Samsung update blu ray player

The internet services, such as Netflix and Pandora, stopped working on the 2 older players some time ago. I only noticed it about 6 months ago. It appears Samsung pulled the plug on something on their servers. I agree with you. Only freebie was YouTube and a bunch of garbage.. Then I also found out that TCL ,love Roku, have series 4, 5,6 ,and 8,,which means quaility picture like those samsungs.

When I moved in to my home I thought of Samsung as a decent brand, and purchased their TV, fridge, dishwasher and washing machine. This was six years ago. TV is holding on, but occasionally has blue lines through it. Might be an excuse to grab one of these fancy 4K TVs everyone raves about.

Fridge has many snapped shelves and is rather noisy, despite cleaning out the compressor area. I called Samsung and they walked me through a Hard reset but it failed. So they paid for my model unit to be shipped to their facility in NJ. Going back to Kenmore appliances!!!! This is theft. It is no different than if an agent of Samsung walked in the front door, smashed the device with a hammer, and walked away.

So let the class-action begin. The life of the product, is defined by the term of the warranty. In nearly all parts of the US, when you buy a consumer electronics product, it is as a regular sale regulated by Uniform Commercial Code. If the understanding of one party is reasonably at odds with the conditions of a regular sale or contract, then there is no sale or contract.

The exchange of money is not valid. The potential loss of future sales income would far exceed their cost to pay the expertise to find a solution, IF there is one possible.

No sign of a battery of any sort. These things are remarkably simple. One user hooked his failed player to an ethernet NTP server he set up with an earlier date and time to see if that would help. No change. After the bootup period during which no video is produced, the normal start screen appears with the selection of uses — but only for a fraction of a second. It then disappears and the cycle repeats. The player buttons have no effect. Only the eject button on the remote works fortunately — allowing removal of any disk from the sick player.

Regarding page views — Samsung Community forum pages have ten postings per page. The above is correct. One cannot update the Firmware, we cannot get to the Settings Menu. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Reading this allowed me to rescue my disc that has been being held hostage for a effing month!

We had two Blu-ray players get stuck in the boot loop in one morning. What tools do you have at your disposal to try figure out what is going on, and what may be possible to fix? Unfortunately my resources are probably quite limited here compared to others. My first thought was start sniffing network traffic, but it sounds like others have already done that to no avail. Why would a tool suck simply for working exactly as intended? Does a hammer suck just because someone else used one to smash your finger?

I think you misunderstand the purpose of SSL here. It is not being used to benefit you, it is being used by others to harm you. It is Bluray publishers using it against you that sucks. Perhaps, but this required maintenance is generally all right up front and clear clear in the sense it is complex Even basic introductions to PKI talk of how much needs to go into things to work and work well. Anything equivalent in safety features is equally complex even if the details are different.

That it inconveniences everyone with their Bluray player was chosen by design. The players not playing movies is exactly what this encryption is intended to do. Except that path is a horrible one to look down.

It seems all but guaranteed it will be us banned from having it. It could equally be a certificate used to verify automated updates, which protects you from security flaws in non-updated players, or from malicious Trojan updates. We, as a whole, make Hackaday better- yes, by educating one another- but also being kind, and not passive aggressive to others.

I appreciate the point you made, but not the way you made it. It is ridiculous that they are stopping making Blu-Ray players. What are we supposed to do with our Blu-Ray disks? I prefer getting programs and movies on physical media because they are easier to keep track of than virtual ones. One does not have to make back-ups as much. And the physical discs you buy will continue to work long after the corporate entities that created them cease to exist or care enough to keep them running.

Which also guarantees being perpetually stuck with streaming quality video for that series or movie in question, which is absolute garbage for anyone who cares about video quality. Never fear. Ten or twenty years from now someone will hack a whatchacallit, make a retro blue-ray player, and all those disks you have mouldering away in your garage will become golden oldies. Is there an RTC clock battery on-board?

Unplug it to reset the time and date, then see what happens? There are probably a number of certificates in the machines. The things that are needed just to decode some media files is crazy. No matter the case, the consumer is screwed by shoddy workmanship. They are apparently optional; but if a device intends to support time-based access conditions the spec requires that the RTC either be tamper resistant or the system nuke all time-based permissions on RTC tamper detection.

Can press please stop reporting page counts on forum threads? Forums can have any number of posts per page. Ranges from 10 to 50 are common but there are outliers that are even more extreme! Well, I suppose the lower boundary is 2… … what still would accumulate to a somewhat meaningful amount of bad PR ;. We could easily make this problem seem so much worse by making that post count SO much larger….

We programmed a neural net based AI to train itself from all possible hardware fixes on the internet. Place drive in the freezer for 2 hours, then wrap it in a rice towel, power up device while holding F3, blow in the slot, install windows 10 fresh off a USB stick, cook to an internal temperature of F or until juices run clear, if too runny add more flour, fold a wad of cardboard and insert under one leg, if red make green, hit to within one inch clearance at rear of unit.

Specifically, I have two players of the same model that failed something like 10 hours apart. People that were supposed to take over have no clue. How long should I wait until I give up on there being a solution? What ever happened to software development as an art form? Or even as a science?

It may be even funnier than that. They have have contracted someone to design the unit and than canned them or axed them after delivery.

I worked in a place where something like this happened. I do think they may have saved some cash over the few years things worked flawlessly not paying a salary and insurance and all the benefits etc, but the guy got a job and did not really need them when they needed him again. It cost them a lot more than they ever thought. It -is- an art. My old GPS on bootup will only connect to localhost on Similar behavior there. Pull the rtc battery and try to turn it on while unplugged then plug it in and turn it on again.

See what happens. Then stop buying Samsung. They have lots of bugs that tend to suddenly brick devices it seems. Samsung is hardly alone in this. For example, I have an LG oven, washing machine, air conditioner, and a few other appliances, and love them. Baby monitors, dash cams, BTLE tool trackers, you name it… so much great hardware ruined by terrible software and firmware. My Futureshop house brand non-smart TV locks up on one of the local off the air stations.

Both remote and physical buttons on TV stopped working and needs a physical pulling the plug. My guess is the program info or close captioning must have some weird data that crash the firmware. In general countries asia that are good in hardware fails at software. Samsung stopped making blu-ray players a while back because apparently no one wants to own their films anymore a. Stop wasting your time on Samsung forums with Samsung staff pretending to give a toss and just invest in a Panasonic or Sony blu-ray player.

Then enjoy that quaint old fashioned concept of owning your films that you paid for as opposed to them being pulled at will, edited, then given back just because some wailing freak on twitter is offended by them. If a magci dat plays a role in this, I wonder whether there might be a clock value overflow of some kind. We should probably be seeing a Raspberry Pi swap in soon enough. Then you can program in your own feature creep!

OK, So I have three of these things the model , one on each of three monitors in the home. I called Samsung, and figuring the third one was not long for this world, asked for 3 RMA numbers. Does this mean that the problem is fixed and I only have to send in two units? Initial reports about this problem suggested that a crypto certificate had expired.

A couple days after that my Samsung laser printer stopped taking jobs. Thinking about the blu-ray player problem, my first thought was that my printer probably had the same issue.

And that turned out to be true, and a brand new firmware update was available that solved the problem. No wonder my samsung dvd player stopped working.

It just keeps making the sound it does when I open the DVD player. Until we come up with a way to make hard drives that never get bit rot, disk backups are still a thing dude. I really would pay for a rotless format. Every file is eventually stored on some physical item somewhere, even the cloud is made of servers.

Physical media is needed in somd form, period. You just sound like yet another pundit proclaiming the flying car future, convinced that because you can stream everything you personally happen to want, that makes it somehow universal reality.

Not the pundit you need.. Bit rot, is still real, and my data is stored on the cloud with SSD data center with backup, Your mileage will vary..

A cell phone without a SIM card still has service. How do you think they say emergency calls only when you turn on a cell phone with no sim? None of my players are ever connected online. Bad enough my old tv reported back to google and my current tells roku what I watch. This has just happened to me in January I gave the player a WiFi password and it now has the boot loop. Samsung sends something to break my device and then requires money to fix it! Anybody feel like a class action?

Quite astonishing indeed that manufacturer can break the device like this and then they refuse to fix it free of charge leaving end user with piece of unusable electronic garbage. Not going to buy another Samsung product. Please be kind and respectful to help make the comments section excellent. Comment Policy. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality and advertising cookies.

Learn more. Report comment. I wonder if that is still legal in the EU with those data protection laws that make websites fire up annoying consent boxes all the time now… Not even sure in many of these devices I would call it convenient — many of them are just duplication of effort.

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