BD-Live

[jackBauer]

to save people money i thought i'd create this list of movies with flaulty BD-Live, i'll start it off:

Iron man (UK)
Da Vinci code (uk)
Kung Fu panda (UK)


please add more if u find any

[MrBoylan]

to save people money i thought i'd create this list of movies with flaulty BD-Live, i'll start it off:

Iron man (UK)
Da Vinci code (uk)
Kung Fu panda (UK)


please add more if u find any

If all of these titles had "faulty BD-Live" as you say then I think there would be a whole lot of people complaining about it. Here's a review of the UK Iron Man disc with no mention of BD-Live problems (and yes, he does talk in some detail about the BD-Live features on the disc):

Iron Man | Home Cinema Choice

More likely you still have either a network set-up issue or a player set-up issue on your Samsung BD-P3600 that is preventing you from getting BD-Live to work reliably on your machine.

Have you tried calling local Samsung support?

-CB

[jackBauer]

first of all i really do appriciate u helping me out!

second, LOL i dont think u relaise how much problems people have been having with the bd live on iron man the following is link from october 2008, when i called smasung today, iron mand and kung fu panda where some of the films he mentioned that had problems!

Blu-ray.com - Iron Man BD-Live Statement from Paramount

[MrBoylan]

first of all i really do appriciate u helping me out!

second, LOL i dont think u relaise how much problems people have been having with the bd live on iron man the following is link from october 2008, when i called smasung today, iron mand and kung fu panda where some of the films he mentioned that had problems!

Blu-ray.com - Iron Man BD-Live Statement from Paramount

Old news and not really relevant any more, nor is it actually a problem with the disc itself but with the capacity of the back-end BD-Live servers. I've had the Iron Man Blu-ray since about three weeks before its street date in the US and yes, there was initially a big crunch on the studio servers when the title first hit the street and everyone checked out the BD-Live content. They underestimated the demand and this caused the servers to crap out. But they've ramped up capacity and I haven't seen any similar reports of problems with Paramount titles lately.

And as for the Samsung rep commenting on "bad" BD-Live discs, I would take that with a huge grain of salt. Samsung is one vendor that has had a less than stellar track record with disc compatibility over time so I'm not surprised that their CSRs would point their fingers at the software.

Disney's "Bolt" is one title that has proven intermittently problematic from a BD-Live perspective, for some players. But usually the problems only occur if there is a problem with the network set-up on the machine *or* a capacity issue with WDHSE's back-end BD-Live server capacity. The disc basically "phones home" to contact the BD-Live servers when it first loads the menu of the disc (after the trailers) and if it encouters a problem, it actually issues a "stop" command on the disc! But if you try again later, it may work. The work-around to this one is actually to disconnect the network cable (or turn off networking) completely while you load up the disc. This tells the player not to even bother checking for a BD-Live connection.

Anyway... I would not issue the statement that "Kung Fu Panda" or "Iron Man" are "faulty BD-live discs" because it just isn't true. Whether any BD-Live content is actually useful and meaningful yet is another question, but issues with the back-end servers don't make the disc itself "defective."

-CB