Beware: The new Disney Blu-Ray DVD "Pixar Shorts" released today won't play on the Pioneer Elite BDP94-HD

[moi]

Not sure how many Blu-Ray people are in here, but save your money if
you were interested in this dvd (which I'm sure is great...if I could
only watch it) if you own the Pioneer Elite BDP94-HD.

Openings, Trailers, FBI Warnings (figures) all play just fine.
But when the main program starts, the screen goes black, the word
"loading" comes up repeatedly about 5 times, and then the machine
crashes.

I installed the firmware on Pioneers site, so I'm up to date.
I dropped Pioneer an email about this, but I doubt that they will even
read it.

Don't buy this dvd. Unless all you want to do is look at the artwork
on the case.

[mykey]

On Nov 7, 1:08 am, moi <m...@mybum.net> wrote:
> Not sure how many Blu-Ray people are in here, but save your money if
> you were interested in this dvd (which I'm sure is great...if I could
> only watch it) if you own the Pioneer Elite BDP94-HD.
>
> Openings, Trailers, FBI Warnings (figures) all play just fine.
> But when the main program starts, the screen goes black, the word
> "loading" comes up repeatedly about 5 times, and then the machine
> crashes.
>
> I installed the firmware on Pioneers site, so I'm up to date.
> I dropped Pioneer an email about this, but I doubt that they will even
> read it.
>
> Don't buy this dvd. Unless all you want to do is look at the artwork
> on the case.

this is a defective DVD which should be exchanged. But you are right,
pioneer does not care if your player is right or not. This time it's
probably the disk that's bad.
The trend seems to be that the more "advanced" and expensive DVD
player is, the less reliable it becomes. The cheap ones work much
better.

[ninphan]

On Nov 7, 2:41 pm, mykey <mykeymyke...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 1:08 am, moi <m...@mybum.net> wrote:
>
> > Not sure how many Blu-Ray people are in here, but save your money if
> > you were interested in this dvd (which I'm sure is great...if I could
> > only watch it) if you own the Pioneer Elite BDP94-HD.
>
> > Openings, Trailers, FBI Warnings (figures) all play just fine.
> > But when the main program starts, the screen goes black, the word
> > "loading" comes up repeatedly about 5 times, and then the machine
> > crashes.
>
> > I installed the firmware on Pioneers site, so I'm up to date.
> > I dropped Pioneer an email about this, but I doubt that they will even
> > read it.
>
> > Don't buy this dvd. Unless all you want to do is look at the artwork
> > on the case.
>
> this is a defective DVD which should be exchanged. But you are right,
> pioneer does not care if your player is right or not. This time it's
> probably the disk that's bad.
> The trend seems to be that the more "advanced" and expensive DVD
> player is, the less reliable it becomes. The cheap ones work much
> better.

You guys are foolish to think Pioneer doesn't want its players to be
considered the premiere Blu-ray Disc players on the market.
Why would you "drop them an e-mail" over something like a disc not
working?
You should call their customer service. I rarely wait long at all for
Pioneer's help desk. The sooner they know about a disc issue, the
sooner they'll issue a firmware upgrade on it.
There's also a chance your disc is faulty. Take it to your local store
and try it on a Samsung, Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, PS3 or Philips Blu-
ray device and see if it works on one of those - if it doesn't the
disc is faulty and the issuing store should replace it for you.