[tarkken]

I wanted to know if anyone has tried the version 1.6 or 2.0 versions of this firmware, and if BD-R/BD-RE's are playing successfully? As I recall, version 1.55 worked fine. I may be running into one of these units again, and I don't want to make any mistakes.

Unfortunately, it sounds like Sony has some fishy things going on with BD-R - want to have a stable player at a minimum, and a platform to suggest for potential clients.

Thanks.

[noreturn river outdoors]

I couldn't get my 1.5 version to play the -R disks, would only play the RE's.
Then I got the 2.0 upgrade and after much consideration, I installed it. The installation happened without incident and low and behold -R would "play". The menu buttons and functions will not work but the playfirst took over and played.
Good Luck on your end!

This post has been edited by noreturn river outdoors: 04 August 2007 - 04:20 PM

[DonHDV]

I wanted to know if anyone has tried the version 1.6 or 2.0 versions of this firmware, and if BD-R/BD-RE's are playing successfully? As I recall, version 1.55 worked fine. Thanks.

I think I was out of town and skipped 1.6 but have been using 2.0 regularly with my Sony BDP-S1 to play my DVDit Pro HD BDMV discs on BD-R, BD-RE and DVD media. (DVDs done without the AACS folder and bit rate kept to 22Mbps/sec average as described elsewhere). My BD-R media has been the excellent Imation inkjet printable discs.

This post has been edited by DonHDV: 10 August 2007 - 07:42 AM