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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Have you encountered any bad BluRay discs? Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 15:39 |
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Joined: 22 Nov 2011, 18:54 Posts: 698 Location: United States Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 5 times
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Last week, I tried to play the BR disc of Kubo and the Two Strings and found out that my Sony BR player did not recognize the disc or the front counter would start at 0, count up to 8 and stop. I have played other BR discs in the Sony since then and they performed very well. Fortunately, there was a DVD of Kubo in the Case and it played well.
Has anyone else encountered non-working BR discs?
_________________ LD Pioneer CLD-D406 Sony MDP-600 CED 934-54780150, 934.54810350, SJT-200, CED-1, 3-VIP1000, VIP201P
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laserpaal
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Post subject: Re: Have you encountered any bad BluRay discs? Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 23:49 |
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Joined: 15 Apr 2012, 10:36 Posts: 544 Location: Norway Has thanked: 9 times Been thanked: 17 times
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I have never encountered bad Blu-ray discs. I take it you mean discs that have problems like disc rot, etc.? Have you tried to update the current version of the player's firmware if there is one available?
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laserdisc_fan
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Post subject: Re: Have you encountered any bad BluRay discs? Posted: 10 Jan 2017, 01:15 |
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Joined: 29 Jan 2006, 20:05 Posts: 2266 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 23 times
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I haven't encountered any Blu-ray playback issues so far, however I've been hesitant to start collecting those premium priced Steelbook editions having read about various rust problems starting to develop on the outer cases which are after all made from steel so are guaranteed to eventually rust. At the end of the day they are just like biscuit tin metal and I don't ever recall managing to preserve a biscuit tin for more than a few years without it getting rather sad looking. I can fully understand how depressing it would be to see them start to develop rust spots within a few years as illustrated by someone else here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8j1FrIJ5wI'm guessing by the time they reach the age of most of my laserdiscs (30+) they will look terrible.
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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Re: Have you encountered any bad BluRay discs? Posted: 10 Jan 2017, 17:09 |
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Joined: 22 Nov 2011, 18:54 Posts: 698 Location: United States Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 5 times
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The Kubo BR disc is the first non-working BlueRay disc that I have encountered. I looked into updating the firmware and confusion runs rampant. There are 3 versions listed on Sony's website. Since I have not found out which firmware version is in the player, it is hard to select which Sony version to select. I have downloaded v11 as a start.
Of all the video formats I have (CED, HD-DVD, LD, DVD, BR), I would have to say that HD-DVD has given me the most troublesome discs. In order of problems, I would have to say the formats are (in worst to best): HD-DVD, CED, LD, DVD and BR. HD-DVD discs have problems such as being unrecognized by the player or freezing on playback. CED discs either are dirty causing excessive skipping or are just plain worn-out. The LD's I have (so far) show little laserrot. I do have some Sony LD's (Mind's Eye and Odyssey into the Mind's Eye) that exhibit colored sparklies when played. DVD and BR discs are about equal in good quality playback with almost zero problems. This is why I was surprised that the Kubo BR disc would not play even though it is a very recent movie.
_________________ LD Pioneer CLD-D406 Sony MDP-600 CED 934-54780150, 934.54810350, SJT-200, CED-1, 3-VIP1000, VIP201P
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kris
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Post subject: Re: Have you encountered any bad BluRay discs? Posted: 10 Jan 2017, 21:31 |
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006, 19:08 Posts: 1181 Location: Belgium Has thanked: 47 times Been thanked: 32 times
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My copy of Skyfall freezes up. It happened the 2nd time I played it on whatever player. I got a replacement that works just fine. No trace of any scratches... It's a mystery
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Have you encountered any bad BluRay discs? Posted: 02 Feb 2018, 09:38 |
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Joined: 14 Jan 2010, 09:44 Posts: 5982 Location: Ann Arbor Has thanked: 1281 times Been thanked: 1102 times
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I have a very early Sony player that I’ve never updated and won’t play a few things. One of them is the Criterion Life Aquatic but I don’t remember the others. It’s a short list but then I’ve got a half dozen LD players have have viewed hundreds of Laserdiscs over decades and never have I had one that just won’t play so to me, personally, I consider BR to be a great but sometimes unreliable format. Sure, you can update to fix the problem but that IS a problem to me since shipping non-working stuff has become much more acceptable in the HD era. Also, nobody has issues simply making a BR disc that will play the part that causes the problem is going to be ads, copyright protection or the menus, all of which I have zero respect or need for so they are their own worst enemy in this area.
I have a PS3 that of course plays everything but it’s also spent so much time updating that Sony should send me a check for the power consumption. What I love is when the power dies mid-update (the odds are good at some point this will happen) and you get the message that rebuilding the drive may take up to nine hours. Hhmm...how many LDs can I watch and how many SNES games can I play in nine hours...
BR is the best format ever ONCE ITS PLAYING but waiting for stuff to load just so I can skip it as fast as it will let me, and wait for more stuff to load so I can skip that is a total BS PITA and I’m extremely resentful of it. They do all they can to drive you to piracy or streaming which are way more straightforward methods of watching something. The people who pay actual $$$ just get threatended with prison for stealing when they start the movie.
I’m rebuying all my Ghibli movies on DVD and BR from GKids because they don’t promote biscuits and SUVs in the inserts and the commentary disclaimers are at the END of the movie where they should be!
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