James Delahunty
7 Jan 2007 2:17
The recently released Blu-ray title, The Descent, is reportedly causing big playback issues with some early Blu-ray Disc players. Apparently, the cause is that some of the first Blu-ray Disc players don't support the BD-Java environment, which is used for interactivity features on Blu-ray titles. The movie is reported to give a black screen on some of the players.
The Sony BDP-S1 player and Pioneer's BDP-HD1 are affected the worst by the problem. Sony has promised a firmware update, early this year, to add BD-J support but the Pioneer users are out of luck for now. Samsung's BD-P1000, Panasonic's players and the PlayStation 3 all are reported to play back the disc fine.
Some Samsung players need the latest available firmware installed to overcome glitches.
Source:
Engadget HD