I found this forum after trying to watch Date Night on my BD390 and getting pretty frustrated.
After reading about the issues with BD-Live I concluded that this is some kind of problem with how the Date Night disk handles network issues. Via BD-Live, the disk is trying to contact Fox 's server (or whatever service) using the BD390's internet connection. I figured that they must have programmed it to ignore BD-Live and play the movie if a player doesn't have an internet connection. However, it looks like they assumed that if there's a connection then everything will always work splendidly. They didn't "tell" the disk what to do if there is an internet connection but there is a problem connecting to their server. In fact, it seems that they didn't plan for this last situation at all, which results in the problems we're experiencing.
By default the BD390's BD-Live setting is partially permitted. With that setting it seems the Date Night disk can't connect the way it's programmed to connect. Instead of timing out after 10 seconds or so and going on to the menu it waits for the connection forever. I'd say this is a disk programming problem on Fox's part--a variable somebody left out of the code on the disk.
Anyway, here's how I got it to work on my BD390 after experiencing all of the aggravation I've seen earlier in the thread:
From the Home screen go to Settings on the BD390. Go to the Network page. Select BD-Live Connection. Notice that it's set to Partially Permitted by default. Change it to Prohibited.
Code:
Settings-->Network-->BD-Live Connection-->Permitted
-->Partially Permitted (default)
-->Prohibited (I suggest changing the setting to this)
For good measure I also cleared the memory:
Settings-->Others-->BD Storage Clear
[del]I don't think that clearing the memory would make a difference so for testing purposes try only disabling BD-Live then post a reply, if you don't mind. I cleared the memory on mine because I read on this thread about being able to play the disk the first time but not the second, which means the disk must store some info on the player (like a web browser cookie). I thought if I cleared the memory I'd at least get to play it as if it were the first time. This is probably correct, but I think the real problem is the BD-Live setting so memory shouldn't matter.[/del]
After completing these steps, when put the disk in I got the text telling me about how I might need to update the firmware (it's up to date, BTW). Then I got a warning I haven't seen before telling me that BD-Live was disabled and that I should set it to permitted. I clicked okay to ignore the message.
After that I was able to click to the disk menu and start the show with virtually none of the waiting I had experienced before.
Tomorrow I'll spend some time looking into BD-Live. My guess is the disk would work if I set BD-Live Connection to Permitted. However, I don't think I want my movies calling home and maybe locking up every time I want to watch something from Netflix. For now I'll just leave it disabled.
I hope this helps someone else. Even if you don't have an LG BD390 you should check your BD-Live settings if you're having a similar problem. Logically, that almost has to be the problem everywhere. I'm not shilling for LG or anybody else, but again this seems more like a case of poor programming on Fox's part than anybody else's hardware flaw. The fact that Fox say it's a hardware flaw suggests that they don't understand the problem which unfortunately means they won't be able to fix it. Let's hope they figure it out.
Something else that should work if you have an ethernet cable plugged into your player: unplug the ethernet cable. That will, in effect, disable BD-Live because there's no network. Then the disk should load. You could also disable your wireless connection, but at least on the BD390 that's kind of a pain to set up again.
Good luck and please post back if this does or doesn't work for you.
Problems With "Date Night" Blu-ray's BD-Live function on multiple players
Originally Posted by Blu-ray Boy
