Blu Ray Blues after Avatar
Submitted by dpedigo on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 1:34pm
So I have run into this in a couple of instances and wonder if any of our members are experiencing the same problem. On a couple of Blu-Ray players, after watching the Blu-Ray version of Avatar, the player will no longer play any standard definition DVD's. There is an error message that shows up saying "this disk cannot be played." The player has no problem with Blu-Ray disks, just SD disks dont work.
I have found this on two players, each different manufacturers, one connected through HDMI and one connected through Y, Pr, Pb. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
Older Samsung Players
I have two different early Samsung BD players that have problems with 'Avatar.' The BD-UP5000 will not play it at all and no firmware update is available yet to allow it. The BD-1200 did have a firmware update that allows the BD to play. However, a line of menu display appears for many seconds near the lower center of the screen at each chapter break in the movie. It documents the time into the film with numbers and a lineal graph. I have also experienced problems with another BD movie since updating the firmware. 'Shirlock Holmes' had severe lip sync error. I returned the disc, thinking it was a bad disc. Since then, I have read on AVS a post by another owner who experienced the same problem with the same player and movie. It payed fine on a PS3.
With this report, I will check more DVDs and BDs from my collection to see if there are other problems. I say we go back to HD DVD!!!!
Samsung BD-UP5000
There has in fact been a firmware upgrade for the Samsung 5000 Combo HDDVD/BD Player for over a week. (VERSION 1.5)
However, there are now reports of up to 10 BD disc's that will no longer play after the update in order to make Avatar playable. Some of these disks include Sunshine... Pirates of the Carribbean titles. Some users report having to revert back to firmware version 1.4 in order to play previously working discs.
However, I was not aware of any SD DVD's being affected??
This kind of nonsense never happened with Toshiba HD players. Its seems every other new Fox Bluray title causes massive headaches. This is absolutely unacceptable. No wonder downloading and broadband streaming seam to be eclipsing physical media.
It would have helped if the original poster can describe what players he is talking about.
I have a Samsung BDP-1500
I have a Samsung BDP-1500 that needed an upgrage to play Avatar and then wouldn't play Clapton/Winwood on BluRay
Update
I'll look into the new firmware update you mention. I just checked two newer BDs ('Heat' & 'Star Trek') and an old DVD ('The Abyss') on the BD-P1200with no glitches experienced.
Marantz BD-5004 after Avatar
My Marantz BD-5004 wouldn't play the Iron Man Blu-Ray after playing Avatar.
All of the other Blu-Ray and standard DVD discs worked OK.
Purchased and installed a 2GB SD memory card and now Iron Man plays too.
Crestron
I found out that the new ADMS from crestron will not play Avatar BR, the picture is so pixelated and chopped up it makes the SD DVD look really good. Try to explain that to a simple minded customer who just paid 10k for an ADMS.
Crestron
Looks like they fixed it - and the ADMS prompted me to download the update.
What models?
What were the models where this didn't work?
Model #s
They are Samsung BD-P1400 & PS 3 slim.
Models?
It would greatly help if you listed the models affected so we could check them.
Also note that there was a specific firmware problem on LG BD300 (?) that caused DVD's and CD's not to work, LG will repair it free if you mention that the firmware messed it up.
Spoiled player
The quality of the movie was so good that the players refuse to play anything less than the best quality video source. The players have been spoiled by James Cameron!
RE: spoiled player
You are so lame!
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