pjten101

I have a new Panasonic DMP-BD35K player and tried to access the BDLive features on the Wall-E movie. Well I got a message: "not available in your area" error. The Disney BD Live onlne support dept said this is caused because I dont have at least 1 GB memory hooked up to the player, is this correct for the Pany BD35?

HumanMedia

Yes.
And the SD cards come in a range of sizes and speeds.

I got a nice high speed 16gb SDHC for mine, works very well.

pjten101

Thanks for the info! I had read about needing one on another brand of player to access the BDLive, but not the panasonic player. I happen to have a 2gb card laying around so I will use that for the time being. Does the speed of the card matter?

obidawsn

Since when does the Panny BD35 need added memory? It's always been 2.0 as far as I knew. The box that mine came in says it has BD-Live and so does their website. Nothing about adding memory. You shouldn't need anything else. Though I haven't checked for sure. I have no way of hooking mine to the internet, right now, so I haven't tested it.

TheMovieman

It does need a SD memory card to utilize the BD-Live features. I got a 2gb card which works for my needs.

pjten101

I just inserted a 2GB card into the front slot and it still says BDLive is not available in my location. What might I be doing wrong?

lizard

^Do you have BD Live enabled? Setup menu, click "disc", click "BD Live", then click "allow".

Also, did you let the player reboot after adding the SD card? (Just a wild guess, don't know if that is really required.)

You do have your player connected to the internet, right?

pjten101

yep its set for allow- full access
I did restart the player after adding the card and formatting it in the player
It is connected to the internet

Josh Z

All standalone Blu-ray players require you to add memory. At present, the PS3 is the only Blu-ray player with the memory required for BD-Live actually built in.

This is not well documented.

pjten101

So here is where I stand, have the SD card in the player and Dark Knight works for the BDLive features. I chatted with Disney BDLive Tech support tonight and they suggested I try to unplug the player and router and see if those two resetting will make the disney BDLive feature work. I guess I will give that a shot for the WallE movie and will be sure to update the thread!

Just Lurking

My 35 would not pull the correct DNS from my router. I manually entered them into the 35 and BD-live worked from that point on.

pjten101

Update: So unplugging the player and router in attempt to reconnect the two(as suggested by Disney tech support) was no help on the Wall-E movie. Dark Knight BD Live was working fine before the attempted reset and is still working fine after. Not sure what the issue is with the Wall-E BDLive option?

chipmac

I'm note sure if it's the same on yours since I have a PS3 but I needed to register and account with Disney before I could use the BD-Live features on Wall-E. Have you done that?

pjten101

I did confirm with the Disney group I would be prompted for my user info once it accessed the BDLive features, but I should at least be able to get to the login screen without registering, which it wont even go there. As a side note, I have been registered with the Disney BDLive site. I am really at a loss.

Easy

As far as I can tell it isn't documented at all. I read over the info on the BD35K and saw nothing that indicated I would have to purchase additional memory to use BD live. Personally, I find that damn deceptive, not to mention cheesy. How much can a couple of gig of memory cost?

kefrank

I suppose you can blame the Blu-ray specification for Profile 2.0 which only requires the capability for 1GB of persistent storage to meet the spec.

TheMovieman

I paid $6.87 (inc shipping) for a Kingston 2GB SD Memory Card (via Amazon.com). It was $1.88 (and $4.99 for shipping), but it got to me in only a few days.

bhauge

I read on another forum that the SD card can be Class 2/4/6, but it won't write any faster than Class 2. So no need to spend extra $ on a Class 4/6.

HumanMedia

Writing only happens once, but reading happens everytime that content is read, which can be many times in the one session. So more importantly what read speeds does it support? In fact it has to support fast read speeds to play back hidef video recorded on it (which it can).

DVD Polizei

Sony might want to start bundling cheap flash drives with their players.

Spiky

It really isn't obvious, but on p21, it says that for "virtual package" (BonusView or BD-Live) or better, data WILL BE put on the card. Hence, you need a card.

It should be stated more clearly.

Personally, I had heard that before buying, so I spent an extra $6 or something and got a card at the same time.

HumanMedia

More on memory cards.

You can also attach these to your computer and put digital files on them (eg DVD rips) and plug them back into your BD35 to let it play them. A nice transfer mechanism without networking or burning discs.

I also believe that SD cards are usually FAT16 formatted, whilst SDHC (High capacity) are FAT32 formatted. Also note that a few card readers are not HC compatible so an HC compatible reader is needed on the computer side of things.

obidawsn

I had no idea. Does the Panny BD35 have any memory? I know I was able to save my D-Files progress with Enchanted and somehow the SeasonPlay on Lost S4 remembers where I'm at. I wasn't sure how those worked. I figured it was something to do with BonusView.

obidawsn

Here's a question for you, pj, since you now have Dark Knight BD-Live working, does it work without the card?

Brian Shannon

And people wonder why this format has problems