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I recently purchased the following 2 Tartan DVDs:

HAPPINESS oF THE KATAKURIS
BATTLE ROYALE NTSC version

and have problems with both freezing on all three of my players at certain points.

HAPPINESS freezes for a while at the start of Chapter 3, and BATTLE at 11 minutes into the film. Both freezes unlock after a few seconds (unless I`m playing them on the DVD-ROM, where they lock it up sometimes).

Having 2 different disks with the same probelm has made me wonder if this isn`t coincidence, but a probelm with these DVDs as a whole. Given the poor authoring quality of a great many Tartan titles, I thought they all might be the same.

So does anybody else expereicne the same probelms with these DVDs?

I used:
SAMSUNG DVD-1E
ECLIPSE DVD-695
CREATIVE LABS DXR2

...All with the same results, so I assume it`s not compatibility issues.

FAQ
Sorry - too tired to type,,,, :(

SN