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Michael Kerpan wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:32 am Finally tried to play the UHD -- it looked great -- until it got stuck around the 31 minute mark. Ironically, the BD also glitched almost at the same point. I tried playing these on my PC. No SGX so no UHD playing. And the BD didn't work either (no error message -- just nothing).

Perhaps try emailing Criterion for a replacement disc if you can, I'm sure they'd be willing to send it to you.

Yep get a replacement disc on that. Criterion is well known for being good with replacements and customer service.

With that said, the case layout for this release is not the best. When I got my copy on release day, the 4K UHD was scratched because the 4K disc is sandwiched between the bottom Blu-ray Disc and the case itself. I'm sure Criterion has done this formatting with a lot of their other releases (Probably most of their 4K releases since a lot of titles have their extras on the Blu-ray disc).

I guess I am surprised that neithe disc worked. Apparently the Sony player can have a problem in layer shifting on high capacity discs -- but that shouldn't have affected the BD, right?

Addendum --Looked at in the light of day, BOTH discs were covered by greasy fingerprints and other muck. Cleaned off, the UHD played just fine. I suspect the BD will also now work -- but I will test it another day.