ps3 won't read Donnie Darko Blu-ray - will read others - help!

mystic86 · 19-03-2011 09:07PM #1

I have Donnie Darko bluray that i bought from hmv online... it won't work on my ps3... it shows the very first screen of the disk for a couple of seconds showing a generic warning that you see at the start of movies but then it suddendly cuts out and on my tv it cuts to the generic blue screen and says on the top right of the screen that there is no signal...the ps3 has to be restarted to work on tv again even though the ps3 is still on it wont show on the tv - says no signal.

it plays other blu-rays fine...any ideas whats going on???

iMuse · 19-03-2011 10:43PM

Is your ps3 on the latest firmware? Can you try it on a friends ps3/blu ray player? Otherwise it could be a faulty disc

20-03-2011 12:49AM

I had a similar problem with the Predators blu ray. It wouldn't play after the latest firmware update. Go into the blu ray settings and set the network connection from always allow to confirm. Play the disc again and it should ask you to allow it to connect to the net. Select no and it should play away. Worked for me.

Suspiria79 · 20-03-2011 03:56AM

"No duh" is a product of fear

mystic86 · 20-03-2011 05:40PM

iMuse wrote: »

Is your ps3 on the latest firmware? Can you try it on a friends ps3/blu ray player? Otherwise it could be a faulty disc

hi, yes its on the latest firmware. i will try and try it elsewhere but i don't have one living nearby so i dunno wen i'll get to do it

mystic86 · 20-03-2011 05:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I had a similar problem with the Predators blu ray. It wouldn't play after the latest firmware update. Go into the blu ray settings and set the network connection from always allow to confirm. Play the disc again and it should ask you to allow it to connect to the net. Select no and it should play away. Worked for me.

thanks for the response, when i saw this i was sure it was gonna solve my problem

unfortunately it didn't

any more suggestions?

mystic86 · 20-03-2011 05:42PM

Suspiria79 wrote: »

"No duh" is a product of fear

???

Suspiria79 · 20-03-2011 07:24PM

Don't worry. You got away with it.

noodler · 20-03-2011 09:26PM

The world is going to end.

mystic86 · 20-03-2011 09:40PM

noodler wrote: »

The world is going to end.

thanks man, that should help

noodler · 20-03-2011 09:41PM

mystic86 wrote: »

thanks man, that should help

Sorry mate, me and the other posters are just throwing out cool quotes from the movie in question.

Didn't mean to be smart.

Voodu Child · 20-03-2011 11:13PM

Could be disc rot. Some discs or batches of discs get it due to manufacturing defects, impurities etc.

If you can confirm that it's disc rot (by visual inspection, or trying in other players etc) then the movie company might replace it if you contact them.

mystic86 · 20-03-2011 11:15PM

Voodu Child wrote: »

Could be disc rot. Some discs or batches of discs get it due to manufacturing defects, impurities etc.

If you can confirm that it's disc rot (by visual inspection, or trying in other players etc) then the movie company might replace it if you contact them.

hi, thanks for the reply, i have checked it and it looks perfect, i recieved it for christmas but only took it out of the wrapper a few days ago.....

annoying little problem this.

20-03-2011 11:21PM

Don't know if this will help,check out your settings.
Maybe the blueray can only be played in 720 and your out putting at 1080 or vice versa.
Something similar happened to me while paying a game on ps3,was playing fine before an update,after update got nothing but a blank screen once the game started to load.Turn out to be my settings, can't recall if it was 50hz/60hz thing or the 720p/1080p thing.

Worth a try.

mystic86 · 20-03-2011 11:23PM

jaybee747 wrote: »

Don't know if this will help,check out your settings.
Maybe the blueray can only be played in 720 and your out putting at 1080 or vice versa.
Something similar happened to me while paying a game on ps3,was playing fine before an update,after update got nothing but a blank screen once the game started to load.Turn out to be my settings, can't recall if it was 50hz/60hz thing or the 720p/1080p thing.

Worth a try.

hi, thanks man, will check it out shortly - can you tell me what specifically you had to change in the settings section? thanks

Suspiria79 · 21-03-2011 01:06AM

Mystic86, I promise, that one day, everything's going to be better for you.

mystic86 · 21-03-2011 10:17PM

jaybee747 wrote: »

Don't know if this will help,check out your settings.
Maybe the blueray can only be played in 720 and your out putting at 1080 or vice versa.
Something similar happened to me while paying a game on ps3,was playing fine before an update,after update got nothing but a blank screen once the game started to load.Turn out to be my settings, can't recall if it was 50hz/60hz thing or the 720p/1080p thing.

Worth a try.

i tried messing around with all the settings and couldn't get it to work

maybe i'm not changing the right settings though........ any specific advice of what to change?

Suspiria79 · 22-03-2011 12:46AM

mystic86... have I ever told you about my friend, Frank? The giant bunny rabbit.

johnny_ultimate · 22-03-2011 11:11AM

Suspiria 79, you've seen Donnie Darko, we get it. Let's stay on topic, yeah?

mystic86 · 22-03-2011 07:05PM

so today I went to my local electrical shop and got to try this disc on a stand-alone blu ray player, and it worked!!!

I'm stumped?!

kearneybobs · 22-03-2011 07:34PM

You could try to unplug your ethernet cable from the PS3 and turn off the internet connection for Bluray from 'allow' to 'confirm' too.
Next, go and delete the cache file for the bluray disc from the XMB. Reboot the PS3. It will hopefully work for you.

I was having a problem with inception on BD. It kept on freezing at the same spot. This solved it for me a couple of times but it sometimes was hit or miss. The unplugging of the ethernet cable for me was the thing that did it for me, for some reason unknown to me.

mystic86 · 22-03-2011 08:20PM

hi,

thanks, i dont use the cable i have wireless set up. i already have it set to confirm and i always click no on startup.... delete the cache you say? you mean in the BD Data Utility folder at the top??

Cause i looked in there and there was no file for this movie in there....

any more ideas? thanks

kearneybobs · 22-03-2011 08:41PM

Im afraid to say that I'm fairly stumped after that. Sorry.

mystic86 · 22-03-2011 08:46PM

cheers man, see this thread:

http://community.us.playstation.com/thread/1730729?start=0&tstart=0

post number 1 is the same problem I am having, in post number 3 a solution was put forward that worked for the OP and many others who replied in there, I tried it and it didn't work.....

this really is amazing

mystic86 · 22-03-2011 08:57PM

the above worked, i just needed to hold on button for double click to reset after doing the above and with that disabled it worked. wuhoooo, finally!

thanks guys

ps3 won't read Donnie Darko Blu-ray - will read others - help!

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