Total Recall (Blu-ray) Official AVSForum Review - Page 8

I am curious, has anyone tried this yet? And did Bitstream finally work?

What a shame that even now, this issue has not been resolved! And even more shameful, Sony still has not released any firmware fix for their OWN Blu-ray players, like my 790!!!!!! And I check every day for one.

I've just watched this Total Recall in blu ray. The sound effects are very good.
Enjoyed the movie. It was non-stop action. Much better than Dredd.
I watched the Director's Cut version in "Pro Logic IIx with Audyssey DSX" surround mode (9.2 Heights + Rears). Experienced 2 audio drop-outs.

Request from OPPO re New FW update. Answer: (Sony's Fault and won't owe up to it! For those Blaming a Bad Blu-ray - somewhat!)
Is Sony going to send all requestors a New Copy once they have the Problem worked out?

We are still working with Dolby and Sony on this issue. At this time this is Sony's mastering error and not a problem with the player directly. In the interim you will need to use LPCM instead of Bit Stream for your HDMI Audio.



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I avoided this movie for the reviews I heard or read elsewhere plus my own bias against a remake. Recently I saw it on TV. I wound up getting the soundtrack album.

So, I have been saying that I wouldn't buy this until it's fixed... well, my wife got it for me as a gift. So we decided to watch it and see. THIS is the version she got me (3-disc Director's Extended Cut). I played it with my PS3 Slim Firmware version 4.41.

We made it about 50 minutes until audio got out of sync and dropped out. I switched over to Linear PCM, and the rest of the movie played fine (except I forgot to change it back to Director's Cut, so I watched the DC for the first 50 minuets, and the Theatrical Cut for the rest... )

Anyway, here is the interesting part:

Since I had heard the audio problems were related to copy-protection I reasoned that ripping it might remove the problem along with the copy protection. So I ripped the movie with AnyDVD HD and burned the ripped version back to DL BD media.

Back on the PS3 (audio set back to Bitstream), I started watching the Director's cut from 50 minutes in... and the audio was flawless for about 30 minutes, and then it dropped out completely, but this time a message popped up on my screen that said: "Audio outputs temporarily muted. Do not adjust the playback volume. The content being played is protected by Cinavia and is not authorized for playback on this device. For more information, see http://www.cinavia.com. Message Code 3"

So... I still can't tell if ripping the movie fixed the dropout problem, but I think this is further evidence the issue is copy protection related. By the way, HERE is more info about "Message Code 3".



Sorry for the blurry pic, it was taken with my phone.

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I tried this movie on a Sony player and the Oppo BD83 and 103.
Always some drop off and always at different time.
Change my copy 3 times at Wal-mart and keep telling them, see you next week since they would always refuse to give me my money back.
On the third time they finally give a refund and I will re-buy it once I know the problem with the encoding is fix.

Ray

I have this on blu ray,

with samsung bdp-1500. And no issues at all on what every one is describing.  

It sounds like some watermarked audio made it's way into the Blu-ray audio chain. It's happened before. Audio on Blu-ray's is supposed to be watermark free or there will be issues on playback. Somebody goofed in prepping the Blu-ray audio.