Same copied Blu Ray only reads sometimes in player, all the time with PS3.

[sevensees]

I have what I think is a strange issue and hopefully somebody here can help me out. The same disc works only sometimes in my blue rayer, but all the time in the PS3 and PC. The discs I am using are Philips BD25, and I've had the same result with three different movies. How can the same disc work SOMETIMES only in a player? I know its not going to work when it makes a slight clicking sound every second or so, and a quick "grind" sound, followed by the disc continuously trying to get read. Sometimes I have to shut the unit off for me to get the disc out. Player going bad? Its 3 months old.

I've tried resetting all the settings on the BDT210, and all three actually worked in a row, then when I tried the first disc again, the problem returned.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[jman98]

Your BluRay player may be fussy. I own a Momitsu and it definitely is. I used to buy Taiyo Yuden LTH BD-R 25 GB discs. They worked without a glitch in my player. JVC now makes what is supposed to be the same discs (they and Taiyo Yuden have a joint venture to produce media together). The discs look the same as the old TY ones but the media code is different. My Momitsu just refuses to play them. I've tried the discs in friends and relatives' BD players and they work fine. Also troubling is that on my PC, my LG BD burner can't see these new JVC discs either but my Pioneer BD burner can. The point of this is that if you switch brands you may have better results. Verbatim makes discs that work reliably in my Momitsu so maybe you could buy some of those the next time. For now I would suggest that you avoid Verbatim's LTH line of BD-R discs. I've never tried them but a decent number of people have reported playback problems with them. Just so you know, LTH discs are made in a special way that is a little different from normal BD-R production. It lowers cost to make them that way, but they aren't as compatible as regular BD-R discs. My experience is that the sound you are hearing means that the player is having issues trying to read the disc. It is unlikely that the player is going bad, it's probably just fussy unfortunately.

[sevensees]

Thanks for the reply. I know that the verbatim disc are one of the best, and I now have some on order to see if that fixes it. But I'm still confused as to why the player would read the disc some of the time, and not other times. If it was a disc issue, wouldn't it never work?

[hech54]

Thanks for the reply. I know that the verbatim disc are one of the best

....DVDs. It is proving very difficult to gauge Blu Ray discs however.

[TimA-C]

I don't know if burning speed has the same effect on blurays as it does on DVDs and CDs, but if I burn Verbatim 16x +R DVDs at 6x I have no problems with any of the players/drives I have access to. If I burn at 8x then one player will often take longer to read the disk before bringing up the menu and the rest will read it OK. If I burn at 8x or 10x then at least a couple of older DVD recorders will complain and may or may not choose to play the disk but only after a fair bit of grumbling! Anything above 12x and several of the players will usually refuse to play the disk and most of the rest will take significantly longer to read the disk before bringing up the menu. Try burning at a lower speed?

[sevensees]

I think I may not have explained correctly. The acutual disc (movie) that is already copied, works about 1 in 10 times in the BDT210, and all the time in the PS3.

Why would an already copied disc only work sometimes. It should either work or it shouldn't, correct?

[Cornucopia]

No that's not necessarily true. There's a little chaos theory in each session of playback of mediocre/questionable discs that have a very analog, random hit-or-miss way about them.

Scott

[sevensees]

So, it is most likely not the player, but the disc, correct? These philips had good ratings, surprised not alot of people are complaining about these discs if that is the case. What is the consensus for the best BD-R discs?

[Cornucopia]

Most likely, but the player can affect it depending on how well it can track, focus & buffer, and especially on its error correction/concealment logic.

Scott