James Bond BDs

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So.... I splashed out on the boxed bunch o'blues yesterday. A cool £79 for 6 Bonds. They wouldn't play! The menu launches (slowly), I select start (or the chapter), the screen goes to black and freezes. Arrggh!!
All my other BDs play fine (I have 91).
Anybody else had a problem?

 

[Andy Clough]

Not at this end. Strange.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll take 'em back to HMV. Gotta be the discs and not the player, right?

 

[Andy Clough]

No idea. See your Blu-ray players is one of the earlier ones, although that shouldn't be a problem. Let us know how you get on when you've swapped the discs.

 

[Andrew Everard]

I seem to recall somewhere that the Sharp did have some freezing issues with some discs. It might be worth checking with Sharp that you have the latest firmware installed in the player.

Wasn't there a problem some time ago with some of the Bond DVDs freezing with some players, due to firmware/standards issues? Could it be that the BD authoring people have been a bit too clever with their menu systems again?

Just a thought...

 

[Anonymous]

91 blu-rays! I didn't even think that many had been released.

 

[Anonymous]

Casca: All my other BDs play fine (I have 91). Can I have them when you have watched them? Please?

Boo

 

[Anonymous]

I have also just bought the boxset from Zavvi and they refuse to play on my less than one year old Sony S300 machine. I get the menus but any selection made just loops with the graphics and music. All my other Blu Rays play just fine. Anyone with ideals as to if the Disks are useless?

 

[Anonymous]

Similar issue but my player is a less than 1 year old Sony S300

 

[Anonymous]

They play OK (though perhaps load a tad slowly) on my Sony 350.(updated to Profile 2).....also fine and quicker on my PS3......my guess is its a firmware issue?

 

[Anonymous]

ANy ideal what the latest version of firmware should be? Its as it came out of the box from Richer Sounds.

 

[Anonymous]

Just checked my SOny S300 and its on Version 3.20 of firmware, I see sony website has a version 4.20 to download. A job for the morning I think before I made a trip to Zavvi for a £ 85 refund request

 

[Anonymous]

Cheers Andrew. I've just spoken to Sharp (answered in two rings!) and they confirm that there's an issue with these particular discs. They're working on a firmware upgrade as we speak and will call me and confirm when it's ready, and then ship it out to me. Within the week, they say. Very helpful and efficient service staff.

 

[Anonymous]

My issue with them on a Sony player was also firmware and Sony had a new version on their site for download. I played samples of the disks today to make sure its all ok and it was. Except none of the disk have the Resume facility so when you press Stop in middle of film it goes right back to the start procedure. All very boring, when will Hadware and Software manufacturers talk to each other I wonder.

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a quote about the Dr No BD:

Upon loading, the disc prompts a BD-Live network connection for no particular reason. There is no BD-Live content on the disc. The Blu-ray is Java-enabled and very slow to load in a standalone BD player. At the time of this writing, many standalone players are having problems loading the disc at all. Several manufacturers have released or announced impending firmware updates to resolve playback problems with this first wave of Bond titles. Fortunately, the Sony Playstation 3 and the Panasonic DMP-BD50 used for this review are unaffected; both play the disc without issue.

Bums!!

 

[Clare Newsome]

Bluescrazy:My issue with them on a Sony player was also firmware and Sony had a new version on their site for download. I played samples of the disks today to make sure its all ok and it was. Except none of the disk have the Resume facility so when you press Stop in middle of film it goes right back to the start procedure. All very boring, when will Hadware and Software manufacturers talk to each other I wonder.

Especially ironic considering Sony owns the MGM archive - including all the Bond movies.

OK, Fox has distribution rights for the discs, but it still amuses and infuriates me in equal measure....

Bond Blu-rays play fine on all our reference Award-winning kit here, BTW (eg PS3. Pioneer, Panasonic, Denon)

 

[D.J.KRIME]

It is issues like this that are stopping the masses adopting BD, that and the prices of the discs!

 

[Anonymous]

I agree. It's VERY stupid. Especially as the Bonds are MGM's only cash cow.
Does anybody know what the actual problem is? What is it about these particular discs that's such a challenge for standalone/older players?

 

[professorhat]

D.J.KRIME:It is issues like this that are stopping the masses adopting BD, that and the prices of the discs!
Just as a similar furore picked up by the media came about with DVD and The Matrix release. All got sorted in the end though.

 

[Anonymous]

My firmware disc arrived from Sharp. It loaded easily and the discs now play. Thanks Sharp.
Watched 'Dr No' last night. Wow!! Simply stunning - apart from one very dodgy overly-electronically restored shot.
They are an irritating set of discs, though. They take FOREVER to load, and the same again when you *** (or rather shuffle slowly) into the extras. There actually was time to go and make a cup of tea and bake a cake.......

 

[VoodooDoctor]

Is there any news on the release dates for the second and third Blu-ray boxsets? The US seems to have had the second for a while.