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Old 12-13-10, 12:39 PM
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Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

Help! I've just updated my firmware the the latest 021 version, and my Sony S350 still cannot play the Apocalypse Now BD. The disc itself is fine (it played perfectly on my friend's player) and I've never had a single problem playing any of the hundreds of BDs I've put in my S350, but Apocalypse simply refuses to load, eventually displaying a "Cannot operate this disc" on the TV and "Unknown" on the player's display panel.
Other than buy a new player simply for this one disc, I'm at a loss as to what to do. Is everyone else having this problem with the S350 and this disc, or is it just me?
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

Do you have a flash memory stick in the back?
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

My 350 with old firmware(07.1.007) and sans memory stick plays this disc just fine.
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

Originally Posted by KillerCannibal
Do you have a flash memory stick in the back?
No, but guess that's my next (and final?) move...
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

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My 350 with old firmware(07.1.007) and sans memory stick plays this disc just fine.

Very, very weird. Not sure if there's any diff between the feature disc on the Full Disclosure and the standard 2-disc BD, but which one do you have?
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

Originally Posted by Gypo66
No, but guess that's my next (and final?) move...
Someone else had a similar problem in the Apoc. Now thread and using the memory stick solved it.
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

Originally Posted by Gypo66
Very, very weird. Not sure if there's any diff between the feature disc on the Full Disclosure and the standard 2-disc BD, but which one do you have?
Full Disclosure.
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

I get this message sometimes. At the risk of being Captain Obvious, have you tried turning off the machine, waiting a couple minutes, then turning it back on?

Or sometimes I'll insert a DVD or a different Blu-Ray; those will load up fine, so then I'll take them out and re-insert the original disc. My machine is a couple years old and sometimes it does quirky things.
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

Originally Posted by Jeffy Pop
I get this message sometimes. At the risk of being Captain Obvious, have you tried turning off the machine, waiting a couple minutes, then turning it back on?

Or sometimes I'll insert a DVD or a different Blu-Ray; those will load up fine, so then I'll take them out and re-insert the original disc. My machine is a couple years old and sometimes it does quirky things.
Thanks for the suggestions, but I've tried all those options and nothing gets the disc to load. Guess I'll try buying a memory stick and hope for the best.

By the way, does it matter what sort of memory stick I use? I know it needs to be at least 1GB, but does it have to be a Sony product? Any suggestions?
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Re: Does anyone have a Sony S350 that will play Apocalypse Now BD?

I had the same problem on my s350 with an Apocalypse Now bluray that I got from Netflix. I decided to have them send a replacement disc just on the chance that I had a faulty disc, and sure enough the second one played just fine.

Before the second disc came, I experienced with memory stick/no memory stick, various settings, etc and had no luck.

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