Comments on: Blu-ray player upgrade process is killing the movie watching experience

By: K

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:18:09 +0000

This is the most rediculous thing I have ever experienced. Total BS, it has taken us approx. 30 mins to upgrade, I could seriously hurt someone at this point. Samsung have a lot to answer for? If asked I would not recommend anyone purchase a blue ray player they are crap!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:18:21 +0000

Sean,

That’s not true. Sony pushes out plenty of PS3 updates: http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/SystemUpdates/PS3

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:43:22 +0000

for those of you who are wondering: PS3’s dont need to have software updates…its only the individual blue ray players

By: Jennings

Jennings — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:05:20 +0000

They can’t tell you a valid answer if you don’t tell them the make and model of your player!

By: Crlos Rivera

Crlos Rivera — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:18:42 +0000

I have to upgrade the blu ray player. What is the best way to do it?

By: Michael Whitney

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:35:53 +0000

I have officially abandoned Blu-Ray. I ran into the hell above tonight trying to watch Donnie Darko. To complicate things, I’m a poor Mac user and Sony doesn’t have firmware upgrades that can be downloaded from a Mac. They’re all .exe, even though they’re really just .iso and Macs love .iso. The incredibly long load times, the crappy menus, the unforgiving remotes that stop a movie and force you to wade through 5 minutes of additional load times to get back where you were. Here’s a sign that I’m DONE with Blu-Ray: I set my preference on Netflix back to DVD. I wonder how many people have done that. It would be an interesting figure for Netflix to release…how many people switched their preferences from DVD to Blu-ray, then back to DVD. Sony, you blew it big time (again). You’re done.

By: CN

CN — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:45:36 +0000

Who wants to keep paying for blank media (on which in some places there is a “you are all thieves” levy on) every time their DRM needs fixing?

I thought it was bad enough that some of these players seem to take forever just to turn on and load a disc!

If you are going to have to scour the web for the update, download it, burn it to disc, wait for the update… sheesh! You might as well just download the movie instead. *sigh*

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By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:21:52 +0000

And this is why Blu-Ray is doomed to fail.

Sony did a great job driving HD-DVD out of the market, but unless they can convince customers that Blu-ray is a better and easier alternative to DVDs, and especially downloads, they’ll end up losing this format war in the end.

By: Paul Walker

Paul Walker — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:35:05 +0000

Ironically you wouldn’t have any of these problems if you just downloaded the divx and posted $5 to the studio…

By: griffon

griffon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:49:45 +0000

Seriously, what else would expect from a technology that won based on touting the merits of it’s better (more anti consumer) security and buying media producers rather then listening to consumers.

By: vennessa

vennessa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:46:58 +0000

I have been considering purchasing a blu ray player but now reading this article I don’t think I will at all. I will just stay with the old traditional player rather than as the author put it give the blu ray the old yeller treatement

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:57:59 +0000

I don’t mind so much the difficult upgrading process. The thing I have a problem with is when the firmware causes unintended results and you have no way of rolling back to the previous version. I have a Samsung BDP-1000 and I updated to v1.4 some months ago (so I could watch the unrated version of Hitman). While the upgrade did allow me to watch Hitman, it had the additional consequence of reversing my center channel output to my rear speakers. Essentially all of my Blu-Rays and DVD’s were affected after this update. The problem continues to exist in v1.5 and v1.6, so I had to actually request Samsung to send me v1.3 firmware on a CD to try and resolve the issue (since they also don’t keep previous versions available for download on their website).

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:32:57 +0000

I recently watched the Happening BR on my PS3, which to my knowledge I hadn’t updated in a good while. In fact, I’ve never had this happen with any of the many blu-rays I watched.

God the Happening was bad – and I’m the guy who liked every one of Shyamalan’s movies – even Lady in the Water.

By: theWolf

theWolf — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:46:37 +0000

Consider yourself lucky! That firmware update was at least 100X more entertaining than the movie, The Happening.

By: JOSH

JOSH — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:33:55 +0000

I hope that this issue is isolated to stand alone players. As of yet I havent had a problem playing any Blue-Ray movies on my PS3. However, I totally agree with you Nich. This is BS, as if it’s not enough that their movies cost $20-$60 depending on what you are buying. This is ridiculous and I for one will lead the anti-DRM movement. Everyone follow me ill be the guy holding the mini lighter/LED handgun. More after I jump……