Page 1 of Proline 1000 players, won`t load films I like!

Anyone know why Proline 1000 is so twitchy about certain films. It won`t load `X Men` , or extra features section of `Young Frankenstein`, and refuses to even show the main menu of Gladiator`s special features disc.Bloody annoying. Can it be fixed, or does upgrading sort out all the wobbles (including Matrix)?

Sorry to hear that you encountered the same problems as me with this player. After 7-months of use, I gave up at Xmas and bought a Sony 725. I gave the Proline to my kids, but it won`t even play half their discs.

Where should I start? It won`t play Gladiator (R2), Saving Private Ryan (R1), Toy Story 1 & 2 (R1), Dinosaur (R1), X-Men (R1), The Abyss (R1), Independence Day (R1), Terminator 2 (R1), End Of Days (R2), Drive (R2), MI:2 (R2)......

Basically it`s a piece of crap! If you can afford it, I`d recommend ditching it and replacing with a quality player.

By the way, Comet were terrible in respect of support. All I got was "we are not aware of any problems", despite showing them the bloody thing going wrong in the shop and then showing the same problems on their in-store demo! Never again !

Is it really that bad?

Mine has played everything I have ever thrown at it, apart from the second disc of Gladiator. I have had quite a few discs aswell.

Hmm you have got me worried now.

I`m afraid mine was. I also checked all of the R2 movies that I mentioned on other units in Comet and they all suffered the same problems. I ended up just writing it off as a bad mistake on my part.

I have owned one since July 2000, and it has played all of my discs (17 in all). It DID play M:i-2 (R2) and GLADIATOR (R2). So there.

Xenon,

I`m pleased to hear you haven`t had any problems. Hope you don`t get any in the future. However, I did ! This was with a player purchased in May 2000 and it was an upgraded version (the previous one would not play The Matrix). I`m not alone in encountering the problems, judging by the bug reports at http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk and the fact that I tried a number of the R2 DVD`s on other machines at my local Comet superstore. Feel free to check out the DVD Times site if you don`t believe me.