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Originally Posted by Jmouse007 
Warning, there may be a serious problem with the manufacturing of this disk. I just purchased the 3D/2D version today from BB in Southern NH. Got home, and, because I had already seen the movie in the theater I first tried to run the extended "extras" 2D Bluray disk and had problems getting it to even boot up or to play. The furthest I got was the Menu Screen but the disk either wouldn't load or would freeze my Bluray player. Sometimes the menu screen would work but it was impossible to navigate anywhere or to get any of the special features to play. I own the SONY BDP-S550 Bluray player (plays 2D only), it has the latest firmware update and have never had any problems playing any Bluray disk before, never until today. After it wouldn't play I cleaned the lense, tried blowing high pressure air on the lense and this disk still would not play or play properly. On the other hand every other Bluray disk I placed in the machine after that worked flawlessly. I then put in the 2D Bluray copy of Prometheus. It also took a very long time for the 2D movie disk to boot up but when it did, the menu screen and everything played perfectly throughout the first half of the film. The problems start when the film is over half over, when Shaw enters the room where David is washing the feet of Weyland who has been revived from hyper sleep. From that point on in the disk, MASSIVE MACRO BLOCKING and all sorts of video distortion and artifacts presents itself. The movie is nearly unwatchable throughout the remainder of the film. The audio is fine and appears unaffected. As for this 2D Bluray disk, the pause, and play work but the menu screen does not function properly either.
To make sure the problem was not with my player and not the disks I played a number of new release Blurays without any problems whatsoever.
I examined both 2D disks and they appear normal, flawless and glossy, no scratches whatsoever which leads me to believe there may be a serious, massive pressing problem from the factory. I sincerely hope this is not the case. Please other AVS members with this 3D, 2D version of Prometheus, please report your findings.
Looks like this goes back first thing tomorrow
Warning, there may be a serious problem with the manufacturing of this disk. I just purchased the 3D/2D version today from BB in Southern NH. Got home, and, because I had already seen the movie in the theater I first tried to run the extended "extras" 2D Bluray disk and had problems getting it to even boot up or to play. The furthest I got was the Menu Screen but the disk either wouldn't load or would freeze my Bluray player. Sometimes the menu screen would work but it was impossible to navigate anywhere or to get any of the special features to play. I own the SONY BDP-S550 Bluray player (plays 2D only), it has the latest firmware update and have never had any problems playing any Bluray disk before, never until today. After it wouldn't play I cleaned the lense, tried blowing high pressure air on the lense and this disk still would not play or play properly. On the other hand every other Bluray disk I placed in the machine after that worked flawlessly. I then put in the 2D Bluray copy of Prometheus. It also took a very long time for the 2D movie disk to boot up but when it did, the menu screen and everything played perfectly throughout the first half of the film. The problems start when the film is over half over, when Shaw enters the room where David is washing the feet of Weyland who has been revived from hyper sleep. From that point on in the disk, MASSIVE MACRO BLOCKING and all sorts of video distortion and artifacts presents itself. The movie is nearly unwatchable throughout the remainder of the film. The audio is fine and appears unaffected. As for this 2D Bluray disk, the pause, and play work but the menu screen does not function properly either.
To make sure the problem was not with my player and not the disks I played a number of new release Blurays without any problems whatsoever.
I examined both 2D disks and they appear normal, flawless and glossy, no scratches whatsoever which leads me to believe there may be a serious, massive pressing problem from the factory. I sincerely hope this is not the case. Please other AVS members with this 3D, 2D version of Prometheus, please report your findings.
Looks like this goes back first thing tomorrow
Yep mine does the same thing. It played fine until it got to the last few minutes of the movie then it starts breaking down, Strange thing is if I skip back a few chapters now the scenes that just played fine are also screwing up too.
Also had problems loading it. Locked up the first time and had to unplug my player to reboot. Second time managed to get it to play. Extras disc did the same thing.
edit ...So after I watched it for the first time and experiencing the problems above I took the disc out and tried playing it again. First time it wouldn't boot again so tried rebooting and it worked. Go into search function and select the chapter where it started breaking down originally and this time it played fine. I'm lost.
Edited by gnj1958 - 10/9/12 at 10:20pm
)... I have no use for the 3D disc but I wouldn't have wanted anything other than this 4-disc set. I've seen only fragments of the film on Blu-ray but what I saw looked simply gorgeous. Can't wait to watch it again tonight.
3D gives me a headache when watching at home. It's terribly painfully horrible.
