...I got Star Wars 1,2,and 3 for Christmas. Wife and kids are out of town tonight so I was going to watch Episode 1, but when I try to play the disc, it says "This disc is not formatted to play in this region." I bought these at Circuit City myself, so I don't know why the disc would not play. Any thoughts?
It's unlikely CC sold a disc formatted for the wrong region. Unlikely, but possible. Look for any NTSC or PAL labeling on the package or disc itself. Take it back to CC and ask to play it in one of their machines.
It has NTSC with a 1 in the oval, so it is a region 1 disk. The other Star Wars disks work, so my first thought is that it's a bad disk, but why would it work in my kids' portable DVD player?
To make things worse, I stopped the movie about 1/3 through to get something to drink and when I came back it wouldn't play again. I gave up and hooked the kids' portable DVD player up to the TV and watched the rest, but had to use the TV speakers. I have to agree that after I went through all that trouble to watch the movie, it was very much a letdown. The only reason I got it was for the surround sound effects and I got robbed on that part too. At least the 2 and 3 will be in surround sound, but I don't imagine the movies will be any better.
Not to let the point of the thread drift too much, but you gotta love how "dumbed down" the last three incarnations of SW got. Don't get me wrong, the line between good and evil could not have been clearer in parts 4 -6, but 1 -3 really took it to another level. Both sides acted pretty much the same way, but what made one side "good" and the other side "evil" was only the theme music. It was nice of the Sith to call their power the "dark" side, or else, god only knows how hard it would have been to decide which side to root for...
Hey now I like the Talking Heads. I know this isn't on the thread subject but do they have any quality recorded CDs that will sound good on a higher end CD player?
Hey Clarence - welcome. I'm new here too, but I think you would get more responses to your question with a new thread. It's hard for me to imagine that a lot of people will look at a post about a Star Wars movie not playing and end up on a Talking Heads question. LOL I love some Talking Heads too, but I can't really comment on any great quality CDs. Good luck!
Mark - I was just kidding anyway wasn't trying to hijack your thread, sorry man. I was just making a reference off a previous post that used the term 'talking heads'.
