Interesting. I'm using 5 of the S550s in my new shop with every current model of television. No double presses needed for any action.  

The only thing that I notice is that there is a latency that I have not experienced with Samsungs or Panasonics. I can imagine that eager fingers might press 2-3 times before the initial press has taken effect. 

See if this helps anyone. 

Razlaw, though I didn't experience the double click issue, I would not recommend these to anyone. I'm not sure there's such thing as a "good" player having experienced all the big names either at home or in my shops. I would say a nice simple Samsung is the best bet. BDP-1400 and later seem to be reasonably quick and work well with B&O with a minimum of menu intrusion or complication. Sony & Panasonic seem to be sluggish and like to assert their presence with lots of menus, icons, and other garbage. 

People keep talking about the PS3 as a good player, so maybe I'll relent and allow a video game console near me to test it out! 

frank2u wrote:

Hallo,

I found a solution to control the SONY blu-ray with the PUC. But you have to edit the xml file in the ServiceTool. There is a line with NumSignalReps. You have to update the value to 2.

NumSignalReps=2

Then it will work. But this means that it can not work without that. So I wonder if anybody can control a SONY blu-ray in a way it should work.

Frank 

Isn't changing that value just automating the double click? I guess that would be a work-around however i have trouble with being able to pause/stop. Frank are you able to have full control whilst in the movie (play/pause/stop/fwd/rwd)?

Hallo,

yes and no, as I had im my mind the SONY protocol is only valid after two or more telegrams. So I did some research in that direction. When you set this value it will work. I have full control. Everything is working.

Frank

TripEnglish wrote:

Razlaw, though I didn't experience the double click issue, I would not recommend these to anyone. I'm not sure there's such thing as a "good" player having experienced all the big names either at home or in my shops. I would say a nice simple Samsung is the best bet. BDP-1400 and later seem to be reasonably quick and work well with B&O with a minimum of menu intrusion or complication. Sony & Panasonic seem to be sluggish and like to assert their presence with lots of menus, icons, and other garbage. 

People keep talking about the PS3 as a good player, so maybe I'll relent and allow a video game console near me to test it out! 

I have a samsung bdp-1500 and it's the only one that reads all blu-ray disks so far. I did try a sony (went back to the store next day because of it couldn't read all disks.) and panasonic (just to complicated for me and a pain for integration into a setup)
I did have a chance to check the latest pioneer one (gives good image and terrific sound) but the price difference of 188$ for the samsung and just over 500$ for the pioneer made the choice alot easier .....

Blu-ray is still a works in progress for now so that upgrading the samsung in a couple of years to the latest standard will be easy and not a big waste of money anyways...

Did not try the PS3 as I do not have any interest in gaming .

Anyways..... just my opinion

Kindest regards,

O. 

apearce wrote:

frank2u wrote:

Hallo,

I found a solution to control the SONY blu-ray with the PUC. But you have to edit the xml file in the ServiceTool. There is a line with NumSignalReps. You have to update the value to 2.

NumSignalReps=2

Then it will work. But this means that it can not work without that. So I wonder if anybody can control a SONY blu-ray in a way it should work.

Frank 

 

Isn't changing that value just automating the double click? I guess that would be a work-around however i have trouble with being able to pause/stop. Frank are you able to have full control whilst in the movie (play/pause/stop/fwd/rwd)?

I am using the BDP-S550 with our BV7. All functions work with the Beo 4.

STOP pauses and restarts,  GO and up/down/left/right does fast forward, rewind and chapter skip.

I can not, however, turn the 550 off with the Beo 4.

Had an interesting experience with the BDP-S550 and Beo 4 yesterday and today. I had not experienced the need to press commands twice as mentioned here. One press was working fine for me. Last night I was checking a new functions I had learned ( GO 9   power) and checking other functions in anticipation of getting a Beo 5. At some point the system began requiring the double click for all functions. I could not get it to work as it had. Today we had a power surge and the surge protector shut down the system. Upon turning it on all was back to normal, single clicks worked fine. I then changed a setting for our DVR and suddenly the 550 needed double clicks again. Unplugged entire system and all is well again, single clicks work fine.

All functions seem to be working now, GO 9 works to manually power on and off and the player is now turning on and off automatically at source change or system off.