The first disc of the blu-ray Godfather trilogy is not readable. I have a Panasonic BMP-BD30 and have none of the problems others have had with various discs. Is anyone else having this problem?

Do you have the latest firmware for the BD30? The current firmware is 2.4. Here is the page with instructions for checking your player and downloading a new file:

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/c...0/bd30_na.html

The last couple of firmwares have specifically targeted playback problems with Paramount discs.

Try turning off 24fps mode (if you have that option selected). Some Paramount discs don't play nice with it.

I have downloaded the firmware today but have not upgraded yet. The instruction links on Panasonic sites produce error pages.

Try this site:

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/c...0/bd30_na.html

The US site always seems to be messed up. This is the link typically posted in the long AVS forum thread for the BD30.

The upgrade resolved the issue. Strange it would not even recognize that a disc was in the player before the upgrade.

You would have known this if you had read the IMPORTANT NOTICE included with the set. They don't just throw those in there for the heck of it, you know.

After your post I searched the entire set. No such animal.

Yeah I was going to say I don't recall there being the typical firmware warning in this set.

That said, I think most early adopters have come across a disc that required a firmware update right away, so updating my firmware is the first thing I think to do if a disc is unplayable.

I just reached the 550 Blu-rays mark. Haven't watched all of them but I've been lucky and this is the first that has given me any trouble.

Is anyone hearing some weird sound, almost like static, on the TrueHD track at certain points during The Godfather Part II? It occurs at various points during the movie, but two time stamps I can definitely point other people towards are:

00:19:16
03:12:14

I don't hear it on the mono track or any of the foreign language ones. I am playing the discs on a PS3 and have tried 2 different copies bought from 2 different stores with the same result.

Well, I don't hear any weird sounds, but there's a fucking horse's head in my bed.

I'm playing my discs on a PS3 which is decoding the TrueHD track and sending it to a Yamaha RX-V1700 receiver via HDMI. I've talked with people at the Home Theater Forum and some of them who are running different setups are hearing it too.

And are you sure you're watching the right movie? The horse's head was in the first one!

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