After two years of glitch free play my X-800 has decided to be a pain in the ass. Might just be showing its age because i've put some serious miles on it - hours a day - be it playing discs, watching Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Latest firmware but problems with three different blemish free discs in the last week - pixelation and general freezing/skipping. Darkest Hour, the Darkest Hour replacement disc (crapping out in the exact same spots, which raises red flags that it was the player not the discs) and The Purge: Anarchy last night. All Universal titles, so I don't know if that means anything
Also watched Tomb Raider (Warner Bros), Ghost in the Shell (Paramount), Snow White and the Huntsman (Universal) and Equalizer 2 (Sony) but they were all fine. Still, three discs in one week after nothing in two years is too much of a coincidence.
Been meaning to buy a back-up player anyway so I went for the Panasonic 820 which i've wanted to check out for a while now. It'll be interesting to see if the same discs give me problems on the Panny.