After several attempts, I finally got through to someone at Sony.
I was told to reset the player, by pressing Stop and Power (on the unit) simultaneously for 10 seconds. Lo and behold, the movie then played.
I was also told this would reset the player to factory defaults, but it didn't. Everything was as I had left it.
So... Sometimes Dogbert /is/ correct...
Hint: It would have been nice if you had disclosed the maker and model number of the problem Blue-Ray drive. An amazing number of problems can be fixed by firmware updates.
Hmmm... I couldn't find any reference to that using Google. Must be an inside secret. Don't tell anyone.
My guess(tm) is that it resets the region code.
Yep. I gave up reading Dilbert since I started losing hair in the middle and looking (and acting) like Pointy Hair Boss.
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Had you read the original post, you would have known that the player indeed had the latest firmware.
If it's of any interest... IJ&tKotCS plays fine, but "Starship Troopers" will not play. And it's a Sony (ie, Columbia) disk.
I shut the player off and unplugged it. Who knows...
Ooops, sorry. My NFilter spam trap ate your original message. I was reading the replies, which did not quote the model number.
Weird. So much for the region code theory. Which one? Starship Troopers One, Two, or Three?
Is this your posting (under an alias)?
If not, you're not the only one with a problem "Starship Troopers" Blu-Ray disk or player.
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The first.
In all sincerity, thank you for doing for me what I should have done for myself. It didn't occur to me to search for others with the same problem.
This is not my posting, but the description is identical. Guess I'm going to have to call Sony again.
One responder said "Maybe your player has its s***ty movie filter activated". "Starship Troopers" got really mixed reviews, with many reviewers rather missing the film's anti-war, anti-fascist message -- which were apparently not exactly what Robert Heinlein was thinking when he wrote the novel (which I have not read).
"STOP" and "POWER" together, or sometimes just holding "POWER" whilst applying line power, is a typical reset sequence, used by many manufacturers of many different types of equipment ...
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LOL.
The SS style uniforms on the intelligence officers were a bit of a giveaway.
The book is nothing like the movie. Seeing the movie after reading the book, it seems like the director had his tongue firmly in his cheek.
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No question. You have to be rather dense not to get it.
"William Sommerwerck" wrote in news:gsfj1s$i2h$ snipped-for-privacy@news.motzarella.org:
... "Starship Troopers" got really mixed reviews, with many
You might enjoy reading some extracts from one of Heinleins books. The extracts, which can be read at
Here are a few to whet your appetite:
[quote] Certainly the game is rigged. Don?t let that stop you; if you don?t bet, you can?t win.Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Always listen to experts. They?ll tell you what can?t be done and why. Then do it!
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?
If it can?t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. [unquote]
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