So I have a Sony bdp-s3200 Blu-ray player and it has been perfect for the 4 years I’ve owned it. Well the other day I bring home the new Star Wars The last Jedi (even though it half way sucked lol) and it won’t load up on the main selection page/root menu. Just freezes and no screen prompts come up. It actually locked the DVD player and neither controller or buttons on player itself would eject the disc. Had to unplug and plug back in power to get to eject.
Anyway I figure oh well it’s just a bad DVD/Blu ray so I take it back and buy another copy at another store. Get it home tonight and same thing. So now I’m pissed and like WTF is going on?!
Every other DVD/Blu ray we own plays fine. Thought t was maybe the player needed an update so I updated the settings and have the latest system update per Sony. All is good with the internet connections and all seems like it should be fine now. Put the last Jedi in one last time and it still does not work. Again tested with 2 other DVDS/Blu-rays and they all are fine. So I’m out of ideas. I hate to get another copy after two tries it just doesn’t work for some reason. Why could this be? I’ll call Sony this week and maybe even Disney per the Blu ray disc suggestion though I don’t know what they can do. Anybody have an idea?
How is a firmware update different from what I did? I have the latest version per the Sony website.
And I’d rather not buy a new one as it’s not that old. I paid maybe $75 bucks for this one and though that’s not expensive replacing is the last option.
I had one that did that. Someone said firmware? Yeah I tried that, but it froze up during the update. Nothing would bring it back to life after that. It was a Sony too, btw.
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I called Sony and the guy said hey had an exact same call earlier today. I tried some other Blu rays and they work so it has to be the way they are manufacturing the last Jedi blue rays. Perhaps I’ll get the friggin’ DVD version and be done with it.
And this is why people pirate shit. I've had DVD's and Blue Rays do this as well. I don't know if it's your problem, but frequently this is the studio rolling out some new form of copy protection and now your player can't handle it.
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