my ps3 skips at specific parts on some bluray discs (netflix related, the few blurays i've purchased have NOT had this issue). I recently got software for bluray playback on pc (since the default software that came with the drive didn't support win 7 64 bit...) so...
When watching 500 days of summer on bluray, it started skipping, and skipped a few times about 13 to 18 minutes into the movie. When I played the disc on my pc (which has a bluray disc drive) it plays smoothly but has minor artifacts in only 1 part (of the few spots) where it normally skips.
cleaning the disc did not fix the issue (in a few cases cleaning did fix skipping, but the majority of cases it does not)
should i send my ps3 in to get its drive replaced? it's out of warranty by now probably....
i've seen issues similar to this all over the internet, but everyone always says its a disc problem. It most likely IS a disc problem, but nevertheless the ps3 seems to be less capable of handling disc errors than other bluray drives.
is there perhaps some settings or something that fixes this? are some ps3 drives more prone to skipping than others? This is getting seriously annoying, to the poiint that my sister doesn't want to borrow blurays anymore... perhaps if playon supports bluray streaming or maybe when i build another few computers i'll just forgo using the ps3 for bluray playback at all....
//semi-rant: the ps3 seems to suck at being the home theatre machine Sony claims: no ogg & various other important audio/video file support, inability to play streamed music from other computers without chopping (unless an audio quality setting is disabled, its not even a network issue as videos with much higher bitrate don't have issues streaming), about the only thing that works as expected is gaming, although a lot of games do have minor choppy bits and there's no antialiasing support which is a serious problem in many ps3 games
also, some discs refuse to play at all unless a setting is changed for bluray live//
When watching 500 days of summer on bluray, it started skipping, and skipped a few times about 13 to 18 minutes into the movie. When I played the disc on my pc (which has a bluray disc drive) it plays smoothly but has minor artifacts in only 1 part (of the few spots) where it normally skips.
cleaning the disc did not fix the issue (in a few cases cleaning did fix skipping, but the majority of cases it does not)
should i send my ps3 in to get its drive replaced? it's out of warranty by now probably....
i've seen issues similar to this all over the internet, but everyone always says its a disc problem. It most likely IS a disc problem, but nevertheless the ps3 seems to be less capable of handling disc errors than other bluray drives.
is there perhaps some settings or something that fixes this? are some ps3 drives more prone to skipping than others? This is getting seriously annoying, to the poiint that my sister doesn't want to borrow blurays anymore... perhaps if playon supports bluray streaming or maybe when i build another few computers i'll just forgo using the ps3 for bluray playback at all....
//semi-rant: the ps3 seems to suck at being the home theatre machine Sony claims: no ogg & various other important audio/video file support, inability to play streamed music from other computers without chopping (unless an audio quality setting is disabled, its not even a network issue as videos with much higher bitrate don't have issues streaming), about the only thing that works as expected is gaming, although a lot of games do have minor choppy bits and there's no antialiasing support which is a serious problem in many ps3 games
also, some discs refuse to play at all unless a setting is changed for bluray live//
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