DVD will only play on certain players ???

[Old Geezer]

I recently bought Luciano Ercoli's Death Box Set containing Death Walks on High Heels and Death Walks at Midnight. The latter plays perfectly on everything I've tried. However, the former will play about 3/4 through on my Sony BDP-S570 before it freezes - skips to the very end. It does the same thing on my LG BD550 multi-region player. I have an older Sony BDP-350 in my bedroom that will play the movie straight through with no problem. I also dug an old Panasonic DVD player out of my closet and it too plays the movie with no problem.
What would cause this problem where only certain players will play a movie? I did examine the DVD itself and I can see no scratches or marks of any kind on the disc.

[David M]

It's rare, but happens. Some multiplexing engines and/or authoring applications and/or video encoders can sometimes trip up a player which implements the DVD spec a very precise, or perhaps even wrong way.

[Old Geezer]

Thanks for your reply. I just finished a Google search of the problem and it pointed me to a 2 year old question on this forum that asked basically the same question. Seems this problem does occasionally pop up. Glad I can watch the movie - even if I have to drag out an older player to do it. This box set is hard to get and expensive too, but I'm great fan of the older Italian giallo movies.