rouged wrote:Paul Penna wrote:Is yours an older player? I had a Panasonic that was several years old and wouldn't play Disney's Alice in Wonderland despite my having its latest firmware upgrade, but after several months and several exchanges of correspondence, they hadn't issued any upgrade by the time I had decided I wanted a new player anyway. If yours is also an older unit, perhaps they're not supporting it any longer.
I think older Blu-ray players (except for Sony's Playstation 3) are not powerful enough to play 3D movies so if your copy of Alice is the 3D version it's understandable why an older player is not able to play it and why there is not an update for it. The same could be valid for the 2 discs rudyfan has mentioned if they are 3D films...
Disney's ALICE IN WONDERLAND (at least the one 99.9% most likely to be discussed in this forum) was made in 1951 before even the first 3-D craze, and I don't think it's been post-converted that I've heard.
No Blu-ray player from any manufacturer or date will play a 3-D Blu-ray disc unless either it is a 3-D Blu-ray player or the disc happens to be a combination 2-D/3-D compatible disc (which is fairly rare), and in the latter case it must be a 3-D Blu-ray player in order to play the disc in 3-D, but a regular Blu-ray player can still play the 2-D version.
I've found that Blu-ray standards have been changing so fast over the past five years that various discs, new and old, will play perfectly on some machines, freeze up, skip, run only in slow-motion, or have out-of-sync audio on others, and not play at all on others, whether or not the machines themselves are five years old, three years old, or one year old, with or without firmware revisions. Many also have problems when players are connected to the internet, even though they like to check automatically for internet content. It's best not to have players connected to the internet for everyday use, unless, perhaps it is one of the very latest models. Most discs do play on most machines, but there have been more exceptions lately that play most reliably on the newest players. When they work right, though, they sure look great with the image projected ten feet wide!