James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your...

James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / ... | Sean Connery, Roger Moore | James Bond on Blu-Ray require Firmware Update to play (also the Pioneer BDP-95FD)

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	James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / ... Sean Connery, Roger Moore average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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Firmware updates are coming!

Everyone just calm down. Rest assured that firmware updates will solve your playability issues. Sony has already issued a statement confirming they will release new updates some time next week to fix the problem. Other manufacturers are expected to follow suit. So don't pawn off you box sets just yet. Just be patient. The problem will fix itself.

James Bond on Blu-Ray require Firmware Update to play (also the Pioneer BDP-95FD)

All newly released James Bond movies are definitely worth the money. Awesome picture quality, and all sound was remixed to 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, while making available the original mono sound also for the older James Bond.

However, on my Pioneer Elite BDP-95FD player, with Firmware 3.30 installed, only 4 out of 6 James Bond movies play okay. The ones that don't play are "Die another Day", and "Live and let die". Mostly the menu doesn't load, or if it does after you select to play the movie from the menu, it hangs. Also, the extras don't play.

Seems like the studios were messing with BD-Java and did not inform any hardware vendors out there ahead of time, which is the reason why these movies basically don't play on most players.

Good news though is there will be firmware upgrades. Pioneer already has an upgrade (supposedly) but it's not available for download yet.

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Compatablity Issues

I had the same problems most people seem to have with regards to the discs not playing. After a few tries I decided to access the movie through the scene selection and it worked just fine, although if I want to watch features after the movie I have to reload the disc. Once the movie loads it works fine. The picture and sound is superb compared to the Ultimate DVD's and overwhelming compared to the original special edition DVD's. Sony has promised a firmware upgrade within the week to solve this compatibility problem and when that comes out we'll see if it fixes this. My model is the BD-S300 and with a few minor detours I can get the movies playing. Don't give up just yet, the repairs are coming. As for other models, I can only hope firmware upgrades will be coming shortly.

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Defective?

Using PowerDVD 7, Die Another Day sits at a black screen. The other 5 movies play fine. So I wonder do I have a defective disc, or a non-compatible disc. Will a replacement disc fix the problem or are they all like this? Is Fox messing about with the copy protection?

The 5 discs that work all look and sound great. If they all worked this would be a near perfect release.

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