BD-Live Problems with Panasonic BMP-BD35

[zreyes86]

I got the Panasonic DMP-BD35 for Christmas from my wife (she bought it from Amazon for $249) and I love it. But, I have one small issue. I am trying to use the BD-Live features of The Dark Knight to view other users' uploaded commentary but I'm not having any luck. My firmware is updated and I'm using an 8GB Class 4 SDHC card. I login to WB BD-Live and the video from the disc begins to play but there is no commentary to accompany it. Any suggestions? Sorry if this has already been answered. Thanks in advance.

[Paul.R.S]

Many others are having these kinds of Panasonic/TDK/BD-L interoperability issues (including myself; BD55 owner here). If you still care, let me know if you haven't found other threads besides this one here at Blu-ray.com and I can link you to the one at HDD. Basically, we're waiting on a firmware upgrade to address this and other issues with Panasonic players and BD-L on this title.

Edit: I see now that you've already posted in the thread I link to.

[BluRayBan]

Originally Posted by Paul.R.S

Many others are having these kinds of Panasonic/TDK/BD-L interoperability issues (including myself; BD55 owner here). If you still care, let me know if you haven't found other threads besides this one here at Blu-ray.com and I can link you to the one at HDD. Basically, we're waiting on a firmware upgrade to address this and other issues with Panasonic players and BD-L on this title.

Edit: I see now that you've already posted in the thread I link to.

I'm assuming you have both loaded firmware version 1.6 from the Panasonic site? I am about to update to this FW update from 1.4. Any reason not to update to 1.6 that anyone out there knows about? Thanks!

[Paul.R.S]

Yes, I'm at 1.6 (via direct Ethernet connection, not burning a disc via the Panasonic site).

I have not read of anyone being at 1.4, having all TDK BD-L content operate properly, then upgrading to 1.6 and finding that they have the problems others are experiencing that they did not have before. My knowledge/reading is hardly comprehensive, but I've been checking here, HTF, AVS and HDD re these issues and have not seen such an anecdote.

You're in a position to see if this is an issue though. Why don't you check out my description of the issues here, see if you have them as well before upgrading to 1.6/while you're at 1.4 and let us know the results?

[BluRayBan]

Originally Posted by Paul.R.S

You're in a position to see if this is an issue though. Why don't you check out my description of the issues here, see if you have them as well before upgrading to 1.6/while you're at 1.4 and let us know the results?

I downloaded 1.6 from panasonic site and burned to a cdr but waiting to find out if I need to upgrade to it from 1.4. I looked at your issues but I don't seem to have any issues right now with regards to discs or freezing so far. I'm just wondering if I need to get to the latest 1.6 in order to prevent future issues from happening? Is this what most would suggest to do at this point? Since I haven't loaded the new fw version yet, and folks here have issues with 1.6, then I may hold off and wait until I do encounter an issue. Thoughts anyone? Thanks.

[Paul.R.S]

I looked at your issues but I don't seem to have any issues right now with regards to discs or freezing so far.

First of all, are you saying that you are not having ANY issues accessing and properly playing back ALL The Dark Knight BD-Live content? The Patrick Leahy, Paul Levitz and user commentaries play for you? The "Sounds Of the Bat-Pod" featurette, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard premiere overture performance video and other Media Center content is properly composed: with a vid box center screen and identifying text across the top and playback control buttons visible at the bottom of your screen? Please be sure because, if so, that would be a significant development.

I'm just wondering if I need to get to the latest 1.6 in order to prevent future issues from happening? Is this what most would suggest to do at this point? Since I haven't loaded the new fw version yet, and folks here have issues with 1.6, then I may hold off and wait until I do encounter an issue.

You're assuming that the issues folks are having are 1.6-specific. At this point, we don't know that for sure--thus, the importance of your test case. Please very thoroughly check and document what BD-L content is and is not playing properly for you BEFORE you upgrade. Only then can we perhaps look at 1.6 as being a possible culprit. According to Panasonic, 1.6 was supposed to FIX certain TDK BD-L issues. As of now, I'm of the opinion that this is a Warner server or content/Panasonic hardware interoperability issue that is not necessarily firmware specific. In other words, I don't think that everyone who has had these problems is on 1.6.

Please do a thorough read of that High Def Digest thread to understand the nature of the problems, test various BD-L goodies on your player and report back.