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Blue Ray that Plays rented Movies????

Hi All. I have a Samsung Blue Ray Player, we have had for a year or so. In fact we probably just got done paying it off. lol

Anyway, it plays all our home movies great! Plays both DVD and Blue Ray with very quick processing, which I am happy with. It also streams off NetFlicks great as well.

However if I rent a movie, and it has the slightest imperfection, it sticks, and the screen freezes and you just hear a tick tick tick sound as the disc goes round and round. We can play the same movie in our old DVD player and watch it without a hickup!

Is there another player I might be able to use, that wont be so critical, Were about at the point of hooking up the old DVD player, and just skipping using the Blue Ray with rented movies, as I have not seen one in years, that does not freeze at least once since I have owned this.
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dpe
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Oak244,

Get rid of it!

I have a 2009 Samsung BDP3600 and I have the "exact" same issue. About 1 out of 5 new blu-ray dvds will not play. It drives me crazy. Furthermore the function keys, like skip or menu, have never worked. I have a cheap Sony blu-ray player as well and typically a dvd (either blu-ray or standard) that doesn't play on the Samsung plays just fine on the Sony. I had always thought it was the blu-ray DVDs that were the issue, that's not the case.

If the new Oppo BDP-93 was able to stream Pandora (last I looked this was not possible) the Samsung would be gone. The only reason why this is essential is that my wife is unable to figure out how to listen to Pandora via my Mac connected to the preamp; furthermore she would be equally challenged with a Roku box connected on a secondary HDMI port on the LCD. I know, I know....
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