I'm disabling BD-Live on my Blu-ray Player--who's with me?

[Woofmeister]

That's it! I'm officially giving notice that I am switching off my Blu-ray player's BD-Live access. It's a useless feature that does nothing but add ten minutes of previews of movies I don't want to see to a movie that I'm trying to watch at home. Add in the ridiculous download times from the BD-Live servers (even with my 43 Mb/s download speed with FIOS) and it takes me fifteen-twenty minutes to get to the main menu of the movie I just placed into my player. That's on top of the 2-3 minute load times that are standard for Blu-ray disc.

And don't get me started on the supposed "bonus content" that BD-Live gives you, I've never seen anything that was worth five minutes of my time, to say nothing for how bad the video and audio quality usually is. Even my kids won't watch the BD-Live features and they watch Nickelodeon channel so they obviously will watch almost anything.

The studios had their chance to provide us with something that would make BD-Live worthwhile and they have failed.

Chalk up one more failure by the big entertainment conglomerates to combine their product with the Internet into something people would consider worthwhile. The fact that I'm opting out of free content says it all.

/end rant.

 

[Fox5]

I've seen discs that won't play without BD-live enabled.

 

[Anubis]

id disable it if i had it but yea you aren't alone in that, ive never heard any good things about it

 

[Woofmeister]

I've seen discs that won't play without BD-live enabled.

Really? I'm surprised to hear that. What about the first generation Blu-ray players that didn't have BD-Live capability? What if your Internet connection happens to be down?

You'd think that with all the other DRM features in the Blu-ray format there would be no need for BD-Live as an authentication scheme.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

How do you disable BD-live on the PS3?

 

[Vadatajs]

How do you disable BD-live on the PS3?

I don't think you can. You can either enable it, or have it prompt you to allow/disallow blurays to connect to the internet. I have mine set to prompt and I always say no.

 

[sdifox]

I don't connect the BD player to the network

 

[Number1]

I did not realize BD live access was so obstructive, 15 min before you can watch your movie, unbelievable.

BD and all this DRM shit just doesn't work and only makes honest people scream.

 

[Aharami]

i never enabled BD-Live. Which is funny because when I was selecting a BD player, I chose one with BD-Live capability over a cheaper one w/o it

 

[Blayze]

My player isn't connected to my network. I've heard of a few titles that give problems with certain players if BD-Live is enabled. Terminator 2 Skynet edition is one of them.

 

[sivart]

My player isn't connected to a network and I haven't even installed the firmware update to enabled BD-Live yet. So far, no problems playing any disc. (LG BH200 with April 2008 firmware).

 

[mmntech]

I don't think you can. You can either enable it, or have it prompt you to allow/disallow blurays to connect to the internet. I have mine set to prompt and I always say no.

You can't disable it out right. I have mine set to prompt as well.

Previews at the beginning of movies should have died with VHS. Most DVDs don't have them. For some reason they thought Bluray was a good medium for their return. It's a waste of time and bandwidth. Especially since people have just paid a $10 premium for the film.

I've seen discs that won't play without BD-live enabled.

I doubt this. Not everyone (most I'd wager) connects their BD players to a network. A lot of people still don't have broadband. Studios would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did that.

 

[Aharami]

Previews at the beginning of movies should have died with VHS. Most DVDs don't have them.

 

[Woofmeister]

At least previews on a DVD didn't make you endure fifteen minutes of downloading for the privilege of watching them!

 

[Modelworks]

I dove into the firmware on a bluray player the other day. Damn the amount of DRM related code inside it. If they took all the DRM out they could shrink the code it has to run by 100x . BD-Live has a bunch of it too. You cant run a function like pause without the code doing a 'check the DRM' before pausing, 'check the DRM' before you let it play again. Was that a chapter button pressed ? 'better check the DRM'

 

[Crow550]

I say disable it and if a Blu-Ray won't play. Then enable it for that disc. Problem solved.

Yes T2: Skynet Edition takes forever to load. At least when my Friend rented it & it had to do a download on his 1.5MBPS DSL. LOL!

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

I disabled Internet access for BD-Live in TotalMedia Theater. Now it shows the older previews that are already on the disc instead of new ones. Fortunately chapter skip or top menu works for most BDs.

 

[Apex]

i've heard of a few titles that give problems with certain players if bd-live is enabled. Terminator 2 skynet edition is one of them.

lol.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Only time I've connected my BD player is if I am installing firmware. I haven't done that for a long time though.