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Yamaha BluRay players locking up on Netflix
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Post 16 made on Friday May 23, 2014 at 22:10
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This is exactly why I don't use a blu- Ray player for anything other than blu-Ray, tv for anything other than a tv. Let a real streaming player handle streaming.
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Post 17 made on Saturday May 24, 2014 at 21:31
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The Yamaha units are HORRIBLE. Literally every unit that we sold locked up when you try to use Netflix and/or needed to be power-cycled constantly. Their receivers are great...we won't touch their Blu-Ray players.

We talked to their tech support about a month and a half ago about this and they still reported it to be a non-issue. We have 5 units that say otherwise.
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OP | Post 18 made on Saturday May 24, 2014 at 22:42
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On May 24, 2014 at 21:31, punter16 said...
The Yamaha units are HORRIBLE. Literally every unit that we sold locked up when you try to use Netflix and/or needed to be power-cycled constantly. Their receivers are great...we won't touch their Blu-Ray players.

We talked to their tech support about a month and a half ago about this and they still reported it to be a non-issue. We have 5 units that say otherwise.

Aside from this latest issue with Netflix (which I always encourage a Roku3 anyways), we haven't really had any issues. We did have a lot of lock ups at first, but with the latest firmware it hasn't been an issue up to now.
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Post 19 made on Sunday May 25, 2014 at 08:10
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Yamaha optical players have always been junk. Always!

From their 1st DVD players 15+? years ago, till the bluray players of now. They have always been a POS. Everything else Yamaha makes has been OK to great... but they just never seemed to care to build a good optical player.

Every few years however, the factory will spin the marketing BS with a new generation of players: These are huge improvement. These are built by us. These are top-of-line.
And yet again we find they are not an improvement. Find that they really are not built by them. And certainly not top-of-line.

Do yourself and your customers a favor. Do not sell Yamaha optical players. They are the most over priced POS on the market. At least the Denon's have great performance before they break.
Sell Oppo for true top-line product! Although you are not going to make any money on them.
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Post 20 made on Monday May 26, 2014 at 01:28
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On May 23, 2014 at 03:03, Ernie Gilman said...
We raised the download rate on the customer's DSL a few months ago when NetFlix was not always working. It then worked GREAT, then a month ago started messing up again, up to the point where nothing played.

The downres was done by the Netflix lady, rather than her telling us how to do it, probably because we had been on the phone with her for at least a half hour, going over everything we could do to reset, restart, reboot, and curse. See, you can sign into your account online and change the resolution setting yourself.

RTI Installer, Never Ignore The Obvious: log on and lower the download resolution and see if all that equipment then works. Maybe the problem is download speed!

And, by the way, I think NetFlix increased the required download speed over the last few months, though the lady denied it. However, system behavior fully agrees with constant download speed but raising required speed.

Thanks for the tip Ernie I will give it a try
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Post 21 made on Monday May 26, 2014 at 01:32
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Netflix Playback settings --> Data Usage per Screen
  • Auto (default)
  • Low (basic video quality, up to 0.3 GB per hour)
  • Medium (standard video quality, up to 0.7 GB per hour)
  • High (best video quality, up to 3 GB per hour for HD, 7 GB per hour for Ultra HD)
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Post 22 made on Monday May 26, 2014 at 01:53
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OK I see whats going on now. After forcing the Netflix settings to a single bandwidth choice things seem to be much more stable. the problem is not so much that the res is to high or too low, it is that it is set by default to "auto".

My sony media player likes to give you all kinds of bandwidth stats when it is connecting to net flix. When I leave netflix set to auto  the bandwidth numbers jump all over the place, Hi, low and everything in between, and the media player will lock up playback over and over. When I set netflix to a static bandwidth setting, the media player locks right on to what it wants and loads much quicker, and so far has not locked up at all.

So the solution apears to be changing the Netflix bandwidth settings to anything other than auto.
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