I think the Samsung repair guy is tricking me....

[Kban]

I live in South America and got a Samsung DVD s223 for Christmas. I dont see this player in the DVD list this site has but i've seen s222 and s224 so Im guessing the s223 is like the s222 but made for Latin America.

Ok so I went and bought some VCD's from this guy and when I tried to play all of them in my DVD player the video and sound would start to studder after a min of playtime. The only way to fix this was if I pressed stop and play or FF and play. After that it would be ok until another minutes passed and the problem would come back. I called samsung and they sent a guy to check out the DVD. He opened it and switched a chip inside twice but I would still get the same problem. Finally he just told me that it was the "quality" of the VCD that caused the prob. I beleived him because before he came I burned some VCD's and they would work without any probs. He left and later that day I went over to my friends house to try the "bad quality" VCD's in his Panasonic player. They worked perfectly...

The next day I called them again and they came and took my DVD player. The guy told me that he would try to do whatever he could to fix it. A week later Samsung called and told me that they were gonna give me a new player becuase my old one was broken or something. So the same guy came, installed it and we tested the VCD. Worked perfectly! but after he left I tried to FF and RW the VCD but the player wouldn't let me do it... it would just show that little icon that appears when a function is not available.

So... whats wrong? why did he switch those chips insde the player in the first place? Why wont it FF or RW the VCD's i bought from that guy, but will work perfectly with the ones I make?

[vitualis]

If it can FFW and REW with VCDs YOU make, then it means that the player does support this (as most do).

As for the other VCDs, it is possible that they've been authored in such a way that your player can't FFW and REW. For example, I believe that some DVD players can't FFW and REW if the VCD is VCD1.1.

Regards.