Official LG BD690/670/650/6xx Series Thread - Page 71

Through dlna/lan you can send(basically watch) whatever you want.

That is probably exactly what is causing the issue! That seems like a huge oversight on LG's part not to be able to disable that indication, especially since I don't have the "Party With A Pirate" feature enabled. I noticed this blu ray player has an Ethernet jack. I wonder if LG could do a firmware update to fix this? We don't have it hooked into the net though so I don't know. Do all BluRay players do this, or is it just maybe ours since it was the cheaper one that came with the TV bundle?

if you have an HTPC, why not just put a BD rom in it?

Hope this isn't too OT.

MY LG BD650 just crapped out only 18 months after purchase----suddenly almost all disks wobble and buzz horribly when spinning up, producing an error message and refusing to play. I'm assuming this is a kiss of death for this machine.

So I was looking at the newer LG players, but numerous online comments suggest that for some brain-dead reason, the current models aren't able to stream Amazon Prime/VOD, which is important to me. So now I'm thinking I'm going to need a different manufacturer's 3D player.

The kicker is, I really want 50i compatibility so I can play Brit import disks. Don't really need wi-fi but do need Ethernet connectivity. And it must be a 3D player. Any suggestions?

TIA.

@ktg, please read my earlier posts, sounds like you have the same issue many of us had. Its an easy fix

With the last update for the bd660 BBC iPlayer is now working.

Hello jmolli,
I have huge problems with playing AVCHD videos from my Panasonic camcorder. The files from camcorder have the MTS extension and my BD670 does NOT see these files at all.
What file extension are from your Canon camcorder?
Thank you very much.
Martin

re-encode the .MTS to MKV...

As far as I can tell from the owner's manual, I should have audio coming out of both HDMI and the optical output, but that doesn't happen.

Just another one of many disappointments with the 670, I guess.

Bingo! You were right on the money, RonAlam. I did a little surgery on my BD650 last night, and once I found that stinkin' little loose magnet, a dab of Krazy Glue took care of things---the player works perfectly again.

Immense thanks---

to RonAlam:
Thank you very much, what programm should I use for MTS to MKV conversion?
Is there any quality loss (via re-encoding), or it is completely lossless?

Funny thing is, my parents have BD660 player which is a "lower" model (BD670 should be higher model) and BD660 sees the MTS files in folder and plays them perfectly....
This is something I can not understand !!!!!

Martin

mkvmerge

Hello . My BD640 displays "This device cannot instantly stream from Netflix in your area" (link & screenshot attached) when I try to access my account outside US and canada. I know those are commercial restrictions, but I'm wondering:
1. ¿Are there BD640 custom firmwares that allows to bypass this protection?
2. Netflix online documentation shows that BD650, BD70, BD690 are capable to access from Europe and Latin-american countries. ¿Someone has tried to edit BD630/BD640 firmware identifiers to "make believe" Netcast servers these are BD650, BD70, BD690 models?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Netflix LG Blu-ray Players features by country:
http://support.netflix.com/en/node/489#gsc.tab=0


Edited by juanfelippe - 1/16/13 at 11:33am

Its been a while since I've been on the forum, so this may be redundant. Anyhoo, I have the 670 with current firmware and am experiencing fading or skipping within the middle of songs on Pandora. A friend of mine told me it was because I wasn't using the paid version; so I upgraded. Well, nothing changed. My Fios connection reads an unbelievable 90/45 speed; I have serious doubts about this. I have the player hard wired. I have a hard time believing I'm having buffering issues as it sounds like static as the music breaks up, almost like a loss of signal but its not reflected on any other device in the house. I contacted Pandora, who responded almost immediately offering a prorated refund, and suggesting it was the device or connection itself. Hm? Anyone else having experience with this?

Greetings, everybody! I own the Mexican BD660 and would like to know what the latest firmware update, available Jan 11 2013, is for. Not sure if it's the same, but I'm guessing it's the same in other countries? Thanks in advance...

Hi everyone, so i have been checking around the web a little now. And i have been unable to find a region-free code for the LG BD650, does anyone know one that actually works?

I have a 670 and am looking for another one that will stream mkv's from the htpc. On the 670 its a simple find the shared smb drive and play. Does the 620 or 320 work the same way? In reading the literature it seems to me that you have to enable dnla in windows 7 instead of a simple share?

Edited by jim tressler - 1/25/13 at 8:53am

I absolutely think Freemake Video Converter (easy search for it) is the best one I've ever found. Does a pretty darn good job

I've seem to have found a pattern to what my LG690 will play in that it will play the old .wmv - say ones made in 2009, maybe it will play 720s, but will NOT play ay 1280 HDs.

My other problem is mine forgets how to read Blu-Rays or see data files. Last night (and this has happened 3 or 4 times) I rented DREDD and wouldn't see it. Tried I,robot which I own and have watched before and had same results. I have been watching mostly data files lately. Solution seems to be unplug it for a little bit so it will reboot when I plug it back in and all is well. Other times it woun't see what's in a data file if I've been watching all Blu-Rays. Same solution. I have BD8.97.423.E

Hi everyone,
I bought a region-free BD640 in September (latest firmware now) and yesterday I found two Blu-rays fresh out of the case not playing: The Island from Scream Factory and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. On The Island I get the warning/info message and the Shout! Factory intro but then nothing - the menu screen doesn't show up. Nearly the same with Once Upon - no menu. I tried Run Lola Run, which worked fine and also tried Once Upon on my PS3 - also played fine. Both are relatively new Blu-ray releases - maybe it's time for a new firmware?

That's exactly what it was on my 390. I'm here to see if the 670 is the one to get and it looks like it suffers the same as its predecessors. I eMailed (Trouble Ticket) to LG and in days I had a disc with a "newer" firmware in the mail. They sent two more before the FW's were released and I have never heard a word since and no new FW either. Having the FW on a disc has been convenient. Because I have had to ping-pong FW's to get certain discs to play, which one would think that the newer FW would take care of or include the fixes that the previous one had, but no. But since the 390, a great machine, is long past EOL, it's time to upgrade.

I'd file a trouble ticket on those discs and see what happens. Ironically I have ordered The Island and plan on playing it on a 670. So maybe with your input, by the time I get it all together it'll be fixed? Fingers crossed.

I hope this helped. Good Luck and Safe Journeys . . .
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Just picked up a BD690 on clearance for a decent price. I am a longtime owner of a BD590 upgraded with 1.5TB drive. I was curious to see what improvements if any, were included in BD690. My problems with the 590 were as follows: slow UI, outdated Netflix client, horrible network performance, cannot stream large/high bitrate files without chop, and copies to the HD very slowly off the network. Sadly, the same terrible UI and network performance exists in the BD690 (have not yet tried Netflix because it always says, "Can't connect to Netflix"), and now it won't play any of my .TS files that are in 1080i (it play the 720p ones ok). The BD590 in comparision has absolutely no problem with my 1080i .TS files. Ugh. I've skimmed this thread and see folks mention the same problem, but I haven't seen any solutions offered short of remuxing it into an MKV container or reencoding at 720p. Is that still the case? It's really ridiculous that the older 590 plays these .TS 1080i files and the supposedly more advanced 690 does not. I'm at the latest firmware that's out as of today.

Also, for those that have upgraded their HDDs, can you tell me what model number works perfectly with this player? I ask because I'm worried about Advanced Format drives in this player - I upgraded my BD590 with a WD15EADS, which is non-advanced format. It is near impossible to find a non-AF drive these days though... does the BD690 play nicely with AF?

All in all, fairly disappointed in this player, even at the price point I bought at, mainly because i had high hopes for improvement over my current model. Will keep it because I can still find a use for it with other files and as a disc player.

Hi CPB,
Did you upgrade to the 690 for its 3D capability? From what I read, thats the only real benefit. (I have 2 690's currently, and have not had any issues throwing a WD hard drive in it. Keep in mind that the players lock the hard drive, so if you take it out and plug into a PC, it will not recognize the drive anymore.)

Hello RonAlarm, I upgraded mainly because I was hoping for improved network performance and a couple of other little things that bugged me about the 590.

Can you tell me the model number of the WD hard drive you used? And yes thanks for the reminder about the lock. I unlocked the BD590's 250 gig HDD when I replaced it, following directions in the 5XX series thread.

the hard drives were from bestbuy, not sure what model, but I do know they were not the WD green drives, black I believe. I have not had any issues with the wifi on my unit, and rarely use it to stream. I just dump all media from my external hard drive, and yes it is painstakingly slow to transfe

Ah okay thanks. Yes I never use WiFi either, I have it connected via Fast Ethernet/MoCa to my network. I was hoping to not have to transfer all the data onto it but the network streaming performance is not very good on large files that play perfectly off the hard drive.

Does anyone know if there is a 'recommended' firmware to use with this? I know over on the 5XX series thread, they all recommend a firmware ending in .323.C which is an older firmware.

Has there ever been a solution to this problem? I've experiended this in my own 1080i files in .TS containers... "Resolution not supported" . Sadly my older, supposedly inferior LG BD590 has no problem playing these files.

What codec are your files? I played a lot of 1080i .ts files on my BD670, before replacing it with a Sony. My files were mpeg2/ac3. I did not get resolution not supported errors, but I had a lot of issues with the player not playing back the files smoothly until a firmware update (which later got recalled) fixed the issue. I had thought the resolution unsupported issue only happened with 1080p. If your files at H.264, your best bet may be to convert to mkv (or replace your player like I did).

My files are H.264 - they are files created with a Hauppauge HD-PVR @ 1080i. I would rather not convert all my files to .mkv if I could possibly help it. The baffling part is that any files created at 720p (H.264/.TS) play fine. It just doesn't like the larger resolution files.. but again, my BD590 (older model) plays them just fine.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a fix for this, only workarounds. Numerous users have reported similar problems. Though this limitation was not documented in the manual, these player models are almost two years old, so its unlikely LG will issue a fix. This is the kind of thing that drove me to Sony, much happier over there myself...