Do I need to update firmware?

[TheGreens97]

Here's a newbie question for you...
We tried watching 'Baby mama' (forgive me) the other day and for the first time since owning my BD player (Sony 300) - it would load the menus, search and all else - but as soon as the movie itself would begin playing - the entire machine would restart. I tried several different chapters, cleaned the disk and then played a few other of my personal BD's.
Anyone recognize this as a firmware issue or have any other help for me?
Thanks.

[TheGreens97]

By the way - last update I did was in the spring sometime - right after purchase.

[kpkelley]

When was the last time you updated?

The most recent update was v4.2 in august. It added truehd encoding as well as compatability issues, so I would update just for the audio update if I were you.

[TheGreens97]

I definitely will -
This BD had a feature I haven't noticed before also - "Ufeature" or something like that. Another interactive program of some kind. I couldn't seem to turn it off - so I wonder if it is addressed in the firmware update.

[kpkelley]

U-Control, it's Universal's BD-Live/BD-Java interactive technology. I don't know if the update adresses any issues with U-Control on the BDP-S300.

[TheGreens97]

Thanks - I'll try anyway.

[Teabaggins]

did you get it from netflix?

the copy I had was skipping and getting jammed up after 5 minutes of playing and when you looked at the disc with the light reflecting off bottom at an angle you could see it had a clear manufacturing fault. the disc had a dent in it which could not be caused by human hands. looked like a tiny vortex in the disc, like space and time was being bent .

I let netflix know about it but I refused a new copy for some reason. my wife still *****es about it

[krisjan]

Originally Posted by TheGreens97

Here's a newbie question for you...
We tried watching 'Baby mama' (forgive me) the other day and for the first time since owning my BD player (Sony 300) - it would load the menus, search and all else - but as soon as the movie itself would begin playing - the entire machine would restart. I tried several different chapters, cleaned the disk and then played a few other of my personal BD's.
Anyone recognize this as a firmware issue or have any other help for me?
Thanks.

Most likely, it is not playing properly because your player neewds a FW update. Go here: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu...pl?mdl=BDPS300

Follow the instructions carefully and update your player. Contrary to info above, the latest FW is 4.3 which was released last week.