Help -- Braveheart Unwatchable on Sony S300

[Ernest Rister]

I don't mean the movie won't play, I mean any dark scene is horribly compromised by a swarm of white pixels that looks for all the world like laser rot. Even scenes of dark green are polluted by swarms and swarms of this noise. I've seen this from time to time on other titles, like a dark shot in Sweeney Todd, and an entire scene in Taken. But I couldn't get past the funeral scene on Braveheart without turning it off.

Is it the player? I suspect it is.

My equipment:

Player: Sony BDP-S300 with firmware released last June
TV: Westinghouse VK 40F580D
HDMI naturally