The Drifter
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Hey everyone. I need some advice regarding my Samsung Player BD-J5100, and figured this would be the best place to come:
I got this Blu player new around November 2017 and it has played DVD's & Blu's perfectly - until now. Recently, it didn't play two Blu's at all: The River's Edge (1986) and Dumb & Dumber (2004); I kept getting an error message when it tried to load both of them. I turned the machine off and on; unplugged this multiple times; etc. - and it still didn't work re: these two movies.
Note that it plays most other Blu's, and it also plays all regular DVD's perfectly.
At this point, my concern is that it will continue to not play Blu's - in addition to the two it's already not playing. My first thought was that I needed a firmware update, but the problem is that the player is not Wireless (it's Wired) & it's not connected to the Internet at all. So, if a firmware update is needed, what would be the best way to go about doing this? Should I buy a USB device, load the firmware onto the USB device (from the Internet), and then load it on the player? If so, is there a specific place online to go where I can get these firmware updates? And, if I do this, should that solve the problem?
I also thought there may be an issue with the laser reading the Blu's (that was in issue with an older Blu player I had, which I had to get rid of), but the fact that it's playing most Blu's without a problem makes me think it's more of a software issue, than a hardware issue with the player.
Any advice that would help with this issue would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!
I got this Blu player new around November 2017 and it has played DVD's & Blu's perfectly - until now. Recently, it didn't play two Blu's at all: The River's Edge (1986) and Dumb & Dumber (2004); I kept getting an error message when it tried to load both of them. I turned the machine off and on; unplugged this multiple times; etc. - and it still didn't work re: these two movies.
Note that it plays most other Blu's, and it also plays all regular DVD's perfectly.
At this point, my concern is that it will continue to not play Blu's - in addition to the two it's already not playing. My first thought was that I needed a firmware update, but the problem is that the player is not Wireless (it's Wired) & it's not connected to the Internet at all. So, if a firmware update is needed, what would be the best way to go about doing this? Should I buy a USB device, load the firmware onto the USB device (from the Internet), and then load it on the player? If so, is there a specific place online to go where I can get these firmware updates? And, if I do this, should that solve the problem?
I also thought there may be an issue with the laser reading the Blu's (that was in issue with an older Blu player I had, which I had to get rid of), but the fact that it's playing most Blu's without a problem makes me think it's more of a software issue, than a hardware issue with the player.
Any advice that would help with this issue would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!