Film fans were shortchanged with cheaper, non-anamorphic transfers, and it took a lot of pushback before things changed.
Those early days of DVD brought with it some tremendous behind the scenes features, that dug into the movies concerned. Thankfully, that nonsense is long gone…. Over 20 years on, some of these problems still exist. But thankfully, to nowhere near the degree they once did. On the flip side, we also had physical shops we could go in and browse through a large range of the things. Swings and roundabouts….
Thank you for visiting! Follow Film Stories on Twitter here , and on Facebook here. See one of our live shows, details here. Toggle navigation. The things that early adopters of the DVD format had to put up with. If you were one of those people there in the back end of the 90s, importing discs from across the channel and punching codes into players — The flipper disc The DVDs that you buy today tend to be DVD9 discs.
These were full price discs, with no extras too. Fun times. Warner Bros bowed to market demands in , and finally started phasing said cases out. And lots of us got on first name terms with our local post offices… Format wars As with any emerging format, there was competition on the horizon. If you're using an image for the DVD menu background, this alert can appear if you moved the file from its original location.
Move the file back to where it was located when you first added it to your project, then share to DVD again. If you can't remember where the file was originally located, re-add it as the menu background image.
This can block your Mac from erasing the existing data on the disc before burning the new project onto it. You might also see an alert stating that the disc is in use. Disk images are also useful for archiving projects as they appear on disc, and if you need to burn multiple disc copies of a project.
If you are using rewritable discs, be aware that some rewritable discs that have been written to repeatedly may have playback issues in some DVD or Blu-ray players.
Transcoding might fail when using the the built-in "Create Blu-ray" destination with Change the frame rate, then try transcoding again. If an alert appears while sharing to DVD or Blu-ray disc If you're using an external optical drive to burn DVD and Blu-ray discs, you might encounter an alert and your disc might not be successfully burned.
When this happens, try the following: Shut down your Mac and disconnect all the USB cables connecting the optical drive to your Mac. Reconnect the cables, turn your Mac back on, and try burning the disc again.
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Even Netflix, which started in the DVD business, still makes money renting discs to customers. Loading Something is loading. But good quality cleaning discs can prove effective too, so give it a shot. It can be very annoying when the drive won't eject your discespecially when your car CD player won't eject.
If pushing the eject button does nothing or you can hear that the drive is jammed, there are a couple of ways to fix the problem. Many disc drives, including car CD players or the drives on games consoles, have a small pinhole that acts as an emergency eject.
First, turn your system off. Then unfold a paperclip and gently push it into the hole. You may need to repeat this a few times for the mechanism to catch. The drive bay should eject enough for you to grab it with your fingernails. Slowly pull the drive out, but don't force it and risk physically damaging the drive. It might not be the drive that has the problem. Discs become scratched fairly easily and this can cause a lot of reading problems on the drive.
The quickest way to check is:. Once you have confirmed the disc is scratched you can try a few things to fix the problem. One method is to use a wet or dry cloth to clean the disc. Use circular motions to clean it, or wipe from out-to-inside or inside-to-out. Never wipe in the direction around the tracks, as this can cause track skippage and actually make the problem worse.
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