LG BH200 - Known Disc Issues - Page 14

I watched Midnight Meat Train on Monday. The disc spend a lot of time at the loading screen which is very unusual for the BH200 but it did eventually load. Like all Liongates disc I tried you have to hit the >>| key to skip the previews and load the main menu. Again normal operation for Liongates disc. The only problem I had was that neither the Menu or Popup key took me to the main menu or loaded the popup menu like usually all Blu-ray do.

OK, I found a way to get Akira to play in the BH200. Put the disc in and press play. The player will recognize it as a blu ray and sit on a black screen. Hit stop TWICE (make sure it fully stops, not just a pause/stop), then hit the "disc menu" button. This takes you to the menu. From there, you are good to go!

Hi GizmoDVD, one more problematic HD DVD; I have firmware BH02081205A and driver 0702.

• HD DVD : QUEEN Rock Montreal & Live Aid (US edition, UPC 0801213331499) : the initial menu screen is fully green, with no visible video, although sound comes out.
  However, the video is watchable if you select 1080i resolution in the BH-200 setup menu (instead of 1080p, which makes everything go green).

I suppose it could also be some HDMI compatibility issue between the BH-200 and my Yamaha RX-V3800, but in that case, only that HD-DVD triggers it out of 150+ others in my library.
And it is not a bad pressing since Eagle Rock Entertainment kindly provided me with a new copy.

If this works for me, you're welcome to my firstborn child.

You have played 150+ HD DVD's with your BH200 and that is the only one with a problem or the only one with that specific problem? I am sure it is the only one with that specific problem based on this player's overall performance, far more than 1 in 150 don't work properly with this player.

Who knows how much money Samsung and LG have cost the Blu-ray and HD DVD software providers with players that don't play a given disc which is returned just to find the same player can't play the replacement properly either. The problem is always the player, never the disc. I wouldn't blame Samsung and LG if Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic were unable to get the same discs to play, but Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic players play the discs without issue. Those companies seem to have the firmware already available before it is needed with very rare exceptions.

Chris

Great work van der graaf! I just tried your method on the Freedom Blu-ray boxed set discs (hey, they're both Japanese anime, why not? ), and it works!

I wonder if there are other problematic menus that can be worked around using your method? I'm going to try the Kill Bills tonight and see.

Thanks again.

It'll work, I am pretty sure...no first born necessary.

Cool. I am glad you were able to test this method with Freedom. They are both from Bandai, so it is not surprising that it works...they probably have the same authoring issue that is screwing with the BH200. And, yeah, I would try this with any blus where the menu seems to be the issue. Why not?

I got Kill Bill Volume 1 to load using the "van der graaf gambit" (Stop-Stop-Disc Menu), although I'm not sure what my settings are as I've been playing around with it a lot. The bottom line is that it wouldn't load for me initially, until I performed the maneuver described above.

Oddly enough, Kill Bill Volume II loaded fine.

Perhaps LG's engineers should program some sort of macro that performs these menu commands if a disc won't load. I'm not sure if it's possible for them to know that a disc isn't loading...I'm guessing it would be.

You are perfectly right Chris, I did mean that SPECIFIC problem.
After the latest firmware update, my ratio is 3 HD DVD disks which will not play AT ALL, out of those 150+.
Plus a number of others with quirks but workarounds.
To be fair, those 3 are French HD DVD pressings, which obviously LG is even less motivated to correct than the American ones

This same disc works fine for me, no problems at all (With optical or Mulichannel PCM audio but only 1080I).

it works You sure about my first born? Akira coming to blu-ray sold me on the format (and pretty much the bh200, as I'd already got a load of HD-DVD's and a single player upped the GAF a lot) so I was mighty pissed when the damn thing wouldn't play

Ha, I am sure. I happy enough knowing that you are able to party and rock-out with Akira!

This work around must have been lost in all the pages here, anyone that has Point Break can use this method as well

I wish that would work for the bh100 too.

Athanasios

I had issues with Sideways(Bluray). No menu and all it would do was green screen and I could hear audio from the Menu. After going into setup and turning off 24p all was OK with 1080/60p. No issues with my Sony S1 at 24p. Latest firmware.

I own this disc. I'll verify it later for you and the rest of the group.

HD DVD: Enemy at the Gates (aka Stalingrad in France), French - The HD/BD lights flash trying to see which one it is, it's then spat out after 2 minutes. - FIXED!

Guys

I am running the latest Dec 08 firmware and my French HD-DVD copy of Stalingrad still won't work in it. The player actually detects the loaded disk is HD-DVD format but it spats it out with "Disk Error" after 2 minutes or so.

Can someone with a copy of this movie please confirm this title works? Film mode is set to off on my player too.

I'm having problems with the UK version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the Directors Cut. I have to rewind scenes to get some of the audio to work properly (but a rewind does get it to work just fine)

Watched Role Model last night, the unrated version and it played fine visually but every now and then I had audio issues. The audio was there but was not clear. I'm guessing this is due to the seamless branching on the disc. My BH200 is hooked up HDMI to the TV and Optical to my Sony soundbar/sub. Maybe I'll try it again hooked up HDMI to the soundbar to see if the sound problem still exists. This was the first time I have noticed this but I don't watch too many movies on this system.

DVD-Audio issue if anyone cares...

Eagles, Hotel California (DVD-Audio) - Can't get the DTS songlist to display off the main menu. Work around is to use the DD song list and while song is playing switch to DTS audio with remote audio button.

This is about as minor as minor gripes get, but the "Bluecher Button" (pushing it is supposed to result in a horse whinny sound, as in when anybody in the movie says, "Frau Bluecher") doesn't do anything on a BH-200.

Everything else on the disc works fine as far as I can tell...

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but Rambo (the newest one) has a bunch of audio dropouts for me. It is not my setup (I don't think) as the dropouts occur (always in the same place) even through the analog hookups through my TV. It is not an HDMI/HDCP issue.

Is anyone having trouble with Babel the French Import on their BH200? I'm getting the Stalingrad issue before the firmware fixed it. The lights flash and spits it out and says "disc error" on the display.

Watched Bolt on Saturday and had numerous audio dropouts that lasted for just a second or so.

I hope that is not the norm. I just picked up Bolt last night.

Thanks for the report.

Is your BH200 hooked directly to your display?

You might want to call LG customer support to let them know of the problem.