| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 168 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thought I mention this in case anyone else gets the same error. It was new to me.
I got this cryptic error message last night when trying to watch the latest BR movie I'd picked up. The player had been working flawlessly since the day I got it prior to this.
The disc refused to play and just sat there with U73 displayed on the panel. Of course the user manual makes no mention of this code.
What it apparently turned out to be was a failure to establish a good HDMI handshake to my monitor. I'm running the HDMI out of the Panny and through an Integra 8.8 reciever and finally to the Samsung TV. Normally, when I start the BR player up, the TV will automatically get "awakened" by the player and will turn itself on and switch itself to the correct input source. If the TV is already on (say, watching broadcast or useing the XBox input, it'll simply switch input sources automatically.
This time the TV was on (broadcast) and the switching happened as usual, but the TV simply keep stating it was getting no input and the player had the U73 error code. The only thing I'd done differently than usual this time was that instead of pressing "Close drawer" on the remote or just turning the player's power on, I'd pressed "Play" - the unit was already on and the disk sitting on the open tray.
The fix in this case was to power everything fully off, then power up in order - the monitor, the Receiver and finally the player.
Guess that was the last time I'd push the play button before closeing the disk tray. Wierd. |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Posts: 57 |
| | Posted: | | | | "Guess that was the last time I'd push the play button before closeing the disk tray. Wierd.
I had a similar situation recently.
There does seem to be some sort of requisite procedural ceremony involved when using any Hi-Def equipment. Failure to abide by the prescribed methodology generally results in the standard fubar scenario.
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Now they build machines that require them to do the machines bidding. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 168 |
| | Posted: | | | | With such a critical start-up ceremony, it sure would have been nice if there'd been something about it in the user manuals - I think that's what pissed me off even more than the finicky behavior. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,667 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good to know. I had so much trouble with my Samsung BP-P1400 that I had it replaced with a Panny BD30. I'd go ballistic if that one started to act up as well, if I didn't know the problem. So thanks!
I've had occasional problems with my regular DVD player, but that only manifested itself in loss of sound or video distortions on startup, and was usually rectified easiest by turning the amp on and off (quicker than turning the player on and off). I never quite figured out what sequence of events that triggered this, but I assumed it had something to do with HDMI handshaking. Never saw it give an error on the player, though. That would have made me a little more nervous. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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