Bond Blu-rays won't play!

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by markjdye

I just received all six reissues from Amazon and the only titles that will play are Live And Let Die and From Russia With Love. Two of them never make it to the menu and the other two get stuck after pushing "Initiate Mission". I checked and my Sony BDP-S1 is up to date with 4.10 firmware. Any suggestions?

burn down fox! they found a new button in their authoring program
could not figure what it did but pushed it anyway. don't worry i got a bad
die hard 2 from them only been 8 months i still hold out hope of getting a replacement next year

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by markjdye

Thanks! The cold boot worked! They're all playing now.

Thats good to hear. Hopefully there isn't an issue with the PS3.

[Zman2k2]

Originally Posted by Zombie B0yy

okay im following the instructions to download the firmware
and it says that the file is 54,512,128 bytes.
however, when i download the file, it says the file is 54, 829, 864 bytes....

is this a problem?

Yes, that's a problem. What you need to do is an ISO burn of the file. Not all burner programs can do ISO burns though. If yours can't, download CDBurnerXP, and use that to make an ISO burn of the file.

[big-bleu]

Originally Posted by markjdye

Thanks! The cold boot worked! They're all playing now.

if i buy 4 your eyes only again i'll try the cold boot

[Bond007]

I've had no problems with them on my PS3

[greyrocket]

yeah i bought all six and i had no problems with them playing on my ps3

[Lucy Diamond]

I watched Live and Let Die in my stand alone lastnight because my PS3 was updating my Eye of Judgement game (it has been months and there were 2500 files it needed.) and it was fine for most of the movie until I had to stop it to watch True Blood.

When I started playback, it froze....BAD. Then I got it to start again and selected the scene where I left off and it locked up again. I didn't need the emergency power boot trick, I just stopped it and ejected it and got it going again.

No problems with the PS3 though. I had no idea when I threw in Eye Of Judgement that it would take so long to update...it was crazy.

[Switchblade9]

Bill Hunt at The Digital Bits addressed this issue last week. Apparently there are playback problems on all of the Bond discs. Manufacturers are scrambling to get firmware updates out: Sony's is expected by the middle of this week. I have a S300 and had a hell of time getting From Russia With Love and Thunderball to play, but they finally did. I will try the cold reboot and see if that helps; if not I'll just wait for the firmware up date.


Update: Ok...I did a cold reboot and it helped...a little. The disc loads and gets to the main menu much faster, but it still won't play when I hit "Initiate Mission." I'll try another reboot and see if I can get that to clear up. Otherwise...its wait for Sony.

[markjdye]

Try leaving the disc in the player when you unplug it. Then turn it on and let it auto-load the disc.

[Switchblade9]

Sony today posted the newest firmware update for the S300: It's version 4.30. I downloaded it and updated my machine and now the Bond films play just fine. So if you are having problems and you have an S300 go to Sony's site and download the new firmware and you should be good to go instead of shaken not stirred!

[neos_peace]

what can we say PS3 (us owners of them) it rocks. they should make all standalones viable like the ps3.

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by markjdye

I just received all six reissues from Amazon and the only titles that will play are Live And Let Die and From Russia With Love. Two of them never make it to the menu and the other two get stuck after pushing "Initiate Mission". I checked and my Sony BDP-S1 is up to date with 4.10 firmware. Any suggestions?

I have the same problem with my BDP-S1 and had to cold boot it to work. The player also freezes up at inopportune moments during movie playback; it just happened while I was playing "Dr. No", but this has been a problem the entire time I have owned it, regardless of upgrade versions. If I can get a decent player for cheap on Black Friday, someone can have this POS for free!

[rlf3911]

Originally Posted by neos_peace

what can we say PS3 (us owners of them) it rocks. they should make all standalones viable like the ps3.

+1

My bond films play perfectly....

[MarshallMan]

Originally Posted by Switchblade9

Sony today posted the newest firmware update for the S300: It's version 4.30. I downloaded it and updated my machine and now the Bond films play just fine. So if you are having problems and you have an S300 go to Sony's site and download the new firmware and you should be good to go instead of shaken not stirred!

+1 - Downloaded v4.30 too and mine play fine too.

[fletchlives]

+2 Bond's are good to go with 4.30 if you have a s-300. Watching For Your Eyes Only now since that seemed to be most people's problem disc and it's perfect.

[Digital-Man]

I have the Sony BDP-S300 with version 4.20 firmware and Thunderball plays fine. I downloaded the firmware from Blu-ray.com at the top of the page. There are several players' firmware for downloading.

[markjdye]

I just downloaded and installed 4.20 for my Sony BDP-S1 and ALL the Bond movies now play perfectly. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jaguar007]

Still anxiously waiting for Samsung to offer a new firmware for the 1400 so I can watch FYEO

[TheWidowsSon]

Originally Posted by Jaguar007

Still anxiously waiting for Samsung to offer a new firmware for the 1400 so I can watch FYEO

I hope you're not holding your breath.

[bds59]

I just bought Dr No and Thunderball last night, having trouble with Dr No, got it to play last night but couldn't get it to play today, but Thunderball is playing fine right now. Going to do firmware upgrade first, was thinking about taking it back for a new copy since Thunderball is playing fine.