Page 1 of The Art Of War (with my Wharfedale 750S)

Hi

Just purchased a Region 1 copy of “THE ART OF WAR” – starring Wesley Snipes.

Played it on my Wharfedale 750S and it played perfectly until it froze near the end of chapter 9.

I then fiddled about with the remote and the disc and I managed to get it working (and saw the rest of the film),
but I haven’t a clue how I got it too play and every time the disc is re-inserted into the player the same thing happens.

If I try to select a chapter above chapter 9 from the scene selection menu it freezes.

Further investigation of the disc shows that although this is suppose to be a Region 1 disc, I reset my player to factory default and inserted the disc and guess what? It played !!!

I find this strange as it should not play on a Region 2 player. Should it ?

I was also curious about the sleeve of the DVD box, on all the covers I have seen advertising this film, the front cover had a black background and I think it is released by Warner Home Video, but the disc I got has a white background and is released by Columbia Tristar Home Video and has no region classification symbol on the cove or the disc, anybody know why ?

Has anybody got a clue to what’s going on ??

or is it just my player having bother with the second half of the disc.

I would appreciate any help on this matter as it’s driving me NUTS !!!

This disc has problems with quite a few players. It wouldn`t play at all on my multi region Toshiba SD-100e, but played OK on my Samsung sd612s DVD-ROM drive . I sent it back to play247.com, and they refunded my money due to the fact that they had had loads of returns due to disc faults.

exactly the same problem after no9. will try region2 setting otherwise back to play247. cheers for info