Send the disc directly to me, and we'll send you a new replacement copy.

Send me an email and I'll give you a shipping address.

triciadevereaux@aol.com

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Just an observation

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The First Run:
The first run suffered from considerable problems - complete lack of playability in some instances, disc noises, disruption of picture, stopping before the end of the movie, etc. Read these threads for better descriptions:
• Anyone else has problems with Flesh Hunter 2?
• please list good/bad playback with Flesh Hunter 2

When the situation became known to Evil Angel, it was handled excellently and the first run was cancelled and retailers mostly stopped carrying them: EVIL ANGEL disc problems

The Second Run:
A second run was produced and distributed for sale. The problems of the first run were corrected and I assume anyone who bought FH2 recently received a copy from the revised second run. If your copy does not suffer from the considerable problems that plagued the first run, it is probably from the revised second run.

Recent Issues:
Confusion is arising because of reported problems in the Jeanie Rivers scene. On my player, the scene degrades during chapters 32 & 33, losing synchronisation and stuttering. If I leave it alone, it eventually recovers. This problem seems to be related to a layer change in the DVD (which is probably difficult on-the-fly) and is apparently not related to the first run problems.

Check your Copy:
Check if you are experiencing problems with the DVD in any other scenes (some people have reported problems in the Jenna and Alexa scenes for instance), or the menus, picture quality, etc. If you are not experiencing such problems, then your copy is probably from the second batch and problems with the Jeanie Rivers scene are most likely unrelated to the first batch.

Replacing the DVD is therefore unlikely to make any difference.

It is possible that there are people with problematic first run discs out there, but I think there is a vast amount of confusion arising from the Jeanie Rivers scene on the second batch. The first time I watched my disc I didn't know whether I had a first or second run copy.

But since it plays fine in every other respect and I didn't experience any of the problems other people reported, I concluded that it is from the second run. Although there are slight problems with Jeanie's scene, I doubt replacing the DVD will change that.

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But I know that when I reviewed it, it didn't play in any of my players until I cleaned it and tried it in my DVD-ROM drive. It played.

I did a scan through of the DVD when I got the exchanged copy, no problems.

I have several other DVDs currently awaiting me "watching" them.

But my copy worked fine when I first got the exchanged copy, and I have no reason to doubt that that has changed.

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Unless it´s an Evil Angel movie, of course. In Tricia you can trust.

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Edited by - rieekan333 on Sep 19 2002

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I most certainly can not, just kidding.

I will "watch" that tonight and see if there are any problems, it will be on my Zenith, since my indestructable Philips is in another room, but I will report back.

It may be a while, 1) "watching" it may require lots of sticky situations and tissues. 2) I am going away on Friday afternoon, won't be back until Sunday night. 3) I will have to re"watch" the title, you know to make sure.

lol

But I will definitely look into it...

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For those wondering which batch they own;

It might be helpful to post any info you have regarding the original shipping date. For instance, in my case I purchased a copy of FH2 from a Tower records retailer that had a sticker with "0702" on it. This is most likely from the second batch/run since it's problem-free on my Panasonic and is long after the initial run (late-March, early April).

I had no idea this disc has been available since March, so more than likely there have been several production runs already. If more people post what date they purchased it (or what date it was shipped to the retailer-if possible) that might indicate whether or not there's a possible batch problem. Tricia and co. have been very helpful on this board to remedy the situation.

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Guess I got lucky for once! My copy played with NO problems. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but there it is.

My question though, for those that are having difficulties, is there any way to tell (from the cover for example) that what you are getting is the second run that has been corrected? Did they change the cover slick, or put a sticker on it, or anything?

DenverDon

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Just be glad to be the owner of a problem-free FH2 DVD. I know I am (not rubbing it in).

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Edited by - Asmodeus on Sep 20 2002

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If MidnightMax could report on whether or not he encounters problems with the copy that Tricia sends out, I think we'll have a definitive answer.

I'm still inclined to believe my copy is from the revised second run. It is problem-free except for Ch32&33 and even then it plays through the scene. I doubt replacing the DVD will change that and it's too much effort from Australia given how the problem isn't very bad at all.

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The copy I sent back also was breaking up in the same chapters you mentioned 33-34, around the 1:33:00-1:34:00 portion of the movie. There is a slight pause during the layer change, but this is not the problem, it's maybe half a minute later that the screen breaks up and freezes.
I'm awaiting word on whether the stores entire stock is like this. If this IS the second run of supposidly "good discs" how could they possibly release two separate runs of bad discs that both had problems, especially after the first batch.
Quality control should be priority #1 when it comes to dvds. It's not like the old days where you pop a tape in 30 vcrs and press record. A bad batch of discs can quite possibly put a small company out of business nowadays.
Porn companies should be a little more careful with what they release. I mean, somebody somewhere had to approve this and give it the okay, unless of course dvds are a strange animal in which let's say half a run of discs can turn out bad. Just wondering, as I don't know very much about the process of making and pressing these..

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I just checked two of our copies out. We (Adult DV-Depot) buy direct from Evil Angel. We never got any copies of the original pressing of Flesh Hunter 2 so we have only ever carried the second pressing discs.

Disc #1 played flawlessly, so I was confused as to how people were reporting faulty Flesh Hunter 2 DVDs.

However, Disc #2 started to break-up/pause/choppy at the end of 1:32 mark, and continued to do so until 1:34. This continued on and off until the end of the scene. Even the popshot was choppy.

The rest of the disc seems to play fine.

I've emailed Tricia about this so hopefully she can shed some light on this situation.

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If the image remains choppy all along, it´s a mastering problem.

Different players deal differently with faulty data.
Some just pixelate for some seconds and go back to normal once they pass thru the flawled part.
Some skip the faulty part and jump to the next scene, or to the un-faulty section of the disk.
And others just freeze.

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"We're investigating it on our end with the replicator. They had indicated initially that they destroyed the original stampers from the original really bad batch once we found the problem. However, we are in the process of getting a confirmation about that."

- Pornmaster Mike

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For that initial batch that we recalled, the explanation that I received from the replication company was that when they ran the QC on the discs, many of the check things like ridge specs, disc thickness, jitter, etc... were at the upper limits, but were within the standards, so they approved the discs. However, they believe now that if many of those standards were all at the upper limits, put together, they may have caused the discs to be faulty on players that have a higher sensitivity. And because it's so precise, some of the discs may be just over what the players can handle, and others may be OK.
Since those issues are above me, I can only accept their word and do as much QC here as I can.

MB - Of course my offer to Max also applies to you. You can send in your copy of Flesh Hunter 2 directly to Evil Angel and we'll send you one of our copies.

For Max and MB - please let all of us know if the new copies are OK. If need be, we can do another run and keep those copies as exchange ones for people who have more sensitive DVD players. We only have a couple hundred left of the May run, and considering that we've sold over a thousand and only 4 complaints, that's not really that high a percentage, I guess (even though Max has had 4 copies himself, it may be because he has a really good player that's really sensitive. I forgot to ask him what type of player he has.)

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thanks to Tricia and Evil Angel as well - I don't think I've ever heard of a company that will ship replacement discs straight to the customers

- Pornmaster Mike

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