Anyone having a problem with the Bee Movie (SD) and the Toshiba A3/D3?
I rented the Bee Movie (yes, unfortunately in SD) for the kids and it won't play in my D3 (the rebadged A3). It starts playing and then I get the "cannot play" error.
I think I was the first one renting it as the disc looks brand new and plays just fine in all of my other players. |
have you upgraded the firmware on your A3?
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I currently have the 1.3 firmware and did not want to update due to issues I've read about the latest firmware. It sounded like a lot of people over on AVS went back to 1.3 so I didn't bother to update mine.
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Originally Posted by sbelli
I currently have the 1.3 firmware and did not want to update due to issues I've read about the latest firmware. It sounded like a lot of people over on AVS went back to 1.3 so I didn't bother to update mine.
Supposedly once you update a player, it will not take a previous/lesser update? |
^^ I understand there is some modified version of the 1.3 firmware that can be download, burned to a disk and it will still "update" over the newer 1.4 firmware.
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Wow, that's the first time I heard of any issues with a SD disc... Maybe Toshiba is reverting to form, circa 1998.
fitprod |
Strangely, I got it to work. But only after "fooling" it into starting at a different place on the disc. I tried using the time search function to go to Title 10, chapter 1 and it still didn't work - getting the "cannot play" error. Tried it again and saw that it was taking a while again, so I pressed stop. It gave me the "press play to resume" message. So I pressed play and, bam, it actually came up with the movie.
Could have just used another DVD player, but it was annoying me that it didn't work. |
Originally Posted by sbelli
Strangely, I got it to work. But only after "fooling" it into starting at a different place on the disc. I tried using the time search function to go to Title 10, chapter 1 and it still didn't work - getting the "cannot play" error. Tried it again and saw that it was taking a while again, so I pressed stop. It gave me the "press play to resume" message. So I pressed play and, bam, it actually came up with the movie.
Could have just used another DVD player, but it was annoying me that it didn't work. fitprod |
Just played it last night in mine, no problem at all...
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I have an old Pioneer DVD player and have never had any problems with new DVDs. I got Bee Movie from Netflix as soon as it was released and it keep stopping every few seconds into the movie. I finally gave up. I looked at the DVD and it looked fine (no cracks) so I requested a new one from Netflix.
Same problem! Popped it into my MacBook and it played fine. Ended up using my 40" Sony TV as a monitor to watch the movie. Continued to play fine. I wonder if they used any new encoding technique. |
I have an old Pioneer DVD player and have never had any problems with new DVDs. I got Bee Movie from Netflix as soon as it was released and it keep stopping every few seconds into the movie. I finally gave up. I looked at the DVD and it looked fine (no cracks) so I requested a new one from Netflix.
Same problem! Popped it into my MacBook and it played fine. Ended up using my 40" Sony TV as a monitor to watch the movie. Continued to play fine. Seems like a strange problem. I wonder if they used any new encoding technique. |
Yes! I have the SAME problem with my old Pioneer DV-434 dvd player. I've rented "Bee movie" 3 times from Netflix, and after the 3rd one didn't work, I tried a brand-new copy and it still pauses every 5 seconds and have to manually forward it to play again, which it does for about 5 seconds, then pauses again. It must be some wierd new encoding which is incompatible with my player. Oh well, guess we'll have to watch this one on our computer.... sigh... :(
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