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Iron Man DVD problems?
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Hello

I was wondering if anyone else out there is having issues with the Iron Man DVD? When trying to play it on my Pioneer 550-H player, the dvd freezes at several points, sometimes the player will just stop all together. I did a firmware update which stopped some but not all of the freezing.

Someone on another forum mentioned that they had issues with it on a sony player, and I heard that there was a bad batch of Blu-Ray discs.

I was wondering if this is an isolated thing, or if all the Iron Man DVD's are messed up. Anyone have any further information?
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as been reported all week....  this site and others ..
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ok thanks. I did do a search on here, but it didn't come up with anything. Weird. I'll redo the search and look around further. Sorry to do a repost.

Thanks for the heads up.

I took a look at the link... That is refering to the blu-ray disc recall. what I'm talking about is the regular DVD release having problems aswell...
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I took a look at the link... That is refering to the blu-ray disc recall. what I'm talking about is the regular DVD release having problems aswell...

I didn't know that regular DVD players required firmware ?? 
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Try disabling your network connection if you have one and then see if it plays.  It's a temporary condition caused by too many people trying to watch Iron Man at the same time and overloading the web servers.
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I didn't know that regular DVD players required firmware ?? 

Generally speaking or specifically in this case?

Generally speaking, yes they require and use a firmware and that firmware can even be updated. That was the way to disable region locking and user operation prohibition in the early days of the DVD players. Nowadays region locking can be disabled in a hidden menu on most players in Germany.
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Try disabling your network connection if you have one and then see if it plays.  It's a temporary condition caused by too many people trying to watch Iron Man at the same time and overloading the web servers.


what the heck are you talking about
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I took a look at the link... That is refering to the blu-ray disc recall. what I'm talking about is the regular DVD release having problems aswell...

I didn't know that regular DVD players required firmware ?? 



Well it's a DVR, and yea, it has a firmware update, downloaded it off of Pioneer, burned it on a CD, and then popped it into the drive, 5-10 min later, it was all updated.
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Try disabling your network connection if you have one and then see if it plays.  It's a temporary condition caused by too many people trying to watch Iron Man at the same time and overloading the web servers.

what the heck are you talking about


The Blu-Ray disc has features that use an online connection from a networked Blu-Ray player so for the Blu-Ray disc some people have found disconnecting from the network has helped, AIUI.
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Try disabling your network connection if you have one and then see if it plays.  It's a temporary condition caused by too many people trying to watch Iron Man at the same time and overloading the web servers.


you are referring to the blu ray problems..

This is the DVD version. And as far as I know that version doesn't try to use any network connection
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Hello

I was wondering if anyone else out there is having issues with the Iron Man DVD? When trying to play it on my Pioneer 550-H player, the dvd freezes at several points, sometimes the player will just stop all together. I did a firmware update which stopped some but not all of the freezing.

Someone on another forum mentioned that they had issues with it on a sony player, and I heard that there was a bad batch of Blu-Ray discs.

I was wondering if this is an isolated thing, or if all the Iron Man DVD's are messed up. Anyone have any further information?


I haven't heard of any problems with the DVD version. Check that the disk isn't dirty.

I'll have a look around.
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Hello

I was wondering if anyone else out there is having issues with the Iron Man DVD? When trying to play it on my Pioneer 550-H player, the dvd freezes at several points, sometimes the player will just stop all together. I did a firmware update which stopped some but not all of the freezing.

Someone on another forum mentioned that they had issues with it on a sony player, and I heard that there was a bad batch of Blu-Ray discs.

I was wondering if this is an isolated thing, or if all the Iron Man DVD's are messed up. Anyone have any further information?


I haven't heard of any problems with the DVD version. Check that the disk isn't dirty.

I'll have a look around.



Thanks, that would be wonderful. The disc looks fine, i've never had an issue with this dvd player before, and someone else on another forum mentioned that their Sony player had problems playing the disc aswell. So I don't think it's just me.

I've done multiple searches online, and keep coming up empty. So thats why I decided to post here.
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So this ;problem is only for the Blu-Ray Version?
If so could the OP edit the thread title to indicate this concerns the Blu-Ray version.

I have a regular version I just got and haven't tried watching it yet, now I supposed I should at least see if the dang thing works.
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So this ;problem is only for the Blu-Ray Version?
If so could the OP edit the thread title to indicate this concerns the Blu-Ray version.

I have a regular version I just got and haven't tried watching it yet, now I supposed I should at least see if the dang thing works.


no - it's the opposite. This problem is for the non blu ray version.

The issues are already known for the blu ray version.
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Hello

I was wondering if anyone else out there is having issues with the Iron Man DVD? When trying to play it on my Pioneer 550-H player, the dvd freezes at several points, sometimes the player will just stop all together. I did a firmware update which stopped some but not all of the freezing.

Someone on another forum mentioned that they had issues with it on a sony player, and I heard that there was a bad batch of Blu-Ray discs.

I was wondering if this is an isolated thing, or if all the Iron Man DVD's are messed up. Anyone have any further information?


I haven't heard of any problems with the DVD version. Check that the disk isn't dirty.

I'll have a look around.



Thanks, that would be wonderful. The disc looks fine, i've never had an issue with this dvd player before, and someone else on another forum mentioned that their Sony player had problems playing the disc aswell. So I don't think it's just me.

I've done multiple searches online, and keep coming up empty. So thats why I decided to post here.


I haven't found anything online. Can you try in a friends player? Or a PC?

It looks like you may have to return it and get a new copy sent.
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I have another player, which I tested the problem areas, and they seemed ok. It is a panasonic-DVD-827 model. I haven't had the opportunity to watch the entire movie through though. I think this is more a combatibility problem with the DVD and the DVR player. I am hoping that either A)Pioneer will get back to my email (their site claims that they get back within a reasonable amount of time) or B) someone else on the internet has the same DVR player as me and can say yes or no that they've experienced the same problems.

I watch 95% of my movies on the DVR, so it's preferable to have that one work. I do have a much older DVD player that is not hooked up, I may hook that up tonight or tomorrow to the same TV as my DVR, seems silly to hook up one DVD player just to play one movie. Alas, that may be my only solution.

Thanks so much for all your help pauls42, it's greatly appreciated.
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