DVD glitch?

[suarezguy]

My DVD has a green edge/bar on the left side of the screen during "The Gift," is that common or a rare defect?

 

[Melakon]

I got a used copy of Season 4 earlier this month, but haven't noticed anything unusual. Is it all through the episode?

My copy is pretty old, with a 2004 copyright date on it.

 

[suarezguy]

^Yeah, it was throughout.

 

[erastus25]

Is it a legit copy? Or an "Asian" counterfeit from Ebay?

 

[BillJ]

Watching on a 16:9 screen? It may be something that made it in but was never meant to be seen on a 4:3 screen.

 

[Tosk]

The green line is on the legit copy presumably due to it being overlooked in the overscan area. (Which is why you won't typically see it on a TV, only on a computer or TV with no overscan at all. Also, it's only on the NTSC version. The PAL release doesn't have the problem.

 

[suarezguy]

Yeah, it was legit and it only appeared on a computer rather than a television. Still annoying for the computer and if it was on all the (U.S.) copies rather than a rare defect.

 

[Melakon]

Unfortunately the drive on this machine is too slow for me to check my copy.

 

[tomswift2002]

Yeah, it was legit and it only appeared on a computer rather than a television. Still annoying for the computer and if it was on all the (U.S.) copies rather than a rare defect.

That's the sort of thing that TV's leave off. I've watched a lot of 80's/90's shows on DVD (and even older shows that were done on film, but the DVD company used old Umatic masters for the DVD's, I've even noticed TNG's DVD's having the same issue, on computer the frame is 1.37:1, but the image only fills a 1.33:1 area), and I've even transferred stuff that I shot on SVHS/Mini DV and edited on SVHS back in my college days using a linear editing suite. The original raw footage transfers in 1.37:1 (for both SVHS and Mini DV), while the final SVHS masters transfers in 1.33:1, so on a computer screen there is always a black bar from the linear edit. So when I compare the shots I can see more of the image in the original raw footage. As for the Voyager episode, I would assume it is the same problem, but due to Voyager being edited on digital D2, instead of analog video, the green is most likely a digital artifact of a linear edit.

 

[Catarina]

Same episode on my DVDs and another episode but it isn't springing to mind. I watch mine on a small TV/computer flat screen combo. That might be the issue.