Icon Blu-Rays that won’t play!

[IanSchultz23]

Hi, my previous post got deleted for some reason I’ve now tested all of my Icon Blu-Ray titles. The following titles won’t player on any blu-ray player I own.

The Box
The Killer Inside Me
The Passion of the Christ (bonus dvd plays fine)
Y tu mamá también

There were no serious scratches or anything on the discs, another member PMed me saying that had the same issue with The Killer Inside Me.

[Troy Perkins]

Hi - I checked my copy of The Killer Inside Me yesterday after reading your first post, then spent ages trying to find it to reply to ��

Unfortunately mine won’t play on my Samsung Blu-Ray player either - it only recognises the audio and image sub folders on the disc?

Mint condition disc so possibly an authoring problem.

Is Apocalypto also an Icon release? If so I’ll dig that out later to test.

Got a sealed copy of The Nice Guys too which hopefully as a much more recent release won’t be affected...

[Blu Lemmy]

I'll check my copy later

[Dickieduvet]

Had to bin a copy of Shelter not long ago, need to go through some more.

[Dickieduvet]

As a quick follow up post,

Killer Inside Me is borked, won't play at all.

Gave a few other Icon discs a quick check which were thankfully ok, which included.

The Road
30 Days Of Night
The Collector
Alpha Dog
Cold In July
The Box

[Troy Perkins]

Originally Posted by Dickieduvet

As a quick follow up post,

Killer Inside Me is borked, won't play at all.

Gave a few other Icon discs a quick check which were thankfully ok, which included.

The Road
30 Days Of Night
The Collector
Alpha Dog
Cold In July
The Box

Ok, that’s three posters confirmed The Killer Inside Me is absolutely knackered. Not great, I’ve got DVDs I bought back in 98 that still play perfectly fine.

[Dickieduvet]

Originally Posted by Troy Perkins

Ok, that’s three posters confirmed The Killer Inside Me is absolutely knackered. Not great, I’ve got DVDs I bought back in 98 that still play perfectly fine.

I did notice on the Killer Inside Me disc that the readable side has slightly bronzed, same as all those US Lionsgate Blu Ray's that went tits up!

[drush9999]

I recently bought used copies of We Were Soldiers & Dan in Real Life from Icon and they both play fine. Will have to check my other Icon discs.

I've had early US Lionsgate and Criterion go the way of the dodo (Bangkok Dangerous, The Lady Vanishes etc). Also early UK Optimum titles like The Losers & Whiteout.
Seems to a theme with pre 2010 discs...

[Erasmus Craven]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

Hi, my previous post got deleted for some reason I’ve now tested all of my Icon Blu-Ray titles. The following titles won’t player on any blu-ray player I own.

The Box
The Killer Inside Me
The Passion of the Christ (bonus dvd plays fine)
Y tu mamá también

Confirming The Killer Inside Me is dead and gone.
Checked Y Tu Mama, Passion OTC, The Road, Pandorum, Drive, Cold In July, Let Me In and Apocalypto, all of them (still?) play fine.

[Gizz]

Check both of these and they play fine

[leafan]

My copy of The Road on blu ray will not play, it just opens the sub-folders as someone mentioned above.

[rapta]

Dammit, this isn't good. I wonder why it's affecting Icon titles in particular? Let's hope some of these get picked up by Second Sight, who have been slowly licensing Icon titles recently (particularly The Road).

[Dickieduvet]

My copy of The Road is the Steelbook edition which was a Zavvi jobby 4 yrs after the initial release.

Might be why it still plays.

[Eddie Adams]

After I Pm'd you yesterday, tried Killer Inside Me (after unwrapping the cellophane, lol) to find neither of my 2 blu players or 4k would play it. Pretty much bollix'd all round.

[IanSchultz23]

Originally Posted by leafan

My copy of The Road on blu ray will not play, it just opens the sub-folders as someone mentioned above.

My copy of the Road plays fine.

[rapta]

Originally Posted by Eddie Adams

After I Pm'd you yesterday, tried Killer Inside Me (after unwrapping the cellophane, lol) to find neither of my 2 blu players or 4k would play it. Pretty much bollix'd all round.

Think I have a sealed copy in storage (from Poundland, so no big loss). Shame to hear it's probably unwatchable!

[Troy Perkins]

Originally Posted by drush9999

I've had early US Lionsgate and Criterion go the way of the dodo (Bangkok Dangerous, The Lady Vanishes etc). Also early UK Optimum titles like The Losers & Whiteout.
Seems to a theme with pre 2010 discs...

You had me worried then so just cracked open the cellophane on a brand new Optimum release copy of The Losers... Been unwatched on my shelf for years as got the US import version by Warner off eBay cheap.

Luckily it plays fine.

[raphph]

Just tested my Killer Inside Me copy that I bought in last 24 months for about £2
And works fine
I'm going to make a backup of it on MKV too

[Troy Perkins]

My Icon blu-Ray of Apocalypto still plays fine which is good news and that IS a freaking great movie.

The only other Icon disc I still need to dig out and check is 30 Days of Night, the old release which came in a thin US style case for some bizarre reason.

[DaveSimonH]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

Hi, my previous post got deleted for some reason I’ve now tested all of my Icon Blu-Ray titles. The following titles won’t player on any blu-ray player I own.

The Box
The Killer Inside Me
The Passion of the Christ (bonus dvd plays fine)
Y tu mamá también

There were no serious scratches or anything on the discs, another member PMed me saying that had the same issue with The Killer Inside Me.

Looks like all 4 of those were released in 2010. I'll start around there and test some discs. Looks like I have 18 Icon releases (including a couple of AUS imports):

[Show spoiler]

I'll post again later, listing any that show issues. Were the discs refusing to load at all, or where they able to get to the menu?
I had a Lionsgate disc of 'The Eye', which would load to the menu but no text, so you couldn't actually start the film.

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EDIT: All discs fine (loaded & I skipped through chapters), apart from one - 'Pandorum'.



As others have said, it stayed on player (Samsung) menu and acted like a CD/DVD data disc. Although on entering 'Stream' folder and selecting a file it wouldn't run.
I also tested it on my PC's BD-ROM drive, basically acted like their was no disc in the drive. To rule out a drive issue, I grabbed a random nearby disc ('Captain America') and it was recognised by the drive instantly.


EDIT2: It's pretty cheap, so I ordered another copy. If it works great, if not I'll maybe get an import later or something.
My faulty disc definitely worked previously, I think I watched it a couple of times but definitely once during a Halloween movie marathon.