A Bugs Life (Blu-Ray)... PROBLEMS!

[joegator81]

I have now gone through 2 Blu-Ray discs of A Bugs Life. I recieved both of them new from Amazon.com. Both discs have had the same very noticable and very annoying problem. The is a very obvious, loud, and possibly dangerous (for the speakers) distortion that appears in the surround channels during certain scenes. The distortion comes in at the same loud volume regardless of whether i have my receiver set to a low or high listening level. I first noticed it during the scene when the grasshoppers arrive. It continues during different scenes throughout the movie and becomes very bad at the end. The distortion is only in the surround channels and does not occur w/ any other movies that i own which leads me to believe that the only logical conclusion is a flaw in the audio of the disc/mix itself.

Has anyone else had the same problem???

 

[j_garcia]

Might be usefull to mention what player you have.

I have had no problems with this movie on my Oppo, but haven't tried the PS3.

 

[joegator81]

i'm using the samsung P-1500. I believe i have uploaded all the firmware updates so that shouldnt be a problem. I've tried 3 sets of speakers and i've played the movie through multi channel in and direct, 5 ch stereo and matrix. The popping sound occurs in all of these settings but whats interesting is that the matrix moves the popping to the front channels which leads me to believe that the defect is in the disc soundtrack itself and has nothing to do with overloading or overdriving the speakers.

let me know what happens with your PS3.

 

[j_garcia]

Didn't get a chance last night; will try it today and let you know.

 

[jostenmeat]

I've already watched this movie twice on my Panasonic BD30. Smooth as butter.

Samsung's FW support of the 1500 seemed to be pretty lacking, historically. I hope that it's not the case, but I don't know.

 

[j_garcia]

I've already watched this movie twice on my Panasonic BD30. Smooth as butter.

Samsung's FW support of the 1500 seemed to be pretty lacking, historically. I hope that it's not the case, but I don't know.

I didn't watch the whole thing, but no apparent issues with the PS3 either. Sounds like it is your player that doesn't like the disc.

 

[joegator81]

well, i FINALLY fixed the problem. My samsung blu ray player was on a default setting outputting PCM instead of bitstream that would let the receiver decode DTS Master HD. I switched the setting to bitstream, i also turned off dynamic compression and pcm downsampling in the setting menu but i don't think either of those settings were the problem. anyway, problem solved. thanks for a the help, everybody, much appreciated

 

[Lordoftherings]

You should have thought twice about it.

That's good news,
but, to be more accurate, the title of your thread should have been: "I did not set the proper audio output on my Sammy BD-P1500!"

Now, everybody that is going to see this thread with this title, will be having a double look before purchasing "A Bug's Life" on blu-ray!

Then, in this case, the title of your thread was not chosen intelligently.

Just my 0.02 cents.

 

[j_garcia]

That's good news,
but, to be more accurate, the title of your thread should have been: "I did not set the proper audio output on my Sammy BD-P1500!"

Just my 0.02 cents.

He didn't know that until now I'm glad it was just a setting and not something that could not be fixed.

 

[joegator81]

That's good news,
but, to be more accurate, the title of your thread should have been: "I did not set the proper audio output on my Sammy BD-P1500!"

Now, everybody that is going to see this thread with this title, will be having a double look before purchasing "A Bug's Life" on blu-ray!

Then, in this case, the title of your thread was not chosen intelligently.

Just my 0.02 cents.

supposed constructive criticism aside. The disc still shouldnt make that popping noise w/ the PCM setting. Maybe its the blue ray player itself. The whole point of the post was getting helpful suggestions on how to fix a PROBLEM i was having w/ a bugs life... and it was a problem.

just curious, you werent one of those kids whose mom kept saying "if your friend jimmy jumped off a building would you do it too???", b/c i can't for the life of me believe that someone wouldnt buy the movie b/c i had a problem w/ it. just sayin'