Bluray media playing on PC but not on PS3 .. !!?!

[ahmadka]

Hi all ... Up till now I was using Optical Quantum BD-25 discs (Disc ID: PHILIP-R04-000), and they played back fine on both my PC and PS3 ... I had burnt home made AVCHD/Bluray content on them ... Now recently I purchased some BD-25's of another brand known as 'Hi-disc' (Disc ID: INFOME-R30-000) ... I know it might sound cheap but the seller whom is selling these on eBay says they're very good ... Have a look at the product here: www.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310317857284 ... The seller is a very trustable person on eBay as well, whom I've purchased stuff from before too ..

Anyways, I just burnt some of these new discs and put AVCHD content on them .. The resulting discs play back perfectly fine with no hiccups on my PC, which I had used to burn them in the first place ... However, they are no even detected in my PS3 ... That is, when I insert the recorded discs into my PS3, no icon shows up for the playback of that disc .. Burnt three discs and the same problem was with all of them ..

My PS3 is a little old now (3.5 years), but it reads all other kinds of discs, including game discs and the Optical Quantum BD-25 discs and Verbatim/Mitsubishi BD-50 discs which I've used previously ...

But in the defense of these 'Hi-disc' branded discs, I have to say that they played back fine on my PC ... Just not on the PS3 ..

So I'm not sure what could be the problem here ..

By the way, I normally use ImgBurn to burn the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders in UDF 2.50 mode ... I burnt them at 2x speed via the Bluray burner that came with my Sony VAIO laptop about 5 months ago ... Pioneer BDR-TD03, firmware version 1.00 ..

Can anyone see what the problem could be ?

[Cornucopia]

Yes, and you already know what that is: Those discs aren't compatible with the PS3. Maybe they're "good enough" for a PC drive, but that don't make them really "good enough". IMO, "good enough" means good enough EVERYWHERE.

Scott

[gll99]

Perhaps the incompatibility is between your burner and the discs. My experience isn't with a BD burner but rather with AVCHD on DVD5 since I don't own a BD burner just a BD rom. I usually use Verbatim but recently bought some 16x Sony DVD+R (4.7mb) to burn some avchd (imgburn, udf 2.5 blah blah blah as usual). It turns out these were lower rated Ritek F16 but I wasn't concerned about longevity with these burns. My older LG 4163b could only see and burn them at 4x and no firmware update was available. These discs worked on my PC and a Seiki BR player but not on the PS3. The PS3 didn't even see them. I then burned them using one of my other burners a LG GSA-H55N which recognized all the write strategies up to 16x. The same brand Sony discs burned the same way but at 16x worked fine in the PS3. This just adds another element to possible incompatibility.