Are there Blu Rays that Profile 1.0 will not read?

Question

Are there Blu Rays that Profile 1.0 will not read?

I know they won’t handle some special features, but in regards to the movie are there any a Profile 1.0 Blu Ray player will not read?

Maybe a better question is, are there Profile 2.0 disks that will not work with a Profile 1.0 player?

The Blu Ray player I’m looking at is the Samsung BD 1400.

Answer 1

A Blu-ray 2.0 disc should play on nearly all 1.0  or 1.1 players. There will jsut be some special features you will not be able to watch.

In order to get the disc to play you may need to do a firmware update by downloading the update burning it to cd and installing it into the player.

There are some Samsung players that have issues playing some discs and there is currently a lawsuit because of that. I think it is over the BD1200 player the 1400 I think is fine

Answer 2

Profile 1.0 won't read the PiP feature of discs that was added in Profile 2.0.

Answer 3

All Blu-Ray1.0 players will play the featured movie of any blu-ray disc. You lose the special pip features and online content. Most movies are 1.0 profiles. There are a few coming out that uses profile 1.1 (Sunshine - Fox network)

1.1 adds pip for a small video screen while the main movie is playing in the background.

2.0 adds BD-Live online content via an Ethernet port. You can only get these extras from the Internet. great for new games. Not much you can do with movies in my opinion.

3.0 adds BD-Audio only. High definition audio. Not sure how this is a benefit. My guess is 7.1 surround sound music in your living room. That's got to be a lot of music on a 50g disc!

The ps3 is the best Blu-ray player on the market. It's profile 2.0 compliant with future upgrades available.  Other companies are just now releasing there 1.1 players. lol