Slightly OT: Blu-Ray player reliability

hackazoid wrote on 1/28/2010, 9:05 AM
Anybody else having issues with commercial Blu Ray disk playback? I have 2 Samsung BD-P1600 units which have trouble reading certain BR disks from NetFlix. In particular the Mad Men Season 1 and now the first disk in Season 2.

On both units it skips around, freezes, then starts etc etc. For season 1, I changed to DVDs but only 3 episodes/disk and not as good quality, so hoped Season 2 would work--not.

Netflix is good on replacement but with mulitple players and disks, seems to be a pattern. The NF site does have cautionary language about compatibility & firmware updates (believe I am current).

So, my questions:

* is there something specific with the Mad Men disk format?

* does the Samsung 3600 work better? I thought the basic difference was on board memory for BD live and that the USB slot would play video in addition to stills like on the 1600.

* anybody use Sony S560 or N460? Other models?

* if I head down the Blu Ray path with Vegas, is this compatibility a real issue for the near future until standards or whatever are more uniform? Is this like some of the early DVD days?

Appreciate some opinions. Thanks.

Comments

amendegw wrote on 1/28/2010, 9:49 AM
I also have a Samsung BDP1600. I've seen some VERY intermittent freezes on some Netflix disks (I've not viewed the disks you are having problems with).

That said, I would suggest you go to the CNET Samsung forum: http://forums.cnet.com/samsung-forum/ and post your issue there. The CNET forum is moderated by Samsung techs.

Good Luck!
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TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/28/2010, 10:01 AM
i've had to update my player to get some BD discs to work.

Pretty damn annoying imho.
Edward wrote on 1/28/2010, 3:04 PM
My PS3 was pretty reliable. 'was' is the keyword. It just gave up on me. Won't read pretty much anything now. My mom's Sony BD player (dunno the model, but it was selling for $250 at Sam's club a year and a half ago) wouldn't play Kung Fu Panda and others (it was kinda hard to convince the kids to stay at their Nana's house after that :P)
hackazoid wrote on 1/29/2010, 12:19 AM
Thanks, have put a post on the CNET site. Didn't know that was a resource, appreciate it.

With these troubles on 'commercial' productions, are the Blu Rays from Vegas prone to the same incompatibility issues? I can only imagine the frustration of doing the extra efforts and time and then it can't play properly.

A. Grandt wrote on 1/29/2010, 2:53 AM
bigsole:

My PS3 have yet to cause me any trouble with BD's. Your problems sound more like a general drive issue than a decoder problem.
Sad fact about BD is that newer titles do obviously use Profile 1.1 and 2.0 features, where older players may not support these. But if I understand the specs, discs should at least be able to play the main feature without trouble even on a Profile 1.0 drive.

Have studios begun to use heavier artillery on copy protection, now that both AACS and BD+ are pretty much broken, causing the discs to become incompatible on some players?