Issue with player?

[RyanP]

Recently I have picked up God Lord Bird ans season 1 of Blood and Treasure. Both have turned out to burned (which sucks) but in both cases my player won't read the discs at all. I have a Sony 3d player that's a few years old. I have bought burned discs b4 (8 Crazy Nights) and have never had an issue until now. So is my player the issue or are companies truly releasing discs that are just straight crap?

[hariseldon]

More than likely the discs were poorly burned or could be a variation that your player can't handle. Some players handle BDR better than others so certainly worth checking on a different brand machine if possible and certainly a more recent model if you have

If you have a PC BDROM, then I suggest running VSO Inspector to check the disc.

[hariseldon]

More than likely the discs were poorly burned or could be a variation that your player can't handle. Some players handle BDR better than others so certainly worth checking on a different brand machine if possible and certainly a more recent model if you have

It appears Blood and Treasure was a Paramount and probably Allied Vaughn titles (assuming it's from them and not a Ebay 'help themselves' version) . AV usually make good discs, but all the burned titles seem to have bad batches even from them. It's possible exchanging for a different set might be worth a shot. Good Lord Bird is a Showtime Title, but not sure who handles those officially (EDIT appears to also be Allied Vaughn which leads me back to your player being out of date. It appears you did try a second set of one of the titles)

If you have a PC BDROM, then I suggest running VSO Inspector to check the disc.

[RyanP]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

More than likely the discs were poorly burned or could be a variation that your player can't handle. Some players handle BDR better than others so certainly worth checking on a different brand machine if possible and certainly a more recent model if you have

It appears Blood and Treasure was a Paramount and probably Allied Vaughn titles (assuming it's from them and not a Ebay 'help themselves' version) . AV usually make good discs, but all the burned titles seem to have bad batches even from them. It's possible exchanging for a different set might be worth a shot. Good Lord Bird is a Showtime Title, but not sure who handles those officially (EDIT appears to also be Allied Vaughn which leads me back to your player being out of date. It appears you did try a second set of one of the titles)

If you have a PC BDROM, then I suggest running VSO Inspector to check the disc.

I tried 3 different versions of Good Love Bird so it would seem all of them are bad lol. It might be the player but the discs are so cheap and burned odd, the line u see on burned discs is rt in the middle of the discs and they are almost black. Not at all like my burned copy of 8 crazy nights (that works on this player just fine),

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by RyanP

I tried 3 different versions of Good Love Bird so it would seem all of them are bad lol. It might be the player but the discs are so cheap and burned odd, the line u see on burned discs is rt in the middle of the discs and they are almost black. Not at all like my burned copy of 8 crazy nights (that works on this player just fine),

The black surface is what most of the commercial BDR I've seen look like. I know different brand disc and burning formats do make the disc surface look different colors (or at least tint/shades).

If 3 copies don't work then I doubt if it's a bad disc or burn technique. Again Allied Vaughn is probably about the gold standard of current Commercial Disc Burn technology. Trying to find a newer player to try would be my next step -- if your Walmart or local BBY have players hooked up I might ask if they would try to play the disc

Like some newer security encodes requires UTD firmware, it may be possible your older player doesn't handle the new BDR discs. I'm not sure if older players might have issues with BDR50, but may work fine with BDR25. What model player do you actually have -- not sure if the manual lists which specific discs work and which it might not handle.

Nobody else in the small thread complained about it not playing though not sure how many people actually have it

[rdodolak]

There's no standard nor requirement for players to support BD-Rs so support can be hit or miss with players.

[SMOOT]

My experience has been that the first sign a player is getting old and going to be a problem is, yes, burned discs start to become unrecognized. Soon, the player itself begins to be a problem with other discs.

Now, that is just me: I'm not making a universal statement — As the older players for me were both a Panasonic 3D player and a Samsung 3D player — Both now retired.

I do have an LG90 and a Sony x700 (which, as you may know, both play 3D Blu-rays), and they can both play any burned disc that I put in them. Any disc (burned or pressed) that was a problem for the older and worn players have not been a problem for these players.

And, yes, I agree that the quality of how a disc is burned is important.