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Have you tried turning off HDMI-CEC on your TV?

Have you tried turning off HDMI-CEC on your TV?


Where exactly would I find that on my TV? I own a 32" Sony Bravia and I didn't have this problem with my other bluray player (Sony BDP S-360).

I wanted this LG player because it can play avi and mkv files.

I don't even know if my TV has this feature I can turn off.





The only way to get 1080 on your tv is through component or HDMI. If you're not connecting your player with component cables (since you don't have HDMI on your TV) to your TV's component input, you'll be stuck at 480p. Maybe I'm wrong.....but that's what I think the problem is. You can't get hd quality unless you're using either one. It's possible you might have the component colors in the wrong input? That's happened to me before. Check to see that they're in the right spot. If you have the component hooked up right, then it's most likely your player that's broken.

Hopefully that'll help you out!

Edit: Oh...something else I just remembered. You need to set both your TV and your bluray player to 1080 or else it won't work.

Yup. I was in the same boat as you. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't pass 1080i through component until, as a last resort, I swallowed my pride and opened up the manual. The manual states that LG BD530 will upconvert and pass 1080i signals from non-copy protected DVDs and Blu Rays. If the DVD or Blu Ray is copy-protected, BD530 will pass only 480i!

I don't know about you but this doesn't make any sense to me. So if I want to use the advantages (that I paid for!) offered by BD530, I actually have to "break the law" and remove copy protection from my DVDs and Blu Ray. If I actually abide by the law and use only copy-protected materials (virtually all commercially available DVDs and Blu Rays), I cannot make use of the advantages offered by BD530.

It's called 'Analog Sunset'. Devices being sold until the end of the year didn't have to comply to it (only devices starting to be sold after January 2011), but I guess LG decided to comply, anyway...

This is an interesting and rather annoying point, too:

"After January 1, 2011, the producers of Blu-ray disks will be able to include an 'Image Constraint Token' with any Blu-ray disk which will disable HD over component video, limiting it to a 480i/576i resolution - even though your player is perfectly capable, and bought well before the cut-off date. They want to ensure that HD content only runs through HDMI."

So basically only ones who are inconvenienced and screwed are the ones who follow the laws and regulations? WTF.

Yeah, pretty much. Pirates will not be affected since AACS and HDCP are already cracked. Customers who pay for this stuff will be the only ones affected, like usual.

That's basically how it is for copy protection in general. The copy protection that the 'Avatar' Blu-ray got took about a year to design and test. Customers who bought the movie had to deal with slow load times (which still exist) and playback problems (which required firmware updates which was a pain in the butt if you had older 1.1 profile players from manufacturers who aren't as operational today). Slysoft broke the copy protection a day after the movie came out.

So, yeah. It's just the same old story of money-paying customers being affected by things that will never affect the people who steal the content.

I have a LG DTT 901 converter box that won't stay on if the temperature is below 65* ... try moving it to a warmer or cooler location & see if it is happier.

Question on the firmware upgrading, seems this upgrading is to fix issues with internet services, do I need these if I am stricyly using this as a player?

I never plan on tying this to the internet or using any pay services, do these fixes affect different formats ie: flv divx, ect?

Here's an update (tried it last night):

It worked! Thank you SO much MEA707!


You just saved me so much time from returning this player. I hate waiting in line to return something at stores (especially during boxing week!).

I looked around my tv settings and found something called "hdmi control" and it was on. I turned it off and now my LG player stays off!

You're awesome!

Well, I hope somebody comes out with a hack that will disable the copy protection detection for BD530!

Glad I could help! I read that the HDMI-CEC on LG blu-ray players does not work well with non-LG TVs that have HDMI-CEC. On my 42" Hitachi LCD TV which has HDMI-CEC, it just doesn't communicate with my BD 530 at all. It makes no difference whether I leave HDMI-CEC on or off.

I still haven't had time to upload a file..
it's weird it's as if people almost think I'm lying even though other people have said they experienced the same thing

can anyone pm me the name of a file that DID work for them?

Does your dad's TV have DVI? It will work with DVI with HDCP enabled. I too have an older projection HDTV but mine has DVI with HDCP. The old rule was no upconverting over component but I guess they're changing it to no HD over component entirely Which is sad, whose going to manually record an HD movie over comonent when you can just rip it on the computer?

I was lucky enough to find this player sitting alone next to a huge pile of 550's at my local Wal-Mart last night! Haven't hooked it up yet though.

OK i got this player a month back when it was on sale at Wal Mart...Finally hooked it up to my bedroom TV and the movie plays and then randomly the screen goes blank...The disc is still playing bc I see the time going up and the TV is still on...I have to power it off and then power it back on for it to work....Any solutions? I lost my receipt too

I bought this BD Player for Xmas.
It really works nice. It bitstreams perfectly to my Onkyo TX-SR505 AV receiver (DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD). 1080p output thru the Onkyo to my Hitachi 42" LCD. Somewhat exaggerated sharpening in some upscaled DVDs and in a couple of BDs.
USD 69 @ Amazon.
It's now being sold in my country (Argentina) with zone-free DVD, so there's a successful hack. It just need to reach the Internet...

I just wanted to share my experience trying to get MKV files to play off of USB storage. It turns out BD 530 doesn't like variable frame rate videos. None of my MKV videos played until I tried re-encoding video using constant frame rate and then BD 530 played both high and main profile versions of videos. All I tried is level 3, but I am pretty sure the issue was the variable frame rate and not the profile nor the h.264 level

I know some people have had trouble playing MKV videos. My suggestions is to make sure the videos have constant frame rate. I used mediainfo to figure out the videos I had were variable frame rate ones.

Hope this helps to someone.

Regards

what did you use to change the frame rate? what program and where in the program?



Anyway I have a new problem
some .avi files won't play, why?
here is an example filename if it helps: s01e23.dvdrip.xvid-dvdiso.avi

what can I do to convert them?

It looks like the new firmware update fixes the BD-LIVE issues....

Just bought the BD530 from Paul's TV for 67$ and am surprised at the Blu-Ray picture quality.

In my opinion, it surpasses the 40GB PS3 I was using before.

We played X-Men Wolverine on Blu-Ray on my wife's Samsung LN55C630 and the image was razor sharp and detailed.

The remote is comical but the player functions as it is supposed to. Good value!

Nice writeup here: http://winstonsreviews.com/?p=492

Ok we hooked this up on my parents Sony (as I got this for them as a gift) Problem is he has a home theater system hooked up to the set via the optical cable. Everything going through the set works with the surround except the 530 (only the sub (I Think) & stereo works). (I have not been over to see what is happening yet)

Tried swappinng cables & inputs with no luck, he is running the 530 on HDMI3 though it don't matter which HDMI the 530 is using... no Surround.

Are we missing a setting or what? 45 minutes with LG support could not fix the problem so they said... their solution was unplugging it & holding the power button for a minute.

From what I know, you can't just set the frame rate in an existing video; you'll need to re-encode your video with constant frame rate selected. I use HandBrake to encode my videos. In HandBrake, you can set it under "Video tab/Framerate" dropdown box.

Confirmed MANY times and by MANY different users (and not just at this thread) -- profile 4.1 (and lower) works FINE (regardless of the frame rate); profile 5.1 WILL NOT work (again, regardless of the frame rate).

I bought this blu ray player at walmart the other day. I have a Denon AVR 1610 receiver so I know it can decode MA. I set the player to pass through (blue light comes on the AVR) but there is NO sound once the movie starts. Anyone else had this problem? It worked fine with my panasonic BD60 BR player.

Having the player for a little while now, there are two things that I noticed I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with.

(1) Size of the subtitle fonts when playing back Divx/Xvid files with matching subtitle files. The subtitles work fine, except the font size is REALLY small. On my standard DVD Philips player, there's a menu option to choose from 3 different subtitle sizes when playing back AVI files with subtitles. And on my old (standard DVD) LG player, there's no size selection, but the subtitles are of a decent size. Yet on the BD530, the size of the subtitles are really small. They are readable, but (for me anyway) only when you sit really close to the TV, something I don't do. Has anyone figured out a way to change the size of the subtitles so that they're larger? Changing the value for the subtitle size in the actual file does no good (it's an .ASS file where you can enter a value for subtitle size) but the player just ignores the changes of course. Here's what's interesting though. When playing an AVI file (with matching .ASS subtitle file), if I press the on-screen display button, there are TWO boxes in the left-side menu that say "ABC" (indicating the toggle area for subtitles). The bottom of the two boxes is where you toggle back and forth between subtitle on/off (or multiple subtitles if they were there), but scrolling up to the upper "ABC" subtitle box and it just scrolls through maybe 5-6 different sets of garbage that I don't understand (like PDIQ972035, though that's just made up here as I don't have the player handy... but you get the idea). There's like 5 or 6 different sets of "codes" for the subtitle and you can toggle through them before they just start repeating. But no matter where I leave it, the size remains the same. I haven't tried it out with .SRT files yet, just .ASS files. Especially on AVI files that are higher res, it's nice playing it back at 1080i but the subtitles are so darn small. Does anyone have any idea what might be done to adjust the subtitle size (or what that other "ABC" box is for on the on-screen display menu?)

(2) Video noise or interference during playback. I noticed that during times when the screen is COMPLETELY (100%) black (such as at the very beginning or end of a movie, or a scene fade-out, etc). I can see some "interference bars" scrolling right-to-left on my TV screen. I tried two different BD530 units, and both do the same thing. So it's not a defective unit. I thought maybe it's a flaw in the BD530, but then I hooked up my old LG standard DVD player (that had HDMI output too) and I get the same thing (though interestingly, at different speeds depending which resolution I pick... on that player there's a button to change res from 480 to 720 to 1080). So I'm seeing it on multiple machines that use HDMI (though they're all LGs). I have two cheaper cables (different brands and lengths, but both were cheap, around $5 each) and same problem with both, so it could very well be the cables. But they work great otherwise (and they are different brands and lengths). Or it may just be my TV. My TV is an older Sony widescreen CRT (not LCD), it only has a DVI input (not HDMI, so the cables are both HDMI->DVI) but it can display up to 1080i, and the picture is stunning (except for this scrolling little interference lines visible only when the picture is completely black). Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and what they did to fix it. I don't really want to pay as much for a cable as I did for the DVD player; it's not really that big a deal, just wondering if anyone had any clues. I noticed there's an optical out on the LG530, but am not sure what that would connect to (I've never used an optical out before). Are there Optical out -> DVI cables out there?

Sorry for the long post. But wondering if anyone has any ideas for the Subtitle size issue or the slight interference issue. Thanks!

Optical out is for audio only, so it is not going to help with your video issue.

This sounds like a ground loop issue.

From Wikipedia:

"As with audio ground loops, this problem can be solved by placing an isolation transformer on the cable-TV coax. Alternatively, one can use a surge protector that includes coax protection. If the cable is routed through the same surge protector as the three-prong device, both will be regrounded to the surge protector."

"Even if all of the audio and video equipment in, for example, a home theater system is plugged into the same power outlet, and thus all share the same ground, the coaxial cable entering the TV is sometimes grounded to a different point than that of the house's electrical ground by the cable company. The potential of this ground is likely to differ slightly from the potential of the house's ground, so a ground loop occurs..."

Thanks for the reply! I'll try looking into that and see if I can fix it.

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What is the best way to test a home network for BD-Live connections for all major studios?

I have a four BD Players:
LG BD530,
Insigina NDLIVE01,
Panasonic BD605,
Sony (do not remember model number)

I have a multi-branching wired+WiFi home network.
}Cable Modem 4port+WiFi{ ''branching" to either five port switches and then to insure FULL WiFi coverage WiFi routers set-up as access points... so the machines might have to go through multi switches to get to the outside world through the cable modem.

All current BluRay machines are hardwired

On each of the four machines I seem to have troubles accessing at least one studio or built-in network features.
Insigina = BD-Live on discs from "FOX"
LG = Picasa Pictures }Test BD-Live Works{
Panasonic = BD-Live on discs from "FOX" & "Dreamworks" }VisaCast Picasa works!?{
Sony = Random discs from different studios }Machine has no built in network features{

It seems that the studio that I have the most BD-LIVE troubles with is "FOX" but a disc that works on one machine might not work on another.

The most recent purchase that has BD-LIVE is "MACHETE".. The Panasonic machine give a cryptic message that it is connected to a network and to restart the disc to access the BD-LIVE features and then loops to this message every time I try to access them yet the other three machines can access the BD-Live features?

On the LG which can not access Picasa I can take the network cable and connect it to my Netbook and connect right up and my Panasonic which will not access the BD-Live on Machete can access all the Versa(sp) features such as Picasa

So is this just firmware issues with all four machines or is it my home network?

Awaiting when transitoryspace will share his knowledge, I'm trying to manage with Option Data.
Can someone of you share the Option Data settings of his BD530?
You can get the Option Data display page going in setup/Tv_format/16:9, enlight it and entering with the remote 4 5 6 2 5 8 0 and ENTER.
I'm sure there is another hidden window to edit Option Data (in other LG devices, you get access to this window with this key sequence pause 1 4 7 2).
Changing Option Data value you can get region-free, other on-line services and, I think, also DLNA.

I got this player after Christmas and so far it's been a great companion to my Toshiba 37E200U tv. Got a notice tonight that's there's another software update (I currently have version BD4.945.00.00.C). The updates are SLOW!

Sure is interesting how the stores only stock HDMI cables $20 on up!!! Is that a crock or what? I was about to order one online but a friend who works for a local cable provider gave me a couple.

Quick question - about to pull the trigger on Amazon for this.

So I need an HDMI and coaxial cable to go from the LG Blu-ray player to my HDTV so that I can get picture and sound? I thought the HDMI cable was supposed to carry both signals to the TV? Or is this how this particular Blu-ray player is set up?