Is BD-Live supposed to be painfully slow?

[Aquila76]

I picked up a Samsung BD-P2550 recently, and while BDs look amazing, I am less than unimpressed with BD-Live. It doesn't seem to matter what BD I choose (Iron Man, Dark Knight, House Bunny, etc. ... don't ask about that last one) the BD-Live content either takes a minimum of 30 minutes to download, or it just doesn't download at all.

I have Comcast connected to a Linksys WRT54GL router, connected to a D-Link DES-1105 5 port switch, connected to my Samsung LN46A750 TV and the Samsung BD-P2550 BD player. The TV has no issues streaming content from my PC, or pulling updates off the web from the built-in RSS feeds. The BD player's network firmware update downloaded fairly quick at 10 minutes (from what I've read that's good); Pandora streams skip/stutter-free thru the BD player as well.

Is anybody else getting slow BD-Live feeds? I forget where I read it, but the Iron Man BD-Live content was only ~13MB, and that took a good 30-40 minutes before it was available. On my speeds, that would've been a one minute (worst-case) DL via the PC. Is there something wrong with my setup, or is this just the joys of (semi-)early adoption?

 

[Madwand1]

I get the impression that BD-Live is a rip-off designed to make you think that you're getting added value with network connectivity when it's just giving them the ability to continuously update encryption and feed you more advertising.

 

[Shawn]

BD Live is stupid and pointless.

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: Shawn
BD Live is stupid and pointless.

This is my experience as well. Add SLOW too.

 

[Aquila76]

OK, so it's not just me. I think BD-Live has the potential to be a cool add-on, like Xbox Live or PS3 Home. I agree, they aren't doing much with it currently.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Shawn
BD Live is stupid and pointless.

I agree with this, and with Madwand1 as well.

I don't find it to be slow however, at least not on the 2 disks I've tried it on, (Ironman & Batman). My PS3 is wired though.