Page 1 of Moulin Rouge Vs Samsung

Is anybody else having major problems getting Moulin Rouge to play on their Samsung 709`s? I`ve tried the multi region hack & region 1 hack but it starts to break up around track 14 and stops completely by track 20. I`ve tried two copies of the film (both R1) but the problem is the same. Any advice?

The samsung 511 which i use is simailar to your 709. I have played many R1 and NTSC discs with no problems, however, just yesterday i tried to play Moulin Rouge (R1 NTSC). I experienced for the first hour slight pauses, slight pixelation etc and as you say by about chapter 20 in my case it was unwatchable. The disc has played fine on a friends dvd today and was in pristine condition straight from CDWOW and i personally suspect that it has problems playing the first layer initially and when it starts the second layer it just dies. I suspect that technology has just caught up with these machines as the MR disc probably, from the look of the video and soundtrack, is probably the state of dvd media art as it stands today. I also have read that the samsung 511 cannot hack NTSC-NTSC output and outputs in pal60 which may be the problem. I hope someone can help as it will obviously be of interest to me too.

I have played the disc on my hacked 709 and works ok. The sound was a bit weird on the very first song but I think that is more to do with the disc than the player. Worked fine on mine.