Official LG BD550/BD560/BD570/BD590 Owners Thread - Page 103

Don't know about the BD600s, but I just got my Crutchfield BD570 two days ago.

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yep, driver H80597 available on my BD560 in U.K. Downloaded quick, must be a small file, install took 5 secs. Dunno what has changed.

ok so today I am having a very strange issue with my bd570. I just bought and setup a wireless-n router. As far as I know, I have not changed anything else in my set up since last night when everything was perfectly normal. Now my bd570 connects to my internet fine except that it now no longer fast forwards properly. It does this strange thing where once I start fast forwarding above 2x I am unable to return to normal speed unless I hit the play button like 8 times. This is so weird! Maybe my remote is breaking or something? Or could it somehow be streaming the video too fast or something? What in the world is going on?

well this is crap, The Apple store is telling me I can't download this app as I'm Canadian, WTF is this BS why should it matter! How can I get this app? can someone copy there's with iFunBox.exe from there iphone and upload it to rapidshare.com and post the link. or pm me the link

I got the app and it works really well with the bd590

It certainly didn't fix any of my playback problems. That's for sure.

On my bd570 After I did the last firmware update a week or so ago after that cinemanow would not connect it would give an error about no internet conection, but everything else connected ok like youtube and netflix etc, I downloaded and installed the new driver H80597 and now I can access CinemaNow again so it did fix that.

I have a htpc connected to my TV via hdmi and if I view the video file through windows media player, it comes out fine. But when I use my LG BD570, it looks like theres an overscan where some of the subs are missing. The overscan is only on the mkv/mp4 file though, watching a DVD or bluray is fine. Any ideas?

General
CompleteName : D:\\Cross Game 14 - Central Anime (1280x720) [EFA24532].mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format_Profile : Base Media
CodecID : isom
FileSize/String : 350 MiB
Duration/String : 23mn 49s
OverallBitRate/String : 2 056 Kbps
Encoded_Date : UTC 2009-07-11 15:50:51
Tagged_Date : UTC 2009-07-11 15:50:51

Video
ID/String : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format_Profile : High@L4.1
Format_Settings_CABAC/String : Yes
Format_Settings_RefFrames/String : 8 frames
CodecID : avc1
CodecID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration/String : 23mn 49s
BitRate_Mode/String : Variable
BitRate/String : 1 955 Kbps
BitRate_Maximum/String : 9 466 Kbps
Width/String : 1 280 pixels
Height/String : 720 pixels
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9
FrameRate_Mode/String : Constant
FrameRate/String : 29.970 fps
ColorSpace : YUV
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 8 bits
ScanType/String : Progressive
Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.071
StreamSize/String : 333 MiB (95%)
Encoded_Library/String : x264 core 68 r1181M 49bf767

Should I trade the BD530 in for the BD570? If so, why?

They did the same thing last year when they moved from the 3x series to the 5x series. I went looking for a 390 sometime around January and couldn't find them anywhere except for inflated sales on E-bay. It seems that LG stopped production on the 390 around this time last year and let supplies dwindle until the new model began shipping in late February / early March. The manufacture date on my 570 is January, so maybe they needed time to retool the production facilities.

It doesn't make much sense to me, and LG very nearly lost me as a customer altogether due to their timing. It seems that LG really only tries to sell their models for about 8 months a year. I ended up waiting, but I was very, very close to purchasing a unit from another manufacturer. It was only because of the great reviews of the 390 that I waited.

Looking back at it, I'm not sure I made the right choice.

Here ya go:

http://www.lg.com/us/common/compare/...eo%2Findex.jsp

Been watching this to see how you make out! Last I touched base on this thread looking at HD swaps looked like it wasn't possible.

So - was going to order the 1TB since Doctor has already done that, but figure I'll wait to see how you make out with the 2TB.

Looks to me that trying to go beyond 2TB to the 2.5/3TB might be risky as far as compatibility.

In the meantime, also reading over teehex905's post.

any word on the bd555c? My dad and I are hoping to go out today and pick it up....

once again the only info i can find is "audio output via HDMI=yes" does this mean it can bitstream all HD audio tracks?


He(my dad) would really like his HK 2600 to decode.

My 590 shows "UPDATE" on the it's screen. I currently have Version 317.C When I go through the update process it says something like "UPDATE NOT FOUND". My network connection is fine. Any ideas?

FWIW, I ordered on 11/30, got the same note, and mine actually shipped yesterday.

I understand the next-gen dilemma that comes at this time *every year*. CES is always in Jan. For me, the prices was right and both Blu-ray and HDTVs are relatively mature enough to plunge in... unless you're hooked on 3-d.

[slight tangent]
At the end of 2006 I paid about $2K for a 50" 720p plasma. This year I paid $1K for a 54" 1080p plasma that is one notch down from top-of-the-line. I'll go 3-d or even zone-lit LCD when they hit that price-point.[/tangent]

This player, at the holiday clearance price is perfect for my family room. Having the better Netflix interface AND usable wi-fi is why I picked this over Sony (and the price). The Home Theater has a trusty-but-slow Panny BD35. This is the player I will hold out for a great technological reason to upgrade, and probably pay some kind of premium.

One more thing... I always determine if I am getting a good discount by comparing the price I pay, not to the current MSRP, but rather to where I expect next-year's prices to be. For example, the plasma I got in 2006 took about 6 months to get to the price I paid for a similar TV at a "standard" sales price. Of course, 4 years later I could pick up the same TV, several generations later for $500. Ain't technology fun?

Dan--I don't have much experience with mp4 video. Someone else might be able to identify if there's a tag in the MediaInfo output that is causing your "zoom" problem. Here are a couple thoughts:

• The resolution in your video title (1280x720) is indeed 16x9 (http://www.digitalrebellion.com/aspect_calc.htm). The DisplayAspectRatio/String tag in the MediaInfo output also shows 16x9. I'm no expert on letterboxing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterbox), but perhaps there's a flag in the mp4 that is being read wrong by the BD570 or your Samsung DLP that is causing it not to present properly. I had some problems with that while watching episodes of Centennial encoded in AVI. I've had a lot of success using Handbrake (www.handbrake.fr) to crop out letterboxing and other extraneous letterboxing tags in the video stream so that the BD570 and TV read a clean signal.
• Do you have the same problem regardless of connection method to your TV...composite, RCA, HDMI?
• My LG 37LE5300 TV has options for setting aspect ratio (4:3, "Set By Program", 16:9, "Cinema Zoom", etc.). Depending on the aspect ratio flags in the video stream and the aspect ratio selected on the TV, I will get cropped viewing. Any chance you have the same settings on the Samsung DLP?

Could it be that the player is not connecting to the net? Check out your wpa code and make sure it is correct. Take a look at your router and make sure it is connecting.

I put the hard drive swap on hold until I can figure out how to make a high quality MKV that will play on the LG. So far, no luck, so if it can't play the blu ray backups I create I don't need all the space.

I am now hoping to get a Dune media player for Christmas and may just wait to use the hard drive in that and use the LG for playing blu ray discs, netflix and pandora.

Guys,

For those using BD590, I did a drive swap, but how to reformat the Hitachi 250GB hard drive so I can use it in my PC?
The drive is locked, and OS cannot see it.

Any simple way to get around this?

Did this, but ATAPWD always said "Command rejected by drive" right after Set User Password

Please help...

Firmware .323c is now available for download from LG's US site for those still having trouble with the auto download and install.

According to the changelog:

1. Applying for BDROM Batch #5

Any idea what that means?

According to http://www.blu-raydisc.info/ It seems it's an industry standard for BDROM, it looks like when certain specs are added they are grouped into a "batch" and given a number. According to the site, Batch #6 is the newest standard. So in theory, this new firmware should be compatible with newer discs at least until Batch #6s start hitting the consumer market.

Ah. Thanks. I guess that's a good thing...

where are you finding these changelogs?

Well did a full test on the avatar extended cut (super duper long edition), playing through @24fps it did skip at chapter 9, it didn't on the spot check last week,

@60fps it played fine until 2hr 40 min where it froze until I pressed chapter skip.

BTW the app for IPOD works pretty well.

Click here. Then, click on the Firmware update, scroll down, and you'll see it. LG always likes to only include one change per changelog, even if they added multiple things. It's really weird.


Strange.

Server overload or something.. it's always very busy on the LG servers so you have to try again sometimes

I did a similar thing years ago with replacing the hard drive of my legacy Xbox for a bigger one. The new hard drive had to be formatted in a specific way and after that it had to be locked in order to work in the xbox. It was done by attaching the hard drive to a pc and booting into a specific build of linux from a cdrom.

I think you have to google around how to unlock a drive. There is this specific website that offers a software tool but you have to pay for it, depending on the hard drives' capacity: http://www.hddunlock.com/

But maybe there are also free tools around, I am not sure.