DVD Movie will not play on Harmon/Kardon DVD

[adkron]

Please forgive the lenght of this post.

I purchased Steig Larson’s Trilogy, “The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest," from Amazon.com.

Initial request below:

None of the disks will play the movie. The disks start; show the previews of other movies but when the movie starts it won't play. No matter what button I hit on my remote an error message appears stating, "operation not possible." I have a Sony DVD Model No. DVP-NC800H, a Harmon Kardon Receiver Model AVR 40, and a Vizio vw32l-1.5A-60/50Hz TV. I live in upper New York State. Is there a way I can get these movies to run on my components? I have read the trilogy and would love to see these movie

I sent the below letter about my order. Amazon responded by sending me another Trilogy. It does the same thing as the first one. I asked them not to send me another. Instead why not answer my question, i.e. how do I get the movies to play on my DVD?

Amazon has not responded.

Does anyone know what I must do to get them to play on my DVD. They do play on my MacBook Pro but not my Son DVD.

Thanks,

adkron

Thanks,

Ron


Thanks,
Ron

[hech54]

Look on the back of the box sets....small print....do you see the letters/words NTSC or PAL ?

[october262]

have you checked the parental control option?? if not try changing that

[neomaine]

You live in upper New York St? I'm leaning towards that being the problem. Try moving to Vermont. DVD compatibility is much better there.

[julitomg]

Look on the back of the box sets....small print....do you see the letters/words NTSC or PAL ?

He says the disc plays movie previews. If the DVD was PAL, wouldn´t the whole disc be PAL?, where would be the logic of releasing a commercially pressed DVD with mixed standards?

[rbivi11572]

Do your movies go to the menu screen? If they do, see if they have a scene selection. If they do, try selecting the first scene.

[adkron]

Thanks for all the replies and help.

There are no NTSC orPAL references on the box or DVD cases.
I love VT but am a life long New Yorker with both parents being born in The City (Brooklyn and The Bronx) and before moving to upper NY State I worked in the big Apple.
The movies do not go to the screen on my Sony DVD but I can get a screen selection on my Apple MacPro Book and can run them there.
I haven't checked the parental control option, I don't know how to do so and could use some help here.
I am on my way to check out thr recommended web sites for help, i.e. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...teamnum=166011 and http://folding.stanford.edu/, I'll get back to you on the results.

Again thanks to all, when I get it fixed I'll let you know.

adkron