Weird DVD behavior

[essentialsaltes]

Got a Netflix DVD of Fantastic Planet. Popped it in the DVD player, and it behaved a little weird. The warning screen came up, and then while that was still showing, there was a wooshy-tingly noise, as would accompany a distributor/studio logo. The animated menu showed up, but when I hit play, or selected a chapter, the video was black, but the audio played more or less normally (I could hear a few occasional stutters).

Stuffed it in the PS3 and it played perfectly normally (there *was* a distributor logo that went with the whoosh).

Is my DVD player dying? Exerting its taste in film? Demanding a dose of psychedelic drugs before showing the film? Rejecting some alien DVD codec?

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[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

It was definitely a fairly scratched disc, but no worse than others that have successfully played (and with Netflix, I see a lot of pretty thrashed discs -- either the postal service or the average Netflix user is not very kind to them). Of course, with data, it depends a lot on *which* data gets damaged. Usually, with a badly scratched disc, the movie will play fine until a crucial scene in act 3, and then the player will start to choke on it. But this behavior seemed really odd.