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Is BD-Live supposed to be painfully slow?

Aquila76

Aquila76

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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?
 
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.


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