What's the failure rate on the BD-1400? I'm already on my second unit, and both came defective. Should I just get a Sharp BD Player?
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I went with the Sharp BD player, and it's working fine now. I already have a PS3, but I wanted a second player for a smaller tv I have in my household (which is a Sharp Aquous too).
572314
Absolutely not as the Sharp isn't that much better. The Panasonic and the Sony (particularly the PS3) have the best success rates.
1621206
mine did not work at all. well,it worked for about a day. I can't recommend this player. I bought a sony model, which works great
881480
plug and play streaming from your network: try MyHD Media Player Recorder :) I've gone through 3 different models of D-link players and while they make good modems and such... their players don't cut it. have you tried converting any of your dvd's to divx? assuming you even get it to work, can you even say the quality is the same?
2156638
well, it happened to me about 3 months ago. Totally bricked and useless. I looked it up here and all over the net... and it's just a bad unit and everybody's broke. I gave up and got my 20 year old Onyko unit out of the garage. Doesn't do much and there are limitations, but it sounds better. I don't have the $$ to fix it. Such a drag. At least it's not a SONY it might have broken sooner! :-)
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I just sent the same request to Amazon customer service. Maybe if they get enough requests something will happen. our BD 570 is only 2 years old - so were not ready to go shopping for a new Blu-ray player yet.here are the links for customer service @ both sites - if we barrage them with requests - maybe something will happen?https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us?ie=UTF8&nodeId;=508510&https://wws.lg.com/us/support/message-customer-support
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I have this same issue with an earlier model (BDP-S350). For me the problem began when my blu-ray player automatically updated its firmware last spring. Even blu-ray disks that played fine earlier stopped playing, although many of the new disks that I've tried work fine. Sony appears to be oblivious to this issue not providing any meaningful customer support. There are several possible solutions posted on the SONY website and on various discussion forums for other models (e.g, turn off the Internet access, clear the USB jump drive memory, unplug the unit from the AC power for a minute or two). None of them worked in my case. I finally gave up and bought a new Panasonic player; out of principle I persisted in trying to 'fix' my Sony blu-ray player for quite a while and eventually decided to pay a few buck to buy my way out of the aggravation). Bye, bye Sony products, hello Panasonic (They also burned me years ago for discontinuing support [e.g., driver updates] for one of their expensive Vaio computers.).
1918500
Yup....it seems there are problems. My player just stopped playing DVD video discs (ie any non-bluray disc). UGH...very frustrating. I must admit that up until now I've been very pleased with the player. All I can figure is that its one of the latest firmware upgrades. Back to the factory...
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Well, I have the Samsung BD-P3600 and love it. I conencted to my home server PC in about 5 minutes and instantly have access to 100s of my downloaded (torrent) Divx movies. Pretty sweet. Watching YouTube videos online is pretty addictive as well through the device, the Pandora radio also works slick.... I love the machine. They released a firmware a few weeks ago which I installed as soon as I bought my player (week ago) and have not had any problems at all. Maybe the new firmware fixed things?Each to his own, but for me the player works great and is super addictive with all the extra bells and whistles. Well, I have the Samsung BD-P3600 and love it. I conencted to my home server PC in about 5 minutes and instantly have access to 100s of my downloaded (torrent) Divx movies. Pretty sweet. Watching YouTube videos online is pretty addictive as well through the device, the Pandora radio also works slick.... I love the machine. They released a firmware a few weeks ago which I installed as soon as I bought my player (week ago) and have not had any problems at all. Maybe the new firmware fixed things?Each to his own, but for me the player works great and is super addictive with all the... » Read More Well, I have the Samsung BD-P3600 and love it. I conencted to my home server PC in about 5 minutes and instantly have access to 100s of my downloaded (torrent) Divx movies. Pretty sweet. Watching YouTube videos online is pretty addictive as well through the device, the Pandora radio also works slick.... I love the machine. They released a firmware a few weeks ago which I installed as soon as I bought my player (week ago) and have not had any problems at all. Maybe the new firmware fixed things?Each to his own, but for me the player works great and is super addictive with all the extra bells and whistles. « Show Less
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Thanks a lot for the reply. Sounds like this player does everything I want. Now, if Amazon would get them in stock...
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My suggestion would be to buy a Sherwood BDP-5004 Blu-ray Disc Player (Black) which is a Momitsu 899 under the skin, and which, with a remote code, can be switched from BD A to BD B and to all regions of DVD, or any one region of DVD. Yes, the Brit BD player would be a problem because SD elements on a Region B BD are often SD PAL. Also some BDs are 1080i/50 Hz ("Super PAL") rather than the US 1080i/60 Hz. The Sherwood/Momitsu can be set for NTSC output through the HDMI cable and will play ANY European BD of any type. All for cheap. Buy two!
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You may get more features & a better built but it doesn't give better sound & picture. I have the pioneer reference BDP-09FD at $2,500.00 and it now has problems playing new blu-ray discs. I purchased a $89.00 Sony in May of 2014 and it had just the same great picture & sound that the pioneer has,however i needed to return the Sony because it also had problems playing some blu-ray discs by freezing & the player turning itself off!? At this time no new firmware were available for these players. I'm done with blu-ray!
1758260
I'm probably going to cancel my order and go with a Blu-Ray player... also can then try to find a model that will meet 2.0 profile (as it appears this unit will clearly not) from the specs that have now been made available
38554
I've had mine for almost three years, but I didn't start using it often until recently. I had problems playing some Disney Blu-Ray disks I purchased for my son... The picture and sound would cut out intermittently when watching the movies, and it seemed to get worse each time we watched them. I figured my problem had something to do with anti-piracy nonsense, since I refused to update the firmware... A friend ended up an expensive paperweight when he did the firmware update. I solved my problem (at least so far) by taking my home theater receiver out of the loop and connecting the blu-ray player directly to the TV via HDMI. So far, so good. I've had mine for almost three years, but I didn't start using it often until recently. I had problems playing some Disney Blu-Ray disks I purchased for my son... The picture and sound would cut out intermittently when watching the movies, and it seemed to get worse each time we watched them. I figured my problem had something to do with anti-piracy nonsense, since I refused to update the firmware... A friend ended up an expensive paperweight when he did the firmware update. I solved my problem (at least so far) by taking my home theater receiver out of the loop and connecting the blu-ray... » Read More I've had mine for almost three years, but I didn't start using it often until recently. I had problems playing some Disney Blu-Ray disks I purchased for my son... The picture and sound would cut out intermittently when watching the movies, and it seemed to get worse each time we watched them. I figured my problem had something to do with anti-piracy nonsense, since I refused to update the firmware... A friend ended up an expensive paperweight when he did the firmware update. I solved my problem (at least so far) by taking my home theater receiver out of the loop and connecting the blu-ray player directly to the TV via HDMI. So far, so good. « Show Less
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That sounds like a problem with your individual unit. My wife got me the Blu-ray edition of Planet Earth for Valentines Day and I've been watching them constantly.....no problems detected...not even the slightest hiccup. Have you loaded the latest firmware patch from Sharp? I loaded it the day I bought my player (a couple months ago). Good luck with getting this working!!
697479
I Just got a sansa e260 from Amazon.com Thurday... It keeps losing one channel or the other,over and over again . You don't have to touch a thing and it drops off on about a quarterof the songs.. It looks like I got a defective player. If I do I'll get a refund . Seem like all Sandisk products are defective in some way...
1572574
I tossed the package, but I joked one up to me new ?blu Ray player and the other one to my brother in laws new Samsung ?Blu Ray Player. That is about all I can answer. Is there a test I could do for you?
536609
I have the same player you have and have played those very same blu ray dvd's I would unplug the player.wait a few min. allow it to reboot........andtry it again if all else fails...I would try a different disc from that collection.and If that doest work you may have gotten a defective set of discs.