New Line to release " Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" on July 29 - Page 2

Yep, they are repeatable in the same spots. It's pretty bad and annoying.

Well, I just game to see who else was getting the annoying popping on the PS3 with the DTS MA track. Guess I am not alone. Maybe I'll try it on the S350 later to see if it's still there.

Anyone else get the pops on something other than the PS3?

i'm getting the popping as well, ps3 to denon 2807

Please post times... sorry to hear about the issues, but glad some of you are enjoying it...

I'm ticked that the digital copy doesn't work with macs. Every digital copy I have come across had an itunes option.

Warner and New Line digital copies are Mac unfriendly, just an FYI.

Yeah you can go back to certain spots and repeat them...pretty bad viewing experience.

glad im not the only one. I came here hoping others were experiencing the same popping noise, but no audio dropouts, just the random pops during the same scenes.

Once again, some spots/times/scenes would be helpful in getting this resolved.

I just finished watching the first film on BD and it is easily the worst BD experience I have had. The picture was completely devoid of detail. I have DVDs that look better.

I can give you the scene I used as my "test" scene to determine whether it's repeatable or not since it's the one I recall the best. It does happen about every 15 minutes throughout the entire movie, though.

There is a scene a little over an hour into the movie where Kumar's love interest is looking through pictures of Kumar and herself while sitting on a bed. One of the loud pops occurs while she is looking at the pictures.

Just went to double-check - the scene starts around the 1:05 mark. I went to it on my 2nd PS3 which is not outputting audio over HDMI and can confirm the pop does not occur when extracting the 1.5mbps core. Just DTS-MA.

This issue has me thinking twice about opening up my copy. Has anyone tried this after updating to 2.42, which was released overnight?

My Netflix copy of White Castle arrived yesterday. I watched the first hour and stopped it about an hour in and went immediately to Hastings and purchased it. I hadn't seen this film before but I absolutely loved it. Now, I'm trying to decide on a blind buy of it's sequel as Netflix says long wait as usual.

Tom

I'd wait for Netflix. Watched the 2nd one last night (HD PPV) and it was pretty bad. Rent from Netflix then make your decision.

I updated to 2.42 and tried it again - it's still there.

Yep, one scene mentioned above is at 1:05:19 of the movie. Repeated audio pop only with DTS-MA However there are many repeatable spots to get the pop at. Tried with latest firmware and pop is still there.

Btw: Pops are not present with S350 connected to Onkyo 606

I thought the second one was on par with the first if you really liked the first. Maybe not as fresh feeling but I liked it.

As far as the PQ...Looked more than fine on my 52xbr4....

So what's the consensus on this, bitstream the core from the PS3??

it really shouldn't be a big upgrade. Low budget movie with mostly dialog driven.

That is what I was thinking as well, maybe revisit the title once Sony fixes the issue.

I just watched the movie and heard the pops from my PS3 connected to a Onkyo 705 via HDMI. I came here to see if anyone was posting about it and see I'm not alone.

count me in as well. PS3-->Onkyo 606

Does this pop occur with The White Castle BD ? If it occurs I will cancel it asap.

I wish New Line comes up with a replacement program to exchange faulty copies. Pray to God that the replacement disc doesn't feature DD only audio which however plays reliably without pops.

I heard no pops on the White Castle disk.

Thank buddy for the confirmation. Hope that the audio pop problem is fixed through F/W upgrade.

Sounds like that will have to be the solution. None of the reviews I've seen have mentioned this issue, but none of them have used the PS3 as the disc spinner. I guess this is one scenario where the PS3 shows fault in BD playback, hopefully a fix comes quickly and we don't see this happen again.

Nevermind I did find a review that mentions the issue, however claims a bitstream issue with receivers

http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/harol...amo-bay/6147/2

I'm getting the pops as well on a Sony 350 bitstreaming DTS-MA to a Denon 3808.
The first time it happened was @ 11:47 followed by another exactly a minute later @ 12:47. Completely repeatable and at that point I stopped the movie.

This is the first issue I've had with the Denon and DTS-MA.

Hmm so is then actually a problem with the DTS track and not the PS3 decoding. Interesting that this issue has now "popped" up during in player decoding. Pardon the pun.

Actually, what that reviewer is talking about is the issue that some receivers had with certain 7.1 titles in the past with talking the players out of pause and the DTS "bomb", which was solved by upgrading the receivers/pre's firmware.. he doesn't mention pops during playback. And also mentions that he hasn't upgraded his receiver yet..

This appears to be a new and separate issue.. at this point, all fingers point to Sony.

EDIT... Some one is having issues with bitstreaming to an Onkyo 805 from an LG BH200.... I'm forwarding all reports to Sony..