Underdog NOT Playing - Help! in 2007

[OneBigJedi]

I have a Pioneer Elite 95 the disc plays up the menu then just repeats. The menus do not work or move. Is anyone one else having this problem?

[DetroitSportsFan]

Do you have the latest firmware?

If so, it could be a bad disk.

[Xen]

Or, seeing as how it's a new disc, is one that is going to prompt a new firmware update across the board.

[nimrod68]

I have the BDP-S300 and have had the same problem. I traded the disc out today since there has been no major news about it, but same thing. I even reloaded the firmware, no luck. I have tried for about three hours total to try to find a backdoor to the movie, even using the scene selection. No luck. I cut the machine, tv, and receiver off and then found this thread. About half way through registering for this site, I looked over and saw the light on the player on. The timer was running, so I cut on the tv. The menu was back on where it had locked up before. For the hell of it I clicked up to Play Movie (for the 100th time) expecting nothing, but IT FINALLY WORKED!! Now I have to decide if I will stay up til 1AM watching the movie or turn it all off and hope for the best tomorrow. I think I will watch, because I may never get it to work again before the next firmware update.

[OneBigJedi]

Yes, I do have lasted firmware. It appears to be a BD-Java issue. And, yes I agree that a new firmware release for the each player will need to be release. If Disney had put an auto play in the disc after 3min or so, it would be non-issue.

[gordon cunningham]

any word on if it will play on a european ps3.

[Grisle]

This is a good thing...maybe your player is trying to tell you something. J/K...sorry for being an ass, but I have to take what I'm given.

[gordon cunningham]

scratch that last post, i foundm out it doesnt

[Pictor]

I had the same problem on my Sony BDP-S300. It seems that my error was hitting the "next chapter" button on the remote until I hit the menu. When I put in the movie and waited for eternety I was able to get past the menu and play the move. Glad it's only a rental from Netflix.

[acloutier]

Hi there~~~
I just read your post regarding the s300 so all you had to do was just let the previews play all the way through without rushing them and it worked fine once you got to the menu you were able to just hit enter on play and it worked? Armand


(Also so everyone knows I saw on another blu-ray.com forum that all sony blu-rays were updated with new firmware.)

[nimrod68]

OK, here is what I have found works for ME and my S300 player. Put in the disc and let it start the Disney promo that begins with Pirates 3. You CAN hit the menu button on your remote to skip all the trailers and go straight to the menu. Let it load and do the Underdog logo stuff to bring up the Menu. DON'T HIT ANY BUTTONS ON THE REMOTE!! Just let the menu loop over and over and OVER again. Remember, as bad as you want to push that button on the remote, don't. Just lay it down for now. At the ten minute mark (I know it sounds absurd) the highlighted area of the menu will drop down from Play Movie to Special Features. Once this has happened, find the remote you set down somewhere ten minutes ago and feel free to arrow back up to Play Movie and PRESTO.

This of course is going to be a PR nightmare come Christmas morning when all those wrapped copies are popped into those new players!! I just hope those PS3s play it fine. I will find out when I (I mean my son) upwraps my (I mean his) PS3 Christmas morning.

[quetzalcoatl]

For those with the 300 that might be why there was a FW update posted yesterday from the FTP Sony site. It is still not on the main site. As to the problems with the 95 I still do not have my disc yet. UPS lost mine so I am waiting on a new one. But someone posted over at AVS that a new FW was comming for the 95 as well. So this could be why.

[acloutier]

Downloaded the new version of the firmware for the sony s300 and now it works perfectly. Armand