Originally Posted by larrythefatcat I know it's been months since the posts about Thor... but are you absolutely sure there's not an issue with your center speaker? If there's music and sound effects, but no dialogue, that sounds like the center speaker to me. Also, the previous experiences I've had with Cinavia stop playback altogether, so I don't think that's it. Thor doesn't seem to be one of the titles with Cinavia either... there are so many reasons I don't think it's Cinavia. Actually just those two.

Yep I actually tried playing it last night and still had the same problem. The day is coming when receivers will require internet connections to get "authorization" to play the audio. This is ing annoying. I don't want to disconnect my set up just to list to Thor on my Panasonic's shitty tv speakers.

ok, I decided to tinker around with the settings again in my blu ray player. I set it to digi-pass thru(?) I think and bam, it works now. So Now I can watch the bore that is THOR LOL!

I just bought Green Zone from Best Buy with Summer of Action promo cash.

I pop it in and throughout the entire movie the video freezes for five seconds or less, though the sound keeps going. It does this maybe thirty times.

Anyone else have this problem?

This is the set that comes with the 3D disc, the 2D disc, the extras disc, and the DVD. On the 3D disc, when the lossless DolbyHD 7.1 track is selected in the menu, it only plays the standard Dolby Digital 5.1 track from the standard DVD version. I know it's not my settings or receiver because when I play the 2D disc, it plays the lossless audio track flawlessly. All of my other Blu-Ray discs (3D or 2D) play every audio track that I select flawlessly as well. Another verification that it's not playing the correct track is that when I bring up the on-screen display for time elapsed, audio codec, bitrate, etc, the audio reads "Dolby Digital 5.1" and the audio bitrate is locked at 640 kbps, instead of the normal fluctuating 5 to 7 MBps that comes from lossless. I don't know if Best Buy got a bad batch in the beginning, but I went through 3 copies with them and they all did the same thing.

Originally Posted by downgrade This is the set that comes with the 3D disc, the 2D disc, the extras disc, and the DVD. On the 3D disc, when the lossless DolbyHD 7.1 track is selected in the menu, it only plays the standard Dolby Digital 5.1 track from the standard DVD version. I know it's not my settings or receiver because when I play the 2D disc, it plays the lossless audio track flawlessly. All of my other Blu-Ray discs (3D or 2D) play every audio track that I select flawlessly as well. Another verification that it's not playing the correct track is that when I bring up the on-screen display for time elapsed, audio codec, bitrate, etc, the audio reads "Dolby Digital 5.1" and the audio bitrate is locked at 640 kbps, instead of the normal fluctuating 5 to 7 MBps that comes from lossless. I don't know if Best Buy got a bad batch in the beginning, but I went through 3 copies with them and they all did the same thing.

Let me guess, you use a PS3 to play the disc.

Might want to add that life uk version plays into only but wont load the film on ps3 and some if not all Sony brd players even though its listed as region free

It likely is region free, but probably coded in 50hz. Still good to know for those that don't have a player or converter.

While this should go without saying, be extremely weary of buying newer discs if you have a profile 1.0 player. Just tried to boot Game of Thrones on my BD-P1000 and the menus were unusable with the latest firmware update.

Originally Posted by Aliens While this should go without saying, be extremely weary of buying newer discs if you have a profile 1.0 player. Just tried to boot Game of Thrones on my BD-P1000 and the menus were unusable with the latest firmware update.

How can you check?

There's a bad batch of the Hunger Games on bluray going around. Most of the bad disks come from Best Buy, but not all of them (mine came from Amazon). The problem is that the movie plays fine for about an hour, and at the countdown to the beginning of the games (when they're all standing on the pedestals), it pauses, then unpauses, then stops randomly. Some people report that disabling BD Live will fix it, but it didn't for me. I'm getting a replacement from Amazon, and will report back if it's better with a new copy.

Originally Posted by Omatsei There's a bad batch of the Hunger Games on bluray going around. Most of the bad disks come from Best Buy, but not all of them (mine came from Amazon). The problem is that the movie plays fine for about an hour, and at the countdown to the beginning of the games (when they're all standing on the pedestals), it pauses, then unpauses, then stops randomly. Some people report that disabling BD Live will fix it, but it didn't for me. I'm getting a replacement from Amazon, and will report back if it's better with a new copy.

thxs for the heads up. I just picked up a copy yesterday from Best Buy and was going to watch on Monday, but I check it out tonight.

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I know this is an older movie and chances are slim of anyone having interest in picking it up now, but Zack & Miri Make A Porno has issues on PS3, and maybe other blu-ray players. You need to go into the PS3 and have the option to automatically enable BD Live turned off. Then when you start the blu-ray and it asks if you want to enable BD Live, select no. Otherwise the blu-ray will freeze on the first loading screen. I thought I had a defective disc that wouldn't load, but a Google search brought me to a site that showed other people having problems with the same movie and how to get around it.

I just bought Taken shipped and sold by amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...F8&me=&seller= and it won't even show up at all on my PS3 Slim 320GB. My PS3 reads other Blu-ray movies, DVD's, and PS3 games so I don't think it is the laser. I have already got one replacement from amazon.com and today they told me to send back the disc and they would issue a refund. Has anyone else had any issues with it not showing up at all in the PS3 acting like it wants to eject disc on its own but doesn't?

Originally Posted by mike568 I just bought Taken shipped and sold by amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...F8&me=&seller= and it won't even show up at all on my PS3 Slim 320GB. My PS3 reads other Blu-ray movies, DVD's, and PS3 games so I don't think it is the laser. I have already got one replacement from amazon.com and today they told me to send back the disc and they would issue a refund. Has anyone else had any issues with it not showing up at all in the PS3 acting like it wants to eject disc on its own but doesn't?

I've watched Taken on my PS3 just fine.

Originally Posted by JasonTerminator I've watched Taken on my PS3 just fine.

Where did you buy it at and when?

Amazing Nature 3D. Picked it up for $9 . . . and it's broken.

You can watch the individual chapters, but not the intro. Top menu is mostly broken and even the sections that do work sometimes stop and you have to eject and reload the disc.

Originally Posted by mike568 Where did you buy it at and when?

I don't remember, I've had it for a few years. If I had to guess, I think it was Target.

My PS3 is a slim 120GB btw.

So I had an interesting one happen to me yesterday.

I picked up the Predator 2 pack, specifically the "Own the moment" white packaging. Anyway, inside was the Predator Ultimate Hunter Edition. When I brought it home it refused to load in my PS3. I would insert it and nothing would happen except an extended sound of the drive trying to read the disc. This then led to a sound of the drive partially ejecting the disc but ultimately having it stay inside. (worried me for a second, let me tell you)

Anyway, when I exchanged it at Target the other one I opened didn't have the Predator Ultimate Hunter Edition but rather the original pressing of Predator. This one loaded just fine so I have no idea if there's a larger issue with the Ultimate Hunter Edition but I was pleased to find that I ended up with the preferable transfer of Predator.

Originally Posted by mike568 I just bought Taken shipped and sold by amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...F8&me=&seller= and it won't even show up at all on my PS3 Slim 320GB. My PS3 reads other Blu-ray movies, DVD's, and PS3 games so I don't think it is the laser. I have already got one replacement from amazon.com and today they told me to send back the disc and they would issue a refund. Has anyone else had any issues with it not showing up at all in the PS3 acting like it wants to eject disc on its own but doesn't?

I just got from Best Buy and it plays fine in my PS3's so amazon.com must have a bad press of it. I did call amazon.com to tell them my Best Buy disc worked fine so they can check their copies before selling anymore.

Here's an interesting one and I don't know for sure what players it affects other than the PS3 I was using:

The Getaway (1972 with Steve McQueen) - the menus are in the wrong language. I think it's Chinese but I can't say for sure. Really weird.