Warranty on Blu Ray Players?! I just purchased this Blu Ray Player, and wanted to know if you need to purchase a warranty?
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I've never bought an extended warranty. If the product is that bad, extended warranties would either be very expensive, or not available ... they are NOT going to lose money on them. Figuring the store selling the warranty takes its 50 percent cut, then that leaves only 50 percent for the warranty company (either a 3rd party or the manufacturer) ... and again, they wouldn't do it if they lost money. If you're worried and need the extension to sleep at night, fine. But the companies are betting that they will pay out less in claims than they take in through warranty sales ... and they have their own research to back up their business plan. Certainly some products might prove a good deal to have that extension, but which ones? You'd have to buy a warranty on every product you buy ... and you would most definitely lose out overall. In my case, from cars to VCRs, I would never have made out with an extended warranty. And remember, many credit card companies already double the warranty anyway.
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Thanks for the update. I ended up buying the LG BD570 Network Blu-ray Disc Player after all my investigations and it has turned out to be a great device.I hardly use it for disc playback though, but it's nice to know that the option is there.
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I bougt 2 three of these players over 3 years and none of them lasted longer than a year. I wrote to the company to have repairs done but they responded they could and would not. This 3 years ago and \I have not bought any more since.
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I have and do; in fact, it's been the best Blu Ray player I've used for a computer. I have a Mac and use a downloadable player. Try Different software; if that doesn't work, it might be a faulty unit.
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I'm not sure. I bought it as a gift for my brother and his wife for their kid. I don't believe it came with. Warrantee tho. Regardless of warrantee it's still a very nice player.
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Yep...The same thing happened to me. I sent it back, bought another one and it happened again. The last one I ordered from Amazon which I never received from Amazon so I took that as a sign to find another player. Any suggestions?
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I just purchased the Samsung BD-P3600 blu-ray players and I'm having the same problem as posted by C. Wagnon; anyone out there has a solution! If I can't use the wifi connection, I'll be returning the darn player!
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I had the same experience today on sears.com but decided to go in person.My salesperson called three other sears stores and found one who had the player in stock.I paid for it in her store(249.99 + tax) and drove 35 miles to pick it up at the other Sears.They handed me the blu ray player in a minute and a half after I scanned my receipt.Plus You get two movies which you can sell and get $30 or more for online.Hang in there and keep calling around to all your Sears stores.
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What would people with the choice we have now. I'd like to know the opinion.1. Buy really cheap DVDs NOW and use the upconversions done by the Blu-Ray player for the HDTV.2. Wait to get the true Blu-Ray discs to come eventually at more expensive cost compared against the DVD discs.What would you do?
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Did you receive any feedback on this yet? I want to buy the Sharp however am waiting for the free blu ray player...thx
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You need to format it as a FAT32 drive. It comes pre-formatted with the NTFS file system--which can't be read by most Blu-ray players.
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I contacted Sony support and this is what they said:"I'm sorry that the resume playback feature of the Blu-ray Disc player does not work. Sometimes, the player may not resume playback depending on the disc or stop point."Not very helpful. Not sure yet if this happens on all BD disc but it happens on Casino Royal, which is Sony produced... Very lame IMO.
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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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I just downloaded the latest firmware update from the samsung website to a flash drive and went through the steps to update the BD player. Now, I'm having the same problems that everyone is reporting - it won't play a Blueray disc. It get's stuck in the "load" mode. It will, however, play a DVD without a problem. So, like many others before me, I will be taking it back to the store. Samsung wanted me to send it to them, but I don't think I'm going down that nightmare road.
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Return it to blu. You have a 1year warranty. Check there website for more info.
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Nothing from amazon on this after 8 months. I am surprised and annoyed that they have an app for the tv's but not for the blu-ray players which drive surround sound systems. It seems that amazon supports the lowest common denomintor of consumer devices samsung tv sets, but not the next notch up. Time to move on to a more robust solution, imho.
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April 9, 2009: Over 3+ months of mulitple firmware updates (which apparently were successful, but without successful playback of many Blu-Ray discs) I FINALLY got Samsung to email me a shipping label to send my BD-P2500 in for repair. Long story short: It was a defective unit. After 2/12 weeks of "service", Samsung sent me a different unit which now works fine, so far.... (UGH)