Can someone help me!?

[rayMond Blu-]

Hi, I just joined this site and I just went blu. Blu-ray that is! Last weekend, my mom bought me an early Christmas present: a Sharp BD Player and my first Blu-ray Disc, Casino. I already have a Sharp HDTV along with an HDMI cable, but I'm having a couple of technical issues that I hope someone could answer.

1. The player gives me the option of having HDMI or Composite output, so I use the HDMI of course. The problem is a message pops up on screen saying "Copy protected signals cannot be outputted to the connected equipment." That is when it is in HDMI output, but when I switch it to composite it works fine.

2. The other problem is I am having a very tough time getting the movie (Casino) to load. It starts up with showing the Universal title, asks me for a language, shows the rating symbol, etc. and then just goes black. It sounds like it is processing within the player, but nothing is happening. The funny thing is when I put in a DVD like WALL-E, it loads very fast and starts the movie.

Has anyone had any problems like these? Do I need to update the player or something or could it just be a bad disc? Some feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[aramis109]

Update the firmware on the player for #2. The only thing I can think of for #1 is that it's either a 1.1 cable, or it's bad. I was trying to read and see whether or not earlier HDMI cables that weren't tested with HDCP would work or not, and while I can't find anything that says they won't, that may be something to try- maybe borrow a different HDMI cable. I have to admit I'm guessing here and could very well be wrong.

How do you have your setup hooked up? Do you have a receiver? If so, what model?

[crackinhedz]

what is the TV model number?

[william grigsbyIII]

need to know how to up date my blu-ray to play the lastest movies such Wanted

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by william grigsbyIII

need to know how to up date my blu-ray to play the lastest movies such Wanted

We'd need to know what your player model is first and what you expect to get from Wanted.


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[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by william grigsbyIII

need to know how to up date my blu-ray to play the lastest movies such Wanted

Why did you post this totally unrelated question in this thread? If you want to ask a question, start a new thread in the proper forum with the question clearly in the title. You will also need to define what, exactly, you are looking for. What model number player do you have? What is it doing/not doing with wanted? Have you read the owner's manual on how to update firmware? Have you visited the website of the player? Have you searched this forum for similar issues with your player?

To the OP: As Crack said, you'll need to provide the model number of your TV and what brand/kind of HDMI cable you are using (where did you get it).

[mgrimsley]

the guy is new to blu-ray.com so why not cut him some slack.

[rayMond Blu-]

Sorry if I was too vague. It's a Sharp HDTV and the model is LC-26AD22U. It has a built in DVD player (I know, it sounds weird to have a Blu-ray Player connect to it, but my parents bought it last year as a gift and thought it would be nice to have one along with it.)

I first used an HDMI cable from Comcast. I tried it and it didn't work. When I got the Sharp Blu-ray player (Model BD-HP21) I also got a Rockefish HDMI cable. I tried it and it still didn't work.

The tv came out last year and I believe the player just came out in September. I did read somewhere in the manual about updating the player, but I just want to be sure from you guys about any other suggestions. I went to Best Buy earlier today and a guy told me I may need to do a firmware update. Is this true?

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by mgrimsley

the guy is new to blu-ray.com so why not cut him some slack.

I'm all for cutting folks some slack, but there is a limit that applies in this case. You don't crap in another thread, especially with a half-assed question for which no rational person would even think could be answered based on the total lack of information provided. I see that you didn't take the time to help him out, did you? I, at least, provided some avenues down which he could pursue.

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by rayMond Blu-

Sorry if I was too vague. It's a Sharp HDTV and the model is LC-26AD22U. It has a built in DVD player (I know, it sounds weird to have a Blu-ray Player connect to it, but my parents bought it last year as a gift and thought it would be nice to have one along with it.)

I first used an HDMI cable from Comcast. I tried it and it didn't work. When I got the Sharp Blu-ray player (Model BD-HP21) I also got a Rockefish HDMI cable. I tried it and it still didn't work.

The tv came out last year and I believe the player just came out in September. I did read somewhere in the manual about updating the player, but I just want to be sure from you guys about any other suggestions. I went to Best Buy earlier today and a guy told me I may need to do a firmware update. Is this true?

I've looked, but can't find a whole lot of information about your set. I will say, though, that is most likely not your cable. Your set is 1366x768, so make sure your player is not outputing 1080p (I doubt that's the problem, but you never know). Try a firmaware update on your Sharp BD player and see if that fixes the problem. Report back here after you've done that and let us know what happened. If it's still not working, then we'll go back to the drawing board.

[rayMond Blu-]

Well, I just watched The Dark Knight last night! Weird how that work. I didn't expect that to happen.

Anyway, so to do the firmware update, do I just save it onto a USB drive, then download it onto the player? And if so, would would you recommend for space (2 or 4 GB or higher?)