BD-UP5000 problem discs - Page 9

^Thanks.

Meh, continual discoveries like these make me pause when considering snatching up bargain imports.

I can confirm that the Harold & Kumar sequel (Hollywood Video rental) has audio dropouts throughout the movie (some repeatable, some not, with more near the end than the beginning). Those who didn't hear these, I suspect, have analog connections (feel free to correct me if that is a mistaken assumption). I also got one error when using the branching feature where the sound went to static and the only way to get it to return was to power cycle the 5000...just another random software bug that required certain conditions to be met before manifesting. Using the feature after that power cycle, it played well enough (mirroring Ph8te's experience).


No one has reported any problems with Doomsday prior to your fast forwarding lockup discovery on The Hunt for Red October as far as I know (just trying to clarify here as Doomsday is a Universal, not Paramount, title released on July 29).

Thanks for clarifying.

Re: H&K2, I really think the audio dropouts were down to the somewhat buggy state of the disc in the 5000. There was another point in my testing of the disc that the "special features" menu was not revealing all the available choices and I had to reload the menu to get them back. Rambo, another New Line title, had menu glitches as well. Prior to this disc, I had watched 3 Sony titles and one New Line (Bank Job) without any menu or audio hitches.

Part of that menu vanished and became inaccessible only once, didn't repeat.

Also, I was confused. Rambo is Lionsgate, not New Line. egads.

Good news, HD 335! Hopefully, the 7-29 discs represent a fluke that will be corrected (this month? :/).

I also rented Doomsday (for free, glad to have not paid for this nonsense) and had flawless playback. This was my first experience with Universal Blu and I was pleased with the menu response, including that of U-Control.

Here's a disc I haven't seen any complaints about yet: Deja Vu. I watched this rental tonight and had 4-5 glitchy areas where the video/sound stuttered momentarily but the player recovered immediately and the disc played on. On repeated playback of these sections (sorry, didn't note timestamps), the video played just fine but I could hear an audio glitch (a click/pop) in the same location. I'm guessing (hoping) it's just a problem with this particular pressing.

nope, middle to latter half.

Temporary solution: Disable on-screen messages in the setup menu. Known bug.

interesting that no one's caught these Deja Vu problems before. When I tried replicating, there was no skip, pause or even audio dropout...just an audible "click" in the exact place where the player stuttered on the initial run.

^As you may have seen over at HDD (or here), there is a volume differentiation between the two (TrueHD being louder)...on top of that, the bass is apparently channeled to the .1 channel more so in the TrueHD encode. It's not an ideal comparison unfortunately...especially not enough for me to double dip with this mediocre movie.