Blu Ray Player Died

[olds]

Wouldn't power on and it had a disk in. Had to tear it apart to get the disk out.

I was trying to make my Windows remote (have a computer hooked up to my VT60) work with WMC (Windows 8.1)and Blu Rays. Gave up and ordered an Oppo 103D.

I'll call it an early birthday present.

 

[destrekor]

brag thread

Let us know what you think of the Darbee processing. That really seems to have people split in two camps: love it or hate it.

 

[olds]

brag thread

Let us know what you think of the Darbee processing. That really seems to have people split in two camps: love it or hate it.

I saw both camps on the reviews. It can be turned all the way down. 35%-50% seems to be the sweet spot.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Wow, I have never had a Blu-ray player fail on me. My first is a Sony PS3 (original 60GB model), but the HDMI failed, but the 1080i Component still works. Also a PS3 Slim. Have one of the first entry0level Sony standalone BD players and it still works.

Since then I've bought three Taiwan cheapo BD players where I rolled back to the original firmware for region free playback and they all still work, too. While I almost bought an Oppo 4-5 years back I held off after their removed pre-existing ISO support.

 

[JackBurton]

Wow, I have never had a Blu-ray player fail on me. My first is a Sony PS3 (original 60GB model), but the HDMI failed, but the 1080i Component still works. Also a PS3 Slim. Have one of the first entry0level Sony standalone BD players and it still works.

Since then I've bought three Taiwan cheapo BD players where I rolled back to the original firmware for region free playback and they all still work, too. While I almost bought an Oppo 4-5 years back I held off after their removed pre-existing ISO support.

My original PS3 (60GB) died on me a couple of years back (YLOD). My Pioneer Elite BDP-09 didn't technically die, but the bluray laser died TWICE, so it no longer plays BDs (it's now a $2K DVD/CD player ). Pretty annoying. I wish with 4K they would have just gotten rid of spinning discs. There is just a higher failure rate with moving parts.

Waiting on Oppo's 4K player before looking at buying any new BD players.

 

[olds]

The player that died is a Sony. Maybe 2 years old.
I am not adopting 4k as I keep my TVs for years and this VT60 is about 1 year old. 'll go with 32k...

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yeah If my stand alone player died I'd just use a console in the mean time since I'm waiting for UHD players. I'm also hesitant to buy any Blu-Rays for the same reasons. Now that I have a UHD TV and have watched UHD content with HDR I'm not much interested in owning any new 1080p movies that might see a UHD release later.

As others have said I haven't had a Blu-Ray player outright fail. I did have one that would randomly refuse to load a disk but a power cycle would fix it.

 

[purbeast0]

olds what player was it? i had a Sony BDP-S5100 that I bought about 2 years ago as well and the same shit happened to it a few months ago. one day i put a movie in and it was fine, next day it wouldn't open and it wouldn't read the disc in there. had to open it with my screw driver to get the disk out. when it was open i tried to power it on and nothing would move so something was up.

ended up getting the newest model of that same player (BDP-S5500) just because I liked it a lot and it seems to be more of the same.

i was using ps4/x1 in the mean time, but it's not as convenient/easy to use as the standalone.

 

[olds]

olds what player was it? i had a Sony BDP-S5100 that I bought about 2 years ago as well and the same shit happened to it a few months ago. one day i put a movie in and it was fine, next day it wouldn't open and it wouldn't read the disc in there. had to open it with my screw driver to get the disk out. when it was open i tried to power it on and nothing would move so something was up.

ended up getting the newest model of that same player (BDP-S5500) just because I liked it a lot and it seems to be more of the same.

i was using ps4/x1 in the mean time, but it's not as convenient/easy to use as the standalone.

It was the Sony BDP-S6200.

 

[purbeast0]

probably running the same drive as the one i have, must be a POS. hopefully the one i bought lasts more than 2 years. i enjoyed the interface and the functionality while it worked.