I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately of discs that I receive from Netflix or Redbox that do not work with my Blu Ray player. It is a Samsung BD-UP5000, a relic from the HD Wars that offered solace to any who refused to choose between one format or the other. It plays both Blu Ray and HD DVD discs, and as the wise diviner “bluflu” foretold:

“This player will be a nice upgrade path to Blu-ray for current owners of HD DVD discs when HD DVD goes under.”

As owners may know, the BD-UP5000 is no longer supported, and the Blu Ray version was capped at BD profile 1.1. It seems now that studios are releasing discs that will not only be unable to make use of BD 2.0 features (like Internet connectivity, which is expected) but also won’t even play the movie. Below is the beginning of a list of movies that I have found to be incompatible with my “old” Blu Ray player. I’ll update it as I find more.

• Hot Tub Time Machine
• Splice
• Salt
• Knight and Day

Please feel free to comment, adding any that you know of.

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