Inception Blu-ray "Skips"

If you rewind, does it happen in the same spot again? If so, it's probably the disc and needs to be exchanged. Mine played flawlessly.

I don't think mine skipped, but about 1 hour and 45 in, when they are battling in the mountains, the sound suddenly cut out. I restored it by cycling through the various sound options until "English" came up again. Don't know if it was a player issue that is temporary or whether it's yet another case of my Samsung 2550 messing up. I will play it again in a day or so and see if it still happens. Samsung is damned slow with the firmware upgrades, btw, so keep that in mind when you purchase.

Jacob, I've been using the BD-C6500 pretty heavily for the past six months, and I've never had a single problem with it.  Perhaps yours is defective...?

Where did you buy this bluray?  I got mine at Walmart and it skips in the exact point you mentioned, except instead of a pause it skips back to the beginning of the movie.  When I rewind the movie it plays fine, this is annoying.  Did you exchange your disc and if so does your new disc play?

It sounds like you guys need a firmware update to deal with this.

Not to get too far off topic, but I couldn't find another Inception thread so here goes:  What is up with the digital copy being download only?  It took 5 hours over our DSL connection to download it.  I haven't seen any other titles that require this (don't buy every new release).  This is a 3 disc package including DVD.  I'd think they could have squeezed it in there somewhere.  Is it just me?

It's definitely a player issue.   I have similar problems with every Warner disc I have seen that has a branching "In-Movie-Experience" feature, such as "Sherlock Holmes" and "Watchmen."  I haven't watched my copy of "Inception" yet but I anticipate I'll have a similar experience.  I'm using the Samsung BD-P3600 and it is not at all fond of seamless branching.  I'm running the most recent firmware but Samsung has yet to fix this issue.  I've also had branching hang-ups on Star Trek: TOS and Avatar CE.  Oddly, I don't recall noticing any branching problems with the Alien Anthology discs. 

I can also confirm this is a Samsung player issue.  I have a BD-P4600 and have encountered the same issue, not just on 'Inception' but on numerous other BDs.  A slight 'hiccup' occurs and the sound drops out, followed by the picture scrambling to 'keep up.'  From that point forward the audio is often out of sync with the video.  I then have to do a quick rewind/scan and then press play again to re-sequence the audio and video.

In particular regards to Inception, the film hiccuped in two distinct places.  I don't exactly recall the second place, but the first was indeed in the Castle/Opening sequence.  Both times it occurred were during scenes with sudden, loud audio (momentous, dramatic scenes), so it is very distracting.  

I will not purchase a Samsung BD player again.  While the Netflix compatibility has been nice, incompatibility issues abound (there was a time when all Lionsgate blu rays glitched, and we had to wait weeks for Samsung to release their patch).  The Samsung reps who deal with the public (most notably on the CNET forums) are trained to never admit there is a problem until after a patch is released, so timetables for new firmware is nearly impossible to come by.

Another word of advice for anyone experiencing loading issues.  Disable BD-Live.  In 95% of cases, that will fix your problem.

Watched the first half hour closely last night, and no problems on a Panasonic.BDT-107.

I just watched Inception on a Samsung BD-C6500 and it got out of sync twice. I had to go back a scene and fast forward to where I was to get it in sync again. The firmware is updated too.

I watched it on a Sony BD-360 and had no problems at all with it.

This also happened on my parents' Insignia player.  The skips occur at points where the "Extraction Mode" branching segments would play, even if you aren't watching it with "Extraction Mode."

No problems playing Inception on my Sony BDP-S350, and it was a rental disc. This has to be a player problem.

I have a sound issue also which I asked about in a previous post wondering if it was my player. Right after the chase/shooting scene, they went into a warehouse and started arguing about what had happened. That is where my sound just quits on me. I pause, then hit play again, and the sound is back. It also did it in the same place the next time. Very irritating.  

I never had any problems playing this disc on my PS3. These problems sound like player issues. When properly done, BD is a great media for reproducing "film-like" images, but it is sad that a format that has been on the market for a number of years now still has issues playing discs, without regular firmware updates.

I've had no problems of any kind with my copy of Inception, and I'm using a Panasonic BD35 (or30??) which has had no firmware updates since 2008.

As to sync issues: my Panasonic theater system has only 1 optical audio input - so, since I have both a bluray player and a cable box running to the same input, I have to use an optical splitter in reverse (two outputs to one input). The TV is a 50" Panasonic Viera flatscreen I've noticed that when I switch over from cable to bluray and do not turn off the cable output and wait for the device to "settle" before shifting the flat screen inputs from HDM2 (cable) to HDM1 (bluray), there will be fairly serious asynchronicity until I first shut everything down, count to 10 (slowly) and then reboot everything, so to say.

I also have a sammy  blu ray and it also skips or has sound sync issues.  Has there been a firmware update for this?  Anyone done an update recently?

Thanks,

Dave

I have the sammy 2550 bluray player and I get drops in audio/ out of sync issues, where I have to pause to fix it,  I am on frimware 2.7 the newest.  Very annoying for me because it occurs when the train strikes the car and I have to pause it to fix it :(.  Its my favorite movie to :(.

OK, does anybody have any ideas on this? I have a Samsung HTC5500, and just got the new firmware, and it still does it, and it happens  the worst on Watchman. Just talked to tech support and they told me to reset my system...again.... since I got the new update. I have also disabled BD live and it still does it. It is only on these warner discs that have this immersive movie mode. It seems like it's only happening on Samsung players. Would it work if you adjust the a/v sync?

I have a samsung BD6500 with the latest firmware and,  like everyone says here, watching Inception was difficult.  Aside from trying to figure out what the hell was going on with the plot, there were several minor freezes and a/v synch issues.  Sometimes pausing the movie corrected the a/v problem.   

I have a Sony and had the same problem at the same time (about ten minutes in). I upgraded the firmware and the problem continued.I exchanged the disc and the problem disappeared.