"The Chaser". Why won't this play?

[chas speed]

I was at a pawn shop in the U.S. and they were selling 5 Blu-rays for 10 bucks and I did a blind buy on a French Blu-ray of a Korean film called "The Chaser". I have a region free player and I wasn't worried about it not playing, but when I put it in my machine it just says something like BD and when I click that I get access to some files, but I still have no idea how to play it. This has never happened to me before. It doesn't really seem defective, but I don't know how to get it to work. I do not have my machine hooked up to the internet.

[benricci]

Originally Posted by chas speed

I was at a pawn shop in the U.S. and they were selling 5 Blu-rays for 10 bucks and I did a blind buy on a French Blu-ray of a Korean film called "The Chaser". I have a region free player and I wasn't worried about it not playing, but when I put it in my machine it just says something like BD and when I click that I get access to some files, but I still have no idea how to play it. This has never happened to me before. It doesn't really seem defective, but I don't know how to get it to work. I do not have my machine hooked up to the internet.

Your player or TV cannot handle 50 Hz content and this disc is 1080i/50. Sorry.

[benricci]

Originally Posted by chas speed

I was at a pawn shop in the U.S. and they were selling 5 Blu-rays for 10 bucks and I did a blind buy on a French Blu-ray of a Korean film called "The Chaser". I have a region free player and I wasn't worried about it not playing, but when I put it in my machine it just says something like BD and when I click that I get access to some files, but I still have no idea how to play it. This has never happened to me before. It doesn't really seem defective, but I don't know how to get it to work. I do not have my machine hooked up to the internet.

Your player or TV cannot handle 50 Hz content and this disc is 1080/50i. Sorry.

[chas speed]

Originally Posted by benricci

Your player or TV cannot handle 50 Hz content and this disc is 1080/50i. Sorry.

I'm not tech savvy enough to figure that out, but thanks. I used to have a Starship Trooper Blu-ray that wouldn't work until I put in a memory stick in the player, but this seems different. I can't imagine why this would be the only Blu-ray I would have this problem with. I hope nobody makes anymore Blu-rays like this in the future.

[David M]

I can't imagine why this would be the only Blu-ray I would have this problem with.

1080/50i content on BD is quite rare - that's why.

[tenia]

You might want to get access to an other Region B compatible player and test the disc in it.

One of our French main BD pressing plant (QOL) had a huge resin issue and many of their discs get unplayable after some years (sometimes even some months). Gaumont, M6, TF1 and Wild Side discs are notably concerned, and The Chaser is from Wild Side, so it could be it.

Other pressing plants had similar issues, but in much smaller amount so only a handful of their discs are concerned (for instance, Silent Hill is one of these).

[chas speed]

Originally Posted by tenia

You might want to get access to an other Region B compatible player and test the disc in it.

One of our French main BD pressing plant (QOL) had a huge resin issue and many of their discs get unplayable after some years (sometimes even some months). Gaumont, M6, TF1 and Wild Side discs are notably concerned, and The Chaser is from Wild Side, so it could be it.

Other pressing plants had similar issues, but in much smaller amount so only a handful of their discs are concerned (for instance, Silent Hill is one of these).

I'm afraid I only have one Region B player. I think I will avoid French Blu-rays in the future. Germany is my favorite and cheapest place to buy Blu-rays anyway.

[benricci]

Originally Posted by chas speed

I'm afraid I only have one Region B player. I think I will avoid French Blu-rays in the future. Germany is my favorite and cheapest place to buy Blu-rays anyway.

Again, the issue is that this particular disc is encoded 1080/50i, which is not common at all. You do not need to avoid every disc from France. That's ridiculous.

A lot of US gear can't handle 50 Hz content. The good news is most discs aren't encoded this way.

[malcy30]

Originally Posted by benricci

Again, the issue is that this particular disc is encoded 1080/50i, which is not common at all. You do not need to avoid every disc from France. That's ridiculous.

A lot of US gear can't handle 50 Hz content. The good news is most discs aren't encoded this way.

1080/50i content is common in Europe as it's our TV format here. A lot of TV on BD from the likes of the BBC is released in this format as it maintains the right speed of original broadcast.

The issue you have in US is most hardware manufacturers both TV and of BD players don't want to support it (it's in the kit as Panasonic, Sony etc make global kit it's just disabled on models sold in US) as a deterrent to discourage importing of European content.

[chas speed]

Originally Posted by malcy30

1080/50i content is common in Europe as it's our TV format here. A lot of TV on BD from the likes of the BBC is released in this format as it maintains the right speed of original broadcast.

The issue you have in US is most hardware manufacturers both TV and of BD players don't want to support it (it's in the kit as Panasonic, Sony etc make global kit it's just disabled on models sold in US) as a deterrent to discourage importing of European content.

I do have a million European Blu-rays and DVD's and it has never happened before. Anyway, I only paid 2 bucks for it and I'm guessing it won't happen again.

[puffymc]

Playback wouldn't start on my EU PS4, due to an error code which I can't remember now. Then I got it working by turning Video Playback Settings> Output at 1080p/24Hz to OFF.

Unfortunately, it's unplayable after 00:35:00. Must be the pressing plant issue described above.