Generic USB Blu-ray firmware update help needed

Pillott12 · Mar 28, 2016

Hello,
I have a chinese made no-name usb blue ray player. It is more and more recently having trouble playing blue ray movies on my i5 dell laptop and nice i5 homebuilt gaming pc. I use Cyberlink PowerDVD primarily. The movies are usually the rentals from RedBox. The newer the movie, the more updated encryption method that my player is obviously struggling with. I would flash the firmware, but therein lies my problem. Who knows who made this thing. I only paid 35$ shipped a year ago. Often, the pc will not even want to boot without great hesitation with the blu ray left in the drive. Otherwise, it does all the regular dvd/cd stuff just fine. Is there any hope of updating an unknown makers firmware? I know blu-ray is not exactly perfect and will die off soon enough, so I do not want to throw money on a name brand either.

Thanks group

13thmonkey · Mar 28, 2016

I think that my plexor cost less than that. I suspect it's the decryption on the software that's the real problem here. That's why standalone bluray players run java, so that they can be updated.

photonboy · Mar 28, 2016

1) You haven't explained what you mean by "struggling"...

I don't know why you'd have to keep updating firmware when BluRay players from several years ago continue to work just fine. It sounds more like the unit is defective.

Or perhaps you have an issue with the REGION (not North American?).

2) BluRay will "die off soon"?
Not sure why you think that.

3) Firmware?
You can't update the firmware if you don't have a known link to it.

Pillott12 · Mar 28, 2016

13thmonkey :

Pillott12 · Mar 28, 2016

Thank you for your quick reply first off. What I do like about my current player is it is the only drive I use on my homebuilt system. I still need it for installing my Win 8.1 when I do the whole reformat/rebuild as most gamers do. I have done all the updating that the software allows, but, its the drive simply not even recognizing the disk as they are even labeled as rentals and thats the dilema. The firmware simply does not recognize it as even Being a blu-ray disk. On the other hand, please explain if and how your preferred players that use java can fit with my particular situation. That is a laptop and hombuilt system both with hdmi to my HD tv with the necessity of both using a usb player..

Thank you 13monkey's

13thmonkey · Mar 28, 2016

the standalone players (that plug directly into the TV) have java and that's where the decrypt happens, it's not a firmware decrypt, mine hasn't been networked for 5 years and it's still ok. It can't help you though.

My USB bluray player (4years?) has never been updated, no problem.

It could just be failing.

Pillott12 · Mar 28, 2016

It probably must be defective. It happens. I come to that conclusion as there is too much random reactions from it, the computers involved, the unknown quality of the manufacturer. It made it this far for 35$ I will just make a more calculated purchase next time. Thanks for the iput all....

photonboy · Mar 29, 2016

13thmonkey :

Maybe you realize by now, but you initially said the software (Java) could be updated in standalone players, not firmware, thus this was your tentative explanation as to why he had issues.

But then you said your device had not been networked, so I don't see how your explanation would apply.

Anyway, I believe we've established it's likely a defective unit.

Other:
*BTW, a BluRay device has two separate lasers. It has a red diode for DVD backwards compatibility and the blue diode for BluRay.

I suspect that there's something in the BluRay specific component that has failed. This would explain the starting issues and why you can access DVD but not read BluRay discs.

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