Samsung BD-2550/BD-P2500 Master Thread - Page 175

Can anyone tell me how to view Closed Captions on the NETFLIX TV shows and movies? The sub-title button (under the B button) did not seem to work.

v/r,
C-F

No I have not tried that movie.


From here

Netflix Closed Caption and Subtitles explanation

Have you turned off the 24 fps playback? Any time I have trouble with this player the 24 fps is the root of all my evils. For example, the 24 fps has been the reason the player keeps stopping after every chapter change.

Most recently, when I updated to the new 2.5 firmware, it will not play any blu-ray discs when I have the 24 fps enabled (pathetic, considering my KURO supports 24 fps playback and was one of the main reasons I bought this player). So, in order to play ANY blu-ray I have to turn off the 24 fps setting, turn the player off, and turn it back on before it will accept a blu-ray disc.

This is so odd because I have never had this issue with my 2550. I've owned this player since the first week it was out in August and have never had a playback issue of any kind. I just wonder if something changed in these players from the first run.

Has anyone else had problems getting Universal movies with BD live to log into BD live on my p2500. I can get any other studio to work, but none of my Universal movies to work. I have about 6 uni. BD live movies and none of them work. They load on my ps3 and my p1500. The movies themselves play fine but no BD live. any suggestions?

Thanks for the opinion. I checked my receiver this weekend and it does not have the ability to adjust the levels with analog inputs. I really noticed the difference when I was watching Lord of the Rings. The sound levels were way off, expecially my center channel. I'm going to leave both analog and digital connect to my receiver and switch it when I watch Blu Ray and regular DVD's.

Sheesh...what a pain.

I have had my player for a few months with no problems. However, in the past few weeks, I have been watching certain blu-ray discs and the movie just stops after 40-50 minutes of watching. The problem discs, so far, have been "Burn After Reading" "Nights of Rodanthe" (I was glad it stopped working for Nights), and "Forbidden Kingdom." I haven't tried watching anything else on it since. Samsung advised that there is some new firmware that is about to be released, but until then, the player will not function. This seems incorrect to me. Has anyone else had a problem like this?

I rent movies from Blockbuster and I've had a bad batch of movies that couldn't play right. I tested it on my computer's blu ray drive and get the same thing so it's definitely the disc. Supposedly blu ray discs are more durable than dvds, but I haven't found that to be the case. Are you using rentals? I wonder if that's what's causing your problems.

I had it off. Then tried it on, no luck.

Ditto, worked fine for about 2 months, then started showing problems--though in my case, it's pretty much all blu-rays we have; Wall-E, Independence Day, X-Men III--all tried in the past 3 days, all freeze at different (and multiple) spots requiring power-down and restarting, and it's been getting more and more frequent (i.e. at first it was after 40-60 minutes, then about 30, now down to 20--and it's not the same spot on the same disc after I take it out, restart the movie, etc.). I tried the reset via power and FF button trick--no dice. I thought maybe it was an over-heating problem, but my rack has an open back, I have played it with the front glass doors wide open, there's at least 6 inches of clearance on the sides/top, and the fan on the unit is definitely working. Plus, it worked like a champ for the 2 months prior and the temperature in our room hasn't changed.

FWIW, the random freeze issue on the 2500/2550 came up with quite a few hits on Google--I'm just inside the 90-day labor warranty period so mine is going in tomorrow (maybe I'll get the new firmware you mention?) just to be safe.

I`m calling about mine now as it's doing the SAME THING yours is it sounds like. Started out doing it halfway through then 20min now right off the bat on EVERY darn movie.

For installation via USB thumb drive..see this page

However, it is not yet found with the system update from within the player's setup menu.

It only mentions "improves playback compatibility..." in the change log.

HOPE that fixes my problem.

Gonna wait tell I can click, update, and it updates. Can't find USB drive!

I just installed 2.6 with no problems. I'd just recently had a glitch with the Ghostbusters Blu-Ray...the menu would barely work and looked in slow motion. 2.6 just cleared that up so it works fine. I guess that was a playability issue that was fixed.

Its supposed to work, but in my case it didn't. "Shoot Em Up" is a good reference movie because it does not contain any other soundtracks other than DTS-MA 7.1. (The movie itself is only okay) You can pick it up usually for $10-15 from WalMart.

Completed the 2.6 FW this morning with no problems... everything seems to be functioning normally but I haven't had a chance to test everything. I don't know if its me or if anybody else has noticed this with the latest FW but it seems to me that whites are a little more white than they were before on this player. If this is the case then its a good thing because at times (especially during a credit roll) I found the white range to be a little murky at times.

Thank you.

v/r,
C-F

Ethernet upgrade for v2.6 is now detected and worked fine.

I agree, whites seem whiter, in general. Also, slow pans are smoother for several Blu-Rays (1080/24p) and DVD's (1080/60p), all other settings remaining constant.

This is on a Samsung LN52-A650 (FW 2008.9) with film modes off and AMP set to either medium or high. Pans are jerky with AMP set to off, low, or auto. AMP set to medium looks good most of the time...

In a nutshell, so far so good with this release. Motion and whites now seem better on my setup when compared to v2.5

So what does the new firmware do? My 2500 is downloading it now....

Any issues with Netflix or Pandora with the new firmware 2.6?

You got the exact same set-up as I do. Got the TV in Oct and the Blu-ray Feb....

Hello Samsung BD-P2550/2500 owners.

I currently own a Samsung BD-P1200 and it's been a very reliable device. I especially like the fact that it uses the HQV/Reon chip. In my eperience, it's only shortcoming was the fact that it could not decode hi-rez audio of any type.
I really feel that I am missing out the best available audio. So I just purchased a Sony BDPS550. Why? Because it decodes DTS-HD/MA and can send it via LPCM to my HDMI-less Marantz SR9300. I was considering the BD-P2550 but, due to the fact that I was under the impression that it was unable to decode DTS-HD/MA, I opted not too.

I was just informed by a poster that the 2550 can internally decode DTS-HD/MA. Is there a new firmware update available that enables theis function in the 2550/2500? Can someone clear this up for me?

Thanks.
Regards.

Any of the Updates since Jan (version 2.4 I believe) will include the DTS-HD/MA. We just had another update this morning (this unit does tell you when a new update is present as long as its connected to the net).

If you are interested in this machine you may want to act fast as its already been replaced by Samsung's BD-P3600 which does not have the HQV chip.

This is a post on how to resolve the issue where you try to play a Netflix movie on your Samsung BD-P2500 Bluray player but receive the "Netlfix keys have been hacked" message. I realize that there are instructions already posted in several places, but for my player I was unable to restore the default factory settings via a hard reset (holding the fast-forward [FF] key on the player for 5 seconds when there is no disc in the player.) For some reason this did not work for me at all and so I had to find another method.

1. Deactivate your BD-P2500 player on your Netflix account.
2. Download the latest firmware update from Samsung's support site. (http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do...el_nm=BD-P2500) The latest version as of 2009-06-30 was version 2.6, a file called 090622_01_BDP2500_XAA_ISO.zip.
3. Create a firmware update CD or create the firmware update on a USB drive.
4. Install the latest firmware on your BD-P2500 player.
5. Go into Menu | Setup and re-enter the settings you had previously. (The firmware update will have set the player back to the default factory settings.)
6. Go into Menu | Netflix. It will walk you through the standard Netflix streaming setup. At the end of this process you will need to reactivate your player on the Netflix website.

This resolved the issue and allowed me to view Netflix streaming content on my player. It's worth mentioning that I do not believe that the firmware update itself actually fixed the bug about Netflix keys have been hacked. For me the firmware update simply allowed me to restore the default factory settings (i.e., clear the on-board memory) because the method of holding down the FF key for 5 seconds with no disc didn't work on my player.

Notes:
The reason I had to go through the #2, #3, and #4 steps instead of just Menu | Setup | System Settings | System Update is that there was another bug with my player. When I tried doing Menu | Setup | System Settings | System Update it failed saying "Please maintain No Disc' state for network update" even though I did not have a disc in the tray. If you do not encounter this error then you can obviously avoid the manual firmware update and just use System Update.
If you are unfamiliar with how to burn an ISO file to a CD then step #3 can be a little tricky. Lifehacker has a good post on how to do this for Mac users.

Yes, as of January 2009. Now the problem is finding a player (they've been discontinued).

downloaded v2.6 via player's (2550) network port. No problems.

I had the freezing problem with DVDs and the one BluRay disc I own. I sent mine to Samsung for repair (just inside of the 90 days) and got it back last week. I've watched two rental DVDs from Netflix, both scratched, without any issues. They did not indicate what the fix was.

I downloaded the new firmware and the player is still freezing. 24 fps is off. Anyone have any other suggestions before I send it back?

I'd try formatting your flash memory. It won't hurt anything.