Prometheus issues

[HHX]

Hey guys. So i picked up the 4 disc collectors Prometheus at best buy and the 2D blu-ray disc is all messed up. I get distorted picture, macro blocking across thr screen...had to watch the dvd the other night which didnt have any issues (other tha crappy picture of course lol ) My buddy also went through 3 exchanges of the same movie at Target and kept having thr same issue with the blu-ray. Do they have defective batches in some stores??

[chip75]

Originally Posted by HHX

Hey guys. So i picked up the 4 disc collectors Prometheus at best buy and the 2D blu-ray disc is all messed up. I get distorted picture, macro blocking across thr screen...had to watch the dvd the other night which didnt have any issues (other tha crappy picture of course lol ) My buddy also went through 3 exchanges of the same movie at Target and kept having thr same issue with the blu-ray. Do they have defective batches in some stores??

A few people in the US and UK have reported issues. Some have had different results with the same players (PS3's), so it's either a production error or a firmware problem. I don't think we've heard anything official.

I watched the 2D UK version on a PS3 and it played fine but some guys have had problems with the menus (I think I've heard problems with the alternate scenes as well) and the film not going back to them after the film finishes.

[HD Goofnut]

My 2D disc plays fine in both my BD PC drive and my Playstation 3. I haven't tackled the 3D disc yet, but I probably will soon since I have a 3D display now.

[jwork]

I have problems with the bonus features disc. It won't play in my LG player. It hangs on the loading screen. This is the only disc I've ever had problems with. I exchanged it, but still had the same problem. A friend was able to play the disc on their Playstation, so I figured there was something non-standard about the disc and that the LG player couldn't handle it.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by jwork

I have problems with the bonus features disc. It won't play in my LG player. It hangs on the loading screen. This is the only disc I've ever had problems with. I exchanged it, but still had the same problem. A friend was able to play the disc on their Playstation, so I figured there was something non-standard about the disc and that the LG player couldn't handle it.

Which model is your LG player?

[Snowmaker]

I had called FOX when I had this issue in my Sony player and they said the fix was to erase all the BD Data on my player. It worked, buy I should not have to do that.

[HHX]

My Sony 1000ES blu-ray player which normally plays every movie i throw at it is giving me these issues with Prometheus, so was my PS3. Something's weird about the disc. I'll exchange it and try another one.

[Lisakurr]

I guess I better open mine up and watch it
I bought so many during BF week I haven't gotten around to that one yet.
Hopefully mine's not a problem.

[ran94]

Originally Posted by Snowmaker

I had called FOX when I had this issue in my Sony player and they said the fix was to erase all the BD Data on my player. It worked, buy I should not have to do that.

That is what happened when I played Aliens a couple of years ago on my PS3. I had to do exactly that.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Thankfully I bought a copy of the 4 disc during Black Friday week and have watched discs 2 and 3 with no issues whatsoever. I did use play all on disc 3 (someone reported full player freeze-ups at the end of each section if played one at a time in another thread) but had not one problem. I have a Sony player also, can't recall the model # but it's one of the cheap ones. I'm not connected to the web or anything else if that matters, but it had BD data saved from watching Alien 4 the day before and I didn't have to delete it.

[AmishParadise]

My 2D copy wouldn't play on my PS3. It was studdering constantly. On my Sony BDP-CX7000ES there was no studdering, but in a number of places there was macro blocking and every time a new chapter would start to play the chapter menu would pop up for a few seconds. Really screwed up. The time stamps where I was getting the macro blocking were identical to a number of other people reporting the issue as well, all of which used different model Blu-ray players. Experienced the same macro blocking issues when attempting playback from my laptop running TMT5 and WinDVD. In my case I purchased the title from Amazon.

[Jowiko96]

My 4-disc set hasn't had any problems. I bought mine at BBY during Black Friday.

Is this a USA issue only?

[ChristmasFnatic]

Oh man. I hope this is not a big problem to many. Im still to receive my copy.

[jd_from_da_80s]

I'll watch my copy tomorrow morning, hopefully I won't have any problems. If so, gotta go receipt hunting

[HHX]

I bought my copy at Best Buy, but my buddy went through 3 copies from Target and they all had the macro blocking glitching issue.

[ZooTv]

I experienced the same blocking issues many have had on my 2D disc. My 4 disc set was purchased from Amazon.

[DetroitSportsFan]

I had problems with my 2D disc in my Sony s360. It played fine on my PS3. I exchanged it, but haven't tried my new copy yet.

[jwork]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Which model is your LG player?

It's an LG BD670. It supports BD-Live if you insert a USB flash drive. I see that other people were told to erase their BD data. I have tried the move with and without a flash drive. But I will have to try it with an empty flash drive.

[AmishParadise]

I can confirm that there's absolutely nothing wrong with the video on the disc itself. It's an issue with the authoring of the disc. Taking that out of the equation (read into that what you may) the movie plays back perfectly in my Sony Blu-ray changer, PS3, and laptop/desktop, both of which have internal/external Blu-ray drives.

[zahinn]

I regret buying this movie...it just doesnt have as much replay value as i thought it would.

I seem t care for it less and less the more i think about it