SONY BDP-S301 Freezes

[CtotheP]

Originally Posted by rserkes

The Netflix rental that prompted me to take back the second unit wasn't a Blu-Ray, just a good old fashioned SD. For that matter, the disk that prompted me to take back the first unit was also SD. Not that the Blu-Ray disks played without problems, because they didn't. They would skip and pixilate. Your explanation of how Netflix makes so many copies still holds true. I just want a player that can handle less-than-pristine disks and the BDP-S301 doesn't see to fit that bill.

While I'm deciding what to do I've been using my old SD player and it hasn't choked on a Netflix disk yet.

I would agree, my BDP-S500 was only freezing on Netflix Blu-rays until I got the standard definition version of There Will Be Blood. (I disabled the BR option in my Netflix account while I figure out the freezing issue). The SD disc froze about 65 minutes into the movie. At that point, I knew something was wrong. I just sent it back to Sony Support Tuesday. We'll see.

[SquidPuppet]

Sorry to hear about these problems. I have had the 301 since November and average 18 discs (bd/sd) from Netflix per month. Not one freeze, and some of them have been really scratched.

Could it be a heat issue? Got it well ventilated?

[rserkes]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Sorry to hear about these problems. I have had the 301 since November and average 18 discs (bd/sd) from Netflix per month. Not one freeze, and some of them have been really scratched.

Could it be a heat issue? Got it well ventilated?

I don't think it was a heat issue but I can't be certain. It sat in a bookshelf with 3"-4" free on each side, about 4" on top and maybe 2" in the back.