Tonight Tasha wanted to watch a movie, so she selected her new Sherlock Holmes Blu-Ray disc. We got through the previews, and the title menu ended up with music only and no picture, and my Memorex MVBD2510 refused to take further input. A quick google later revealed that newer discs have new copy protection (thank you Hollywood, for protecting me against using something I bought from you) and the firmware needs updated.
No problem, I’m a smart guy, I can do this. There was a download and instructions, so I downloaded and followed instructions which noted (ominously) that you should only use CD-R discs to burn this firmware update. No problem, I happen to have a spindle of Memorex CD-R’s right here!
Well, so far I’ve wasted 6 of them. Apparently this Blu-Ray player is really finicky about what format it reads and it only likes iso9660 format. I tried Windows 7’s built-in burner, Nero, and now MagicISO to try to get the format right to no avail. I’ve got two more options to try before I contact Memorex support, but I sure would like a company to not make an ultra-crappy product for a change.
BTW, the Internet is littered with forum posters that are having exactly the same problem as I am… interestingly the method with the most success is burning the thing with Toast software on a Mac. I don’t have either of those sadly. If I don’t get it with my own burning methods, I sure do hope that Memorex can send me a pre-burned disc that will work with this boat anchor of a drive they sold me.
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