Blu-Ray Disc Problems

Posted by: Neill Ferguson on 12 January 2009

can anyone help my sony blu-ray player is around a year old and am having trouble getting it to play some disc's. It wouldn't play ironman from the main menu but I managed to see it from the scene selection. It won't play wall-e from the main menu either or scene selection.

anyone any ideas I have exchanged the wall-e disc at the shop and still the same thing

help if you can

Posted on: 12 January 2009 by crackie

Try & see if you can do a software update for your Sony. My Pioneer needed a current update for Batman Begins.

Current updates are usually downloaded via. the web. or they can send you out a disc.

Call Sony to find out if there is an update for your model Blu Ray player.

Posted on: 12 January 2009 by Neill Ferguson

any ideas were I get a number to call direct ? it's funny cause up until now it had no problems playing any discs

oh it played Batman returns no problem fantastic film as well

Posted on: 12 January 2009 by SC

It seems to be a growing problem with Bluray generally Neill....I've heard the Denon 2500 is having all sorts of problems with various discs. Tends to be consistent discs that are giving problems, such as Hulk or Wanted to name 2 which I believe are all very feature heavy with live content and such...

I think as the software manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of the medium, it's causing problems with the hardware, particularly with the mess of profile 1 and 2...I guess it's still early days, though it shouldn't be.....It's like DVD all over again !

Of course, you could just require a FM update with your Sony, but there are soooo many reports out there of players not working with various discs - crazy!

Posted on: 13 January 2009 by tonym

You should be able to download the update from Sony's website - go to Support.

Posted on: 13 January 2009 by Neill Ferguson

ah cheers

could anyone take time and explain profile 1 and 2 to me?

Posted on: 13 January 2009 by Roy Donaldson

You really only need BD Profile 1.1. Profile 2.0 really adds the requirement for something like 1Gb DRAM onboard and IP connectivity to run the BD Live internet content off disks.

Roy.

Posted on: 13 January 2009 by TomK

So far the only use I've been able to make of profile 2 has been to download firmware updates directly from the Internet, and this is hardly a frequent activity. I don't think anybody has really come up with anything more useful than that. It's definitely for the future and not essential for Blu Ray in its current state of development.