problem with disk or player? - Blu-ray Forum

Smokin' T · 01-20-2008, 03:23 PM

I've had a Toshiba HD-DVD player for almost a year and recently added a Sony BDP-S300. My first three Blu-ray buys were "Terminator 2," "Tears of the Sun" and "3:10 to Yuma." Th first looked super — as good as any of the HD-DVDs I've seen. "Tears" looked good mainly when viewing the Hawaii locales. Much of the transfer looked dark and not really any clearer than an upconverted SD DVD.

It's "3:10" that has me worried. After a very long upload (a number of bars marching by for maybe a minute) it sat still until I pushed "play," then it played through about 8 previews, including an ad for the new "Rambo," and then got stuck on a pre-menu screen that wouldn't give me any options (no written words) and just kept playing the menu music over and over. I tried all the advancing buttons, pushed top menu and pop-up menu and system menu. I stopped it and started it a few times. and even turned off the player and rebooted.

A one-in-three chance of problems isn't encouraging. Anyone have any ideas or is it possibly a defective disc rushed into the market to meet demand and plug the new Stallone movie?

One other thing I might mention: I have both hi-def players connected to one HDMI input on my Song HD Wega TV by means of a $100 HDMI switcher. I don't see how that can be tripping up the menu in my player, but I thought I'd mention it in case.

TIA for any ideas.

-Smokin' T

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01-20-2008, 03:23 PM	#3
Smokin' T Member Member since:Jan 2008 Blu-ray reviews:3	I've had a Toshiba HD-DVD player for almost a year and recently added a Sony BDP-S300. My first three Blu-ray buys were "Terminator 2," "Tears of the Sun" and "3:10 to Yuma." Th first looked super — as good as any of the HD-DVDs I've seen. "Tears" looked good mainly when viewing the Hawaii locales. Much of the transfer looked dark and not really any clearer than an upconverted SD DVD. It's "3:10" that has me worried. After a very long upload (a number of bars marching by for maybe a minute) it sat still until I pushed "play," then it played through about 8 previews, including an ad for the new "Rambo," and then got stuck on a pre-menu screen that wouldn't give me any options (no written words) and just kept playing the menu music over and over. I tried all the advancing buttons, pushed top menu and pop-up menu and system menu. I stopped it and started it a few times. and even turned off the player and rebooted. A one-in-three chance of problems isn't encouraging. Anyone have any ideas or is it possibly a defective disc rushed into the market to meet demand and plug the new Stallone movie? One other thing I might mention: I have both hi-def players connected to one HDMI input on my Song HD Wega TV by means of a $100 HDMI switcher. I don't see how that can be tripping up the menu in my player, but I thought I'd mention it in case. TIA for any ideas. -Smokin' T

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