I watch DS9 and Next Gen over and over And over, my DS9 episodes, have always skipped and had skips and stops, but I was trying to watch season 5 last night (possibly it's season 6) But anyway, when I put the disc in it brings up a blue and yellow screen that says: Video TS Audio TS If I hit my remote buttons I can get it to open up like its going to play the video, But then when the main video opens with the Cardassian screen and the Space station, there is nothing highlighted, so it won't play the episodes. I know, I can do net flicks etc. but I'm not sure I want to go that route. I'll probably just try to buy a new season 5 But does anyone else have So many issues with the DVD's?
I can tell you that there were a lot of bootleg DS9 DVD sets out. I know because I got one (unintentionally) and it looked pretty convincing as a 'real' product, but the discs were hard to read for my players. Eventually I tracked down some web posts that talked about the bootlegs and realized my set was one of them. If it's not a bootleg set, then you simply got some bad discs. This is pretty rare in my experience (and I have a lot of DVDs), but it does happen. Have you tried playing them on a different player?
Funny, every time I have bought a season of DS9 on DVD, at least one disc has playback issues on an episode or two. So I just watch the show on Netflix. Kor
Hmm. Sounds like you got a lemon or a bootleg. I bought the new DS9 DVD set and I've watched 5 seasons and haven't had any issues. You might need to just return it and get another one.
Have the whole show on DVD. Never had any issues with the playback. There was some problem with the inner rings on the discs easily breaking apart, but I put all of the discs in a separate folder and eliminated the problem.
I ripped all the episodes from my DVDs to a hard drive as MKV files. Much easier to access. Kept my DVDs of course. Many modern TVs and DVD players can display MKV video from a connected USB drive.
I bought the re-release set last year, and all those seem to be fine. Although I still watch Star Trek primarily on Netflex or Hulu for some reason.
It looks like a real set. It's in a box with sons fancy sort of clear covers with art work on them. There is one cover that folds out like tri-fold and a sort of cover that when that part is closed. I tried playing them on an older player and they worked on that one. On the down side that one is hooked up to a teeny little TV. But still it seems odd that my Next Gen all play fine and DS9 is a hodgepodge.
Is there a UPC on the box? Bootlegs usually don't reproduce the official UPC. Type the # into Google and see what comes up. Any problems with any other discs?
I have had and still has the same problems with the DS9 discs and also the TNG discs. My problems with those discs are accurately described in this thread so anyone interested can read here: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/what-the-is-wrong-with-my-ds9-dvd-s.262327/ After haggling with this for over a year with no reply from Paramount and with the shop I bought those discs from constantly blaming Paramount, I swallowed my pride and bought the whole DS9 series in a box. Since I'd already watched seasons 1, 2 and 3, I only rewatched the episodes in those seasons which I'd had problems with before. No problems until I got to the season 4 episode "Broken Link" when the DVD started to malfunction at the end of the episode. There were also some problems with "Apocalypse Rising" in season 5. OK, I could watch the episodes but there were some sluggish parts. It will be interestin to see how the rest of the series turns out. Note that I've never watched those episodes on those discs before and I've bought the discs from a reliable dealer. Anyway, I've started to have the same problems with some TNG episodes as well and it was just three yerars since I bought the whole TNG series ina a DVD box. Meanwhile, the seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Voyager which I bought in 2006 still works fine! And I watched those episodes maaaaaany times! My guess is that the DVD:s shipped to Europe after 2006 are downright crap. Either they don't work from the start or gets corrupted after one or two views. Shame on you Paramount!
That's what my bootleg ones looked like, too. I'll track down what the telltale differences are and post later, but at least it's working on the older player, so they may not be bootlegs.
Right now on my one DVD player it brings up as above, the blue and yellow screen like an old excel spreadsheet with only the two entries and nothing will play from there, but they are working on my older DVD player