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.

Dear Coca-Cola,

Full Throttle Zero

It appears that you have stopped making Full Throttle Zero, as I can no longer find it anywhere. Did you ever consider that the people that like Coca-Cola Zero and the cherry version might also be the ones that drink Full Throttle Zero?

I am upset, as it was my favorite sugar-free energy drink. Now you don’t have any. I guess I have to make the full-time switch to the less-amazing Rockstar (sugarfree) or Venom Mojave Rattler.

So long,
Chris