Blu-ray Discussion

Hi
This is my first post. Ive got a philips BDP5100-12 player and Ive got no problems playing any bluray disc until now. I bought a TV series called Strike Back earlier this week and all I get is that its an unknown disc.
I went to the philips site and upgraded software and firmware, again, all discs play but Strike Back. I got in contact with the seller and she claims that she had no problems running it on a Sony player, now this is where my PS3 comes in.....guess what....unknown disc. Gonna test it on a mates PS3 tmrw but I stand doubtful that it will play.

Are the Sony 2000ES and 5000ES still in production? If not, does anyone know why Sony pulled the plug?

Just wondering how many of you have a bluray player that can use netflix and how it works for you.  I have a Sony Bdp 470 with a wireless bridge attached to it to get the signal for the internet.  I was hoping that by buying the separate unit it would work better and have no lag like my phone that has almost no problem playing netflix.  I had heard the ones with built in wifi didn't work that well.  When it works the picture is great but when it doesn't it can sometimes pause the movie many times during play picture always looks good though.

Hi there
i recently got a SONy BDP S370 entry BD player. i ran .avi flies off the USB. then i ran .mkv files of the USB>
After running .mkv files, the player stopped showing .avi files in the US and Data Disk both. I updated the firmware from the net. yet the system does not recognize the .avi files.
SOny support is lost and have no clues on how to identify the problem.
 
please advice, if u have seen such issues / bugs with the firware.
thanks and regards
Pankaj Ghai

I rented the new "Harry Potter" from my local Blockbuster, and it was labelled "rental". I was assaulted by almost 15 minutes of "up front ads" for video games, tv shows, trailers (which I usually like), all in glorious SD, 4:3, DD 2.0! I was unable to forward to the menu  (using a Pansonic BD-55),  and had to sit through all this junk. Is this a new low for Warner? Are the "rental" versions any different from the "purchase" versions? The film, when it finally got rolling, was presented correctly, 2.35:1, Dolby Tru-HD.

Has anyone had trouble accessing the Dolby True HD 192/24 5.1 ch audio track ?
Using a Panasonic BD80 with a variety of AVRs (Denon, Marantz, Rotel) via HDMI, results in the DTHD 192/24 5.1 track being down-sampled to DD2.0.
No problem with 192/24 when the Panasonic is re-set to output LPCM.
Does this BD have an authoring flaw ?
Or is the Panasonic at fault ?
I have no other BD 192/24 material to compare against.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I'm interested in Blu Ray.  Unfortunately, the only video projector that I have has only composite, S-Video, and VGA inputs.  So my question is...
 
Does anyone make a Blu-Ray player that will utilize the maximum 1024x786 res of my projector via the VGA input?  If nobody makes a native VGA output, does anyone make a HDMI-to-VGA converter that would do the same thing?  Finally, if none of the previous options are a starter, does anyone make an inexpensive video processor that will down-res a signal for my projector?
 

During Star Trek  (2009), I noticed 3 audio dropouts with my Oppo BDP-83. I am using the HDMI output (Monster 1000HD HDMI cable) from the Oppo (which has the latest firmware update-9/30/09)  to my Integra DHC-99 pre/processor. I have only experienced the audio dropouts with the Star Trek Blu-ray disc (the Oppo has worked flawlessly otherwise).

If you're interested in a free LG Blu-Ray Player, SweepStar is giving one away.

I am wondering if anyone out there has had this same problem. Recently, we had a customer who downloaded the current firmware update from Oppo. This helped make more disc titles compatible and playbable by the player and also helped on loading times of times. But on the flip side, the player seems to have had its top and bottom end frequencies accentuated significantly, while losing midrange. This creates a harsh and exaggerated sound to the high frequencies and a an exaggerated overblown bass. Sounded quite awful actually.