New Line to release " Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" on July 29 - Page 5

There is no more New Line.

I am in contact with Warner Brothers about this. It is not resolved at this time, and I will update this thread when I get information.

I know what is causing this, and firmware will not fix the issue. The disc's must be redone.

This will affect all players and processors decoding DTS-HD MA.

Short answer.. use the core track output, either by turning bitstreaming off of using a coax/optical output.

If they decide to re-press the disc after the issue is fixed, I will let you know via this thread.

Awesome...thanks for the info....worked for me too.

Spoke to WB last week.. they are working on it.

So expect a double dip that replaces DTS MA 7.1 with 640K DD.

(Rented from NetFlix) can not play disc in PS3
Error:
This video cannot be played
(80029940)

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Tried cleaning the disc. All other discs play fine.

Anyone else have this prob. or did I just get a bad disc?

Look at the outer edge of the disc, you might see a chip or a hairline crack. This is unfortunately a somewhat common problem with Netflix/Blockbuster discs shipped through the mail.

The mail sorting machine cracks or chips the disc, rendering it unplayable.

Yes it has a pretty bad scratch on the outer edge. I got it to play by hitting triangle and "play from beginning" but once it hit about 59 mins it skipped badly, about 30 mins of the movie was not playable. I'll send it back with a note on it.

It's rare but it does happen. I've gotten probably 1-2 bad discs from Netflix out of the hundreds I rented.

FilmMixer, I appreciate your help in this and other disc matters. Hopefully Warner Bros. will continue to work on the issues with the disc and make sure we all receive free replacement discs.

Someone in another thread posted a website that is supposed to assist in making quality blu-ray players and disc. Here is the link. I'm going to give them a jingle tomorrow about this disc and several others. Wonder how they let these problems slip through. Guess they need to do a better job. Another place to voice our concerns.

http://www.blufocus.com/

I expect to hear from WB about this very soon... they are aware of the how and why it happened, and how to fix it...

When I found out why this is an issue, it lead me to believe that this is one of the unfortunate things that fell through the cracks as New Line was being dismantled..

Thanks again for all your information and help. I did call blufocus today and they ask people email any problems until their website has consumer reporting available on their site. My biggest issue is with Fox, it's almost 1 yr. since DieHard 2 and still no fix from Fox. The man I spoke to at blufocus was surprised to hear about the problem so I'm not sure they will be much help, but I'll send them an email anyhow.

I wish I would have read this before I rented it the other day. I wondered what the hell was wrong. Pops every 7-10 minutes of the movie.
Im running a sony bd 350 to an Onkyo 606 7.1 setup.

Even if one placess an e-mail or phone call it will fall on deaf ears. I don't even know who or where to call.
I've had three poppers, including last night viewing this disc and movie for the first time.

Rented the BD from Netflix.

Receiver: Denon AVR-3808ci
Blu-Ray Player: Panasonic DMP-BD35K

Using bitstreamed audio, DTS-HD MA in this instance.

Popped in the disc, started watching. Got absolutely horrific distortion and excessive volume out of my rear speakers during the introduction logos followed by loud background noise and no center channel output during the film. Tried changing to a different audio track but DTS-HD MA was forced.

Tried a Finding Nemo DVD in my BD player to confirm that my player and receiver could still parse 5.1, which went fine.

Then played The Incredible Hulk BD (DTS-HD MA), which also went fine.

Updated the BD player to the latest firmware revision, still no dice with Harold & Kumar.

Changed the audio from bitstream to player decoding and watched in DTS. The audio was mostly fine this way, but I too experienced lots of popping.

This is the only disc I've encountered that had either the distortion/center or the popping issue. Has anyone else experienced the former on this or others?

You need to do an ethernet firmware update on the Denon 3808... this is a well documented issue with 7.1 DTS-HD MA tracks playing back on 5.1 systems that was fixed with firmware a long time ago.

The popping on the tracks, which is a separate issue, cannot be solved until WB issues a new disc.

Any word on when this may happen?

I heard this only happens when the 7.1 track is played?

More precisely the DTS-HD MA track... the DTS core plays fine.


Not as of yet.

Afraid to watch this again coz it might damage my speakers.

Than watch in 5.1.

FilmMixer, any word on disc replacement or should we just give up at this point?

I'm dealing with WB on another title at this point, but I think it's give up time... they don't seem to be moving on it.

Do you know if any of the more newly made discs still have the same problem?

As far as I know, the fix would require a re-authoring including a re-encode.

Which has not been done to my knowledge.

For anyone interested since FilmMixer wasn't able to get anywhere with Warner Brothers I called and received an email from Sherri Bogard at Warner Brothers regarding the issue with this disc. She said she confirmed with "her tech people" the issue is with my hardware, not the disc. In order for the popping not to occur to have the blu-ray player do the decoding, which my DMP-BD30 doesn't do. This is the work around for the problem with the disc. I supplied her with my invoice for the disc (which I had purchased from the Warner Brothers home video site) and asked to be reimbursed for the purchase price. If she will do it I will post again.

The PS3 does the decoding internally and it still happens. It's not a hardware issue.

I know it isn't, you know it isn't, FilmMixer knows it isn't, everyone on this thread knows it isn't but Warner Brothers doesn't. They think we're all idiots who don't know anything. It really irks me to no end. Here is her response to my email to her:

"I am sorry to hear that your player is unable to do this. Normally, because the disc is not defective, I could not offer a refund, but I will go ahead and do this for you as a one-time courtesty only. Please note you will need to return the disc back to me before I can send you the refund. You can send it to me at:

Sherri Bogard
Warner Home Video
4000 Warner Blvd.
Building 160 Room 11-139
Burbank, CA 91522"

Anyone else wants to call them and deal with it be my guest. I emailed her back and told her as soon as they send me a postage paid return label I am more than happy to return the disc.

Addendum: I emailed her back to call her out on it. I let her know what you said stumlad. It's like that movie where the guy says "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
I'm fed up with studios and companies like Onkyo saying there isn't a problem or blaming it on something else. And they wonder why more people don't spend their hard earned money on the technology. This is a prime example.

Addendum #2 She is sending me a postage paid label to return the disc.

Is there still no reasonable solution to this issue?

Update--I filled in the customer service form on WB web site after my original post--I just got an e-mail from Sherri asking for my address so they can send prepaid label for me to return my disc so they can send a replacement. Do they even have a remastered version of this disc?