Hello-

I just watched Die Hard on my Samsung BD-P1000, the first recent Fox title I have played. The movie played flawlessly on the Samsung, which has the firmware update from November 2007. It did take over a minute to display video, which I assume is normal for these new titles (BD-J or BD+, whichever takes the extra time now). What did surprise me was that the menu animations are very slow and maybe jerky motion as well. I am referring to changing among the four main menu options, or the speed to see further options when some of those main choices are selected. I would like to know if the slowness is only because of my first-generation player, or if everyone (including PS3 owners) sees the same thing? Thank you.

Look for a firmware update.

The same was true on the Sony BDP-S1 prior to Sony releasing firmware update 3.20; I suspect Samsung's likely released an update as well.

java is a total joke, slow on everything, even the fastest BD player the Panny BD30

-Gary

Java is not a joke but using it for wrong reasons is the biggest joke.

Extremely slow frustrating menus...:(

I have a PS3 and its fast, but I can see how it would be slow on stand alones.

I have experienced the same thing with my Samsung 1400 with the Nov firmware update. Very disappointing, but at least the movie plays fine.

The menu navigation was quite fast in my PS3 except for the remote command direction. When you press up arrow the feature on the top is brought down which is quite strange.

I noticed on my Philips (running Sammy 1000 firmware) that DH3's menu was a little faster than the other three films - for whatever reason.

Thank you all for the responses. At least I know it is not unique to the BD-P1000.
The menu navigation was quite fast in my PS3 except for the remote command direction. When you press up arrow the feature on the top is brought down which is quite strange.
That weird behavior is part of the problem. The "rotating ring of options" does not respond in a logical way (to me at least), so I get the wrong option. Now the one I wanted is two steps away, and it takes "forever" to go around two more steps. ("Forever" is really only maybe 6-7 seconds total, of course. :) )

The PS3 brings the sub-menus in less than 2 seconds. I think it's yet another unwise usage of BD-J by Fox.

java is a total joke, slow on everything, even the fastest BD player the Panny BD30

-Gary

I agree with Gary. On my Samsung 1000, very slow almost hard to navigate, but atleast it plays. On my Panasonic bd30, very fast!

Imagine if we had one hidef format that had the best of Blu Ray & HD-DVD. Use the capacity of Blu and it's hard coating to protect discs, combined with HD-DVD's menu and network features. Ah! I'm dreaming again!