This disk wouldn't play either, so there must be some incompatibility between my XP-50 and this particular disk. I have successfully played the disk in two other players without any problems. My XP-50 firmware is version 302.
Follow Ups:
After reading your post, I tried changing the group when the player first began to read the disk, and after about 20 minutes of trying to outsmart the player, one of the tracks began playing. Cool! I have never used the group button on my remote, so I Google'd it and found a thread that mentioned something about the DVD Video mode, and I recalled that I had fiddled with all the settings, not to mention upgrading the firmware that set it all back to factory defaults. Anyway, once I turned the DVD Video mode on in the DVD setup menu, it worked!! Previously, I couldn't even see the menu, or any video ouptut for that matter. You might want to give it a try. Good luck. Tom
Looks like my last post was premature. I'm still having problems. I can get it to play, but I have to fiddle with the group, audio, and track buttons and get lucky to get it to play. Perhaps this disk is authored slightly differently than most disks and it's incompatible with my XP-50. I guess it's time to upgrade my DVD-A player.
This was the very first DVD-A disk I bought, and I've never been able to play it on my Marantz DV8400. The same album is available on SACD though, so maybe you could get Chesky to swap.
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