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Paranormal Destinations

Maribeth Brinson | Indiana | 07/15/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This was a gift to a friend, so I didn't watch it myself until later, when there was a slight problem on the DVD itself. One section on Gettysburg, would not go to the indivual breaks, but if you go back to the menu, start all over again and ff until you get to the next section, then you can see it. It's not like only the first section was there, the entire story of the ghosts of Gettysburg were there, you just had to work to see it all. The breaks probably occured for commericals for the original broadcast. No other problems with any of the other subjects. Hopefully it was a problem with just the one DVD."

I can confirm the faulty DVD

S. Moon | SLC, UT USA | 03/14/2010

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I got this after reading about the faulty DVD. To get around this I thought I would rip the DVD with Handbrake but on the second show on the DVD, 'Ghosts of Gettysburg', it would only rip 8 minutes of the 45. So I watched the DVD and sure enough it would play 8 minutes of it and then go back to the menu. So, what I did was I ripped that title as 7 parts, each chapter individually, and then combined all the chapters with a program called mkvmerge. I add the first chapter and then 'append' each chapter after it in order. I get the full episode but for some reason it doesn't put chapter markers in it.



The rest of the content plays fine from the DVD and rips to hard drive just fine, it's just 'Ghosts of Gettysburg' that messes up and I fixed that by making a copy of it.



The actual content is ok, I've watched half of it by now and I have to say I like History Channel shows better. The one on Dracula was interesting and the one on the Salem Witch trials was good and I'll update when I watch the other 3 programs on this DVD.



So, if you can make a copy like me or if you don't mind starting 'Ghosts of Gettysburg' and watching it till it quits then when you're kicked back into the menu and restarting it and skipping through the chapters to where you left off then this DVD is a pretty good DVD. I find it hard to believe that this hasn't been fixed, I doubt this is a one run item, they had to know it was flawed but they kept making new copies of it.



So I'm taking two starts off for the faulty DVD and one off just because I didn't think the shows were the best but still worth watching.



UPDATE: Well, I couldn't help myself and watched all of the DVD today, thought 'Why save it for later?'. Anyway, it all worked fine, just the 'Ghosts of Gettysburg' had problems playing like I said above. I still don't think they are as good as what is on the History Channel, not as well acted in the reenactments and not as information rich either. They are still worth a watch though, so bear in mind if it wasn't for the faulty DVD then I would have given it a 4 star rating, just one star off because of content."