I recently received my Buffy Season 3 DVD from Amazon.com, and was joyously looking forward to many nights of watching it. Unfortunately, there was a glitch on at least one of the discs. On Disc 2, there was some kind of defect that caused the disc to skip over part of the “Homecoming” episode.
No big deal, I thought. Maybe just a random scratch. Sometimes it happens. So, I go to Amazon.com, print out the return label, and get the package ready to ship out. I ask them to send a replacement.
I get an email this morning reading as follows:
Has anyone else encountered this problem? I don’t mind getting a refund if I can replace the item elsewhere, but if there is a widespread problem with this disc set, I won’t be able to do that.
(On another note, I had a similar problem with the Buffy Season 1 box set, but a replacement took care of it.)
Just watched the Homecoming episode the other night. The disk seemed to work fine. That is the only episode I watched from that disk however, so while I cannot be sure… it seems that would be good news for you.
I’ve got a glitch like this in my Season 2 set, on the episode with John Ritter. “Ted”? Sucks big time. Nothing wrong (so far) with my season 3, though. I’m on disc 5 right now, so my fingers are crossed!
I didn’t get through the whole thing. The one glitch, which was basically a reproducible event, was enough. It skipped over the whole scene with Cordelia and Lyle Gorch.
I thought it might be my DVD player too, except that it was that one particular part of the disc. I would expect that if it was the player, the glitches would be more random, not focused on that particular moment on the disc.
alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer is reporting similar problems. It appears to be a packaging issue, where they just didn’t secure the discs properly in the package prior to shrinkwrapping.
Yuck. I had to get them by international mail order and it’s already on its way. I guess I’ll have to watch all of it as soon as it arrives to make sure it’s OK.
Seriously, is this caused by physical damage to the disks? Can you detect them by just looking at the disk?
Same here for my season 2 error. It was just the tiniest glitch, I think I lose about 2 seconds of the scene where they are playing miniature golf. I just use the fast forward and it eventually skips it. Still. :mad:
Production quality on this series has been pretty abysmal – I’m thinking in particular of a couple scenes from the Season 2 discs where it looks like someone decided to give the original film a good mudbath and loofah before transfering it to DVD.
Yep – also, the scene in What’s My Line where Buffy and Angel have just fought that dude on the ice rink. It’s particularly bad because the camera cuts between an over-Buffy’s-shoulder view of Angel and an over-Angel’s-shoulder view of Buffy and the quality of one is so much worse than the other it is impossible to see it as a single conversation, instead of what it really is, the stitching together of shots taken at different times.
Okay, I just started watching “Bad Girls” from Season 3 (Disk 4). I clicked on “Play” and I got the writer’s commentary audio overlapping the episode. Hmmm. Clicked on “Writer’s commentary” and it’s the same thing. Tried clicking to specific scenes. I still hear this guy’s voice.
Oh, and in my version Season 2 there’s a defect in the Frankenstein episode (Spare Parts? – the one where the brother is trying to rebuild a woman for his deceased brother, Darryl). It starts pixeling on me or something, where the little squares are out of whack.
