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KrugStillo · 12-16-2009, 04:42 PM

Here's the deal folks. Let me start by saying that I owned a Philips BDP7200/F7 (BonusView 1.1) player that I purchased around January of 2009 at Target for $200. Stick with me there is a point to all this. I currently own close to 300 BD's and the only disc my player would no play was Drag Me To Hell, which I very frustrated about because I love the movie. After contacting Philips around the release time of that disc they told me they were working on the problem. Well, it's now December and they have yet to supply a firmware upgrade to fix the problem. So guess what I gave up and bought a Sony BDP-S360 for $118 dollars just after Thanksgiving. I recently gave my Philips to a friend because she is not as picky as me and right before I gave it to her I tried to play a few titles in it. I tried Funny People and Inglorious Basterds and both did not play and let me just say that I have the most recent firmware available. They get to the menu but won't actually play anything on the disc. I have come to the realization that it is something Universal (the company) related. It seems to only happen to thier new titles Drag Me To Hell, Funny People, Bruno and Inglorious Basterds (these are the ones I am aware of). It could be a result of something to do with specs for the BD-Live options that they obviously made some changes to, that's my best guess. Unfortunately it seems to me that alot of these BonusView players are quite possibly never gonna be able to play these discs unless Universal makes a few changes to thier specs. I wouldn't hold my breath for that one because all these discs play fine in other players. It must be some kind of internal thing where the machine tells the disc it has disabled BD-Live. Maybe in my old Philips and some other players it does not do this the same way as the players that you actually have to shut it off and therefor the disc and the player can't communicate properly. So anyway, heads up on the new Universal titles with BD-Live and I hope for others sake that these players eventually get upgraded but I just got impatient and bought a new player. Good luck to all and I hope I haven't frightened too many people.

12-16-2009, 04:42 PM	#15
KrugStillo Special Member Member since:Oct 2009 Location:New Bedford, MA Blu-ray reviews: 6	Here's the deal folks. Let me start by saying that I owned a Philips BDP7200/F7 (BonusView 1.1) player that I purchased around January of 2009 at Target for $200. Stick with me there is a point to all this. I currently own close to 300 BD's and the only disc my player would no play was Drag Me To Hell, which I very frustrated about because I love the movie. After contacting Philips around the release time of that disc they told me they were working on the problem. Well, it's now December and they have yet to supply a firmware upgrade to fix the problem. So guess what I gave up and bought a Sony BDP-S360 for $118 dollars just after Thanksgiving. I recently gave my Philips to a friend because she is not as picky as me and right before I gave it to her I tried to play a few titles in it. I tried Funny People and Inglorious Basterds and both did not play and let me just say that I have the most recent firmware available. They get to the menu but won't actually play anything on the disc. I have come to the realization that it is something Universal (the company) related. It seems to only happen to thier new titles Drag Me To Hell, Funny People, Bruno and Inglorious Basterds (these are the ones I am aware of). It could be a result of something to do with specs for the BD-Live options that they obviously made some changes to, that's my best guess. Unfortunately it seems to me that alot of these BonusView players are quite possibly never gonna be able to play these discs unless Universal makes a few changes to thier specs. I wouldn't hold my breath for that one because all these discs play fine in other players. It must be some kind of internal thing where the machine tells the disc it has disabled BD-Live. Maybe in my old Philips and some other players it does not do this the same way as the players that you actually have to shut it off and therefor the disc and the player can't communicate properly. So anyway, heads up on the new Universal titles with BD-Live and I hope for others sake that these players eventually get upgraded but I just got impatient and bought a new player. Good luck to all and I hope I haven't frightened too many people.