Older Lionsgate Titles Won't Play Anymore?

[soxfan5634]

Has anyone else had an issue with this? The only one that doesn't work anymore is Devils Rejects, and I've tried 4 copies of it. It used to work just fine. I know I saw someone else mention it in another thread about Basic Instinct but I wanna see if we can get this solved. The discs I've tried take like 15 min just to load up, then they won't play.

For those who do have the PS3 and some older titles, try them and see if they work.

[nolfoc]

Originally Posted by soxfan5634

Has anyone else had an issue with this? The only one that doesn't work anymore is Devils Rejects, and I've tried 4 copies of it. It used to work just fine. I know I saw someone else mention it in another thread about Basic Instinct but I wanna see if we can get this solved. The discs I've tried take like 15 min just to load up, then they won't play.

For those who do have the PS3 and some older titles, try them and see if they work.

i have no problems on my sony BD550 i actually watched Rambo First Blood Part II last week just fine.. see if theirs a firmware upgrade

[RAZGRIZ-1]

All of my Lionsgate Blu's work fine.

[soxfan5634]

Originally Posted by nolfoc

i have no problems on my sony BD550 i actually watched Rambo First Blood Part II last week just fine.. see if theirs a firmware upgrade

I have the most current firmware. It's strange because I've had a copy of Devils Rejects for years, and just recently it stopped playing. I've exchanged it for 3 different copies now at Wally World, and none of em played. Everything other than that works perfectly. My first thought was that somehow the firmware screwed around with it, but even as i downloaded the newest, it still wouldn't work. So i have no idea why this one movie wont play anymore.

[Marine Mike]

I've had this problem before. To fix it I replaced the laser in my PS3.

[nolfoc]

Originally Posted by soxfan5634

I have the most current firmware. It's strange because I've had a copy of Devils Rejects for years, and just recently it stopped playing. I've exchanged it for 3 different copies now at Wally World, and none of em played. Everything other than that works perfectly. My first thought was that somehow the firmware screwed around with it, but even as i downloaded the newest, it still wouldn't work. So i have no idea why this one movie wont play anymore.

its probably your PS3

[soxfan5634]

Originally Posted by nolfoc

its probably your PS3

Forgot to mention, I tried 2 copies on a friends ps3 as well, same problem. Unless its just a coincidence that both of our ps3's decided to go "bad" at the exact same time and stop reading this one movie...its just hard to make sense of it, because it works perfectly otherwise.

[TheWildWhelk]

No problems with the region-free rambo Trilogy (i.e the original BD releases). Was going to say that Terminator 2 Skynet Edition takes blasted ages to load, but that's from Optimum in the UK, and not Lionsgate.

[Wingman1977]

A while back, Lord of war just stopped playing (and never started up anymore). I then repurchased it and it replacement is fine. Now, King of NY and Total Recall won't play either (and they are both Lionsgate films). Not to mention Reservior dogs won't play on my PS3 (but runs on my Sony BDP-S570 but that BD player is another story). Do films from this studio have a expiration date or what (thankfully, my other Lionsgate films run fine, for now)?

[walmat]

Originally Posted by Wingman1977

A while back, Lord of war just stopped playing (and never started up anymore). I then repurchased it and it replacement is fine. Now, King of NY and Total Recall won't play either (and they are both Lionsgate films). Not to mention Reservior dogs won't play on my PS3 (but runs on my Sony BDP-S570 but that BD player is another story). Do films from this studio have a expiration date or what (thankfully, my other Lionsgate films run fine, for now)?

I've got all the Rambos and Total Recall and all play on the PS3 without any issues. You probably have bad discs and bad luck unfortunately.
Just tru replacing them and good luck.

[Momscameltoe]

I had a similar problem with a Sharp BD player. A couple of movies just stopped working. I ended up just resetting the player to the last update. After that all affected movies worked with no problems. I hope this will help you. Good luck.

[Clark Kent]

Those are old Blu-rays. There have been reports of early Fox and Disney discs going bad, even though they once played fine. It happens sporadically, but it looks like the Blu-ray manufacturers had not perfected the production process in those early releases.

[Wingman1977]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Those are old Blu-rays. There have been reports of early Fox and Disney discs going bad, even though they once played fine. It happens sporadically, but it looks like the Blu-ray manufacturers had not perfected the production process in those early releases.

Well, I'm going to go through all my Disney and Fox BD's just to make sure they all play fine and post my results. I'm just going to replace King of NY and Total Recall (which is what I exactly did with Lord of War). I won't replace Reservior dogs since it does work (even though it doesn't play on my PS3 but did work on my BDP-S570 which I'm junking and I'm planning to replace it with the OPPO BDP-93 but that's another story).

[Wingman1977]

Well, I checked all of my Disney (Miramax as well since they are part of Buena Vista which is part of Disney), 20th century Fox (and MGM since they are part of FOX) bu-ray movies and they all loaded up with out a problem. Only King of New York, Lord of War (which I had a issue a long time ago which has been replaced a long time ago but it's still working) and Total Recall which are Lionsgate movies has given me issues.

[AmpilfiedDestruction]

Lionsgate and Ech Bridge Use diffrent Bllu-Ray Disc technology that makes them easy to find in wallmart cheap bin

[john_1958]

Originally Posted by soxfan5634

Has anyone else had an issue with this? The only one that doesn't work anymore is Devils Rejects, and I've tried 4 copies of it. It used to work just fine. I know I saw someone else mention it in another thread about Basic Instinct but I wanna see if we can get this solved. The discs I've tried take like 15 min just to load up, then they won't play.

For those who do have the PS3 and some older titles, try them and see if they work.

I would get a different player something more recent

[KrugStillo]

I had this same problem with The Devil's Rejects and Basic Instinct. I have not repurchased Basic Instinct but I did get another copy of The Devil's Rejects a few months back and low and behold it worked fine right away. I tried to watch it last night and the same crap happened. It starts freezing and breaking up and then it won't work at all. This really sucks because it's one of my favorite films. My last attempt is gonna be the double-feature release of House/Rejects. Hopefully Lionsgate remanufactured the discs and didn't just plop the old ones in the cases. If anyone has already tried this and had any luck please let me know. I won't be able to pick it up for a week or two but I'll respond back with the results when I have them. Sick of this crap already.

[KrugStillo]

One more thing:

My theory is badly manufactured discs. I think there was also a firmware issue with some of these older titles, possibly, but I really think it was a very large batch of badly replicated discs. Some may work longer than others and maybe some will never have problems but that's my theory. As long as Lionsgate represses most of these discs we'll be fine but trying to find the new ones is tricky as I found out with The Devil's Rejects.

[cajundoc]

Originally Posted by soxfan5634

Has anyone else had an issue with this? The only one that doesn't work anymore is Devils Rejects, and I've tried 4 copies of it. It used to work just fine. I know I saw someone else mention it in another thread about Basic Instinct but I wanna see if we can get this solved. The discs I've tried take like 15 min just to load up, then they won't play.

For those who do have the PS3 and some older titles, try them and see if they work.

I don't understand it either. Other blueray's play fine. ANYONE with new info??? doesn't seem to be a firmware issue... laser seems to play other discs just fine.

[dudley76]

Originally Posted by soxfan5634

Has anyone else had an issue with this? The only one that doesn't work anymore is Devils Rejects, and I've tried 4 copies of it. It used to work just fine. I know I saw someone else mention it in another thread about Basic Instinct but I wanna see if we can get this solved. The discs I've tried take like 15 min just to load up, then they won't play.

For those who do have the PS3 and some older titles, try them and see if they work.

Yes. My First Blood Blu-Ray hasn't worked for 2 years. Multiple players. Not sure if I should get another copy at this point.