Took about 1 1/2 months for samsung to come out with a fix to play POTC-3, about 1 month for '3:10 to Yuma' & a month for 'Live free Die Hard'. This last update 2.3v REALLY Fu^cked up my player, movies that played fine before get ejected "Unable to play disc". It took me about 15+ tries to get 'I am Legend' too load, 'Lost' s3 disc 1 took 3 or 4 tries, 'Category 7' took over 20 tries & over 1 week to get it too load, but the player has NO troubles playing DVD's, just some BD's.
I have called samsung they sent me a cd-r of 2.3v to reinstall but still I have the same troubles. The player is under the Part warranty But the labor cover is over & I would have to pay $85 + shipping for them to fix this & that does not guaranty that when the next update happens it would not happen all over agian.
I have figerd out if I put in a disc that loads on the 1st try & then watch about 10 mins of the movie, eject that & putin one of the disc's that has troubles it then will load on the 1st try, SOMETIMES
I am hoping whenever the next update comes out it MAY fix the problems of my player. Others are not having such bad problems but most are now having trouble navigating on screen menus & "Unable to play disc" on disc here & there, mostly homemade BD discs.
If I keep having troubles by when the Sony BD350 comes out I will probly get one of those, I may wait a month or two to see if the price comes down from the MSRP of $400 & then give the the samsung to my mother. The samsung plays all 92 BD's I have, but you have to "work" to get some movies to play.
I will not get a PS3.
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