need help: Seiki blu-ray player unable to play JUST the latest movies

this is that wal-mart / seiki blu-ray player. call the BD660

It can play all blu-ray movies just fine until this week, where 2 of the latest release, X-men, days of future past, and Dawn of the planet of the apes, cannot play. It stuck at the very beginning, the disc spin, and nothing happens.

Now it can play everything else. I'm watching On stranger tides right now. It play just fine. And all the other new blu-ray movies, so far they play fine too. But I wonder if there would be more and more of movies that I can't play and why?

I can't find anything about that player. All I can find is an LG BD660. Must be pretty obscure.

What firmware are you running on this device? I will bet that there is some new bluray junk that needs an update to work correctly ... take a look at http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wm-seiki-bd-live-blu-ray-player-bd660-893497/35/
V5.0 F6 is out but there may be issues with that

or take a look at this thread https://forum.slysoft.com/showthrea...-2014-)-BD-problem-Region-A-B-C-(multi)/page6
look like a bd+ issue maybe .... yuck

In all honesty I would reall look at getting a more mainstream bluray player

Happy Hopping said:

this is that wal-mart / seiki blu-ray player. call the BD660

It can play all blu-ray movies just fine until this week, where 2 of the latest release, X-men, days of future past, and Dawn of the planet of the apes, cannot play. It stuck at the very beginning, the disc spin, and nothing happens.

Now it can play everything else. I'm watching On stranger tides right now. It play just fine. And all the other new blu-ray movies, so far they play fine too. But I wonder if there would be more and more of movies that I can't play and why?

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Blu ray has changed over time which is why firmware updates are important. You'll need to see if there is a firmware update for it. Its usually done over a network or USB. If there isn't a firmware update you're SOL with that player.

that blu-ray player does not allow firmware update

Why do they insist on making it hard for paying customers to play these discs?
DRM does nothing to stop the pirates, and I think it actually promotes pirating.

Its a similar thing with the 4K capable HDMI 2.0 standard.

When released it was using a protection system called HDCP 2.0, this is required in the player and whatever it connects to, whether it be an AV amplifier or display. The connection between the AV amp and display must conform as well.
This has been upgraded to HDCP 2.2.
After some time, 4K movies will be released that wont work if anything in the display chain is the older version of HDCP.
So for no useful reason, people who pay for genuine media will suffer.
Yet those who find it elsewhere can play it on anything.
They wonder why it gets downloaded.

Even worse, HDCP2.2 saps some of HDMI 2.0's bandwidth such that it there isnt enough space left to send colour uncompressed at 4K 60Hz.
The colour compression makes pixels adjacent to those used by text look off colour.
So computer users will struggle to make their text look sharp on HDCP 2.2 displays at default resolution.


If you cant get a firmware update for your player to conform to the newer copy protection, you may be out of luck when using genuine media.
Unfortunate.

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What Zepher said ^

You should've bought a quality brand name, like Changhong.

which major brand offer a ALL Region blu-ray player and gives ongoing firmware update?

AND Play those old Real Player RM files

Happy Hopping said:

which major brand offer a ALL Region blu-ray player and gives ongoing firmware update?

AND Play those old Real Player RM files

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Doesn't exist, pretty much all set-top form factor players will be region locked.
#2 just isn't going to happen with anything shy of a HTPC with something like VLC.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-BDP-S5...635?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dc12800b

but it does.

There are some for sure and others can be converted to region free, prices vary wildly.

ie my Oppo has a lot of BD region free kits (DVD is already region free)
like these:
http://www.jvbdigital.nl/jvb.asp?level=modifications&page=title&title=1234
120 Euro
http://www.bluraychip.dk/product.php?id_product=25
$160
http://www.bluraychip.dk/product.php?id_product=26
$90

The cheaper the player, the cheaper the mod generally, they like to milk expensive kit.
Search online for Region free kit or Region free hack, include your players model no.
Some players can be user hacked at little or no cost.

You may struggle to find a player that plays RM media files though.
Search user forum posts on AV websites.

I thought Oppo are always region free. That's the whole idea of Oppo.

Oppos focus is on well featured very high quality audio and video products.
They are bloody good!

Nenu said:

There are some for sure and others can be converted to region free, prices vary wildly.

ie my Oppo has a lot of BD region free kits (DVD is already region free)
like these:
http://www.jvbdigital.nl/jvb.asp?level=modifications&page=title&title=1234
120 Euro
http://www.bluraychip.dk/product.php?id_product=25
$160
http://www.bluraychip.dk/product.php?id_product=26
$90

The cheaper the player, the cheaper the mod generally, they like to milk expensive kit.
Search online for Region free kit or Region free hack, include your players model no.
Some players can be user hacked at little.

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I found this, and it is out of my element, I would rather pay that $40 extra

http://www.multiregionupgrades.com/bluray/models/bdps500.htm

it's not the 5200, but it seems to be the same principle