OK, I think I smell a Rat in Ratatouille.

I finally got my copy of Ratatouille from Amazon today. Eager to see the PQ and SQ, by the way the 24bit 6.9 Mbps LPCM track is amazing, but this is the first Blu ray that took 30 seconds longer than it normally takes to load a blu ray disk. Second, some of the bonus features seem to freeze my PS3. I was shocked, I have never experienced a frozen Blu ray movie on my PS3. Then it dawned on me that I did read here that some people have had problems with this movie. I was going to get Pirates 3 but I remember reading some issues with that as well. I think for now on I'll rent Disney releases before I buy them.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 10, 2008]

Ratatouille, is from all accounts a problem disc. It's one of our demo discs at work and I've yet to find a standalone player they plays it reliably. There's nothing like trying to demonstrate Blu-Ray to people only to have it freeze up on the Dancing Rat Icon. I had heard it was much better on PS3 though.

I have never had a problem playing it and/or the game and features in my PS3, just lucky I guess. Also, never had a problem with the CARS BR disc, and it looks like the same type of format.

Tony, you are correct man, the soundtrack sounds amazing on my ONKYO TX-SR705, and IIRC, you have that same receiver?

Once you get the movie started it plays great, the funny thing is that Disney tries to warn you about load times when you pop in the disk. The rat icon appears when entering a bonus feature and then freezes sometimes and at other times disappears never to be seen again freezing the PS3 until you restart the movie. Oh well I guess I'll have to be happy with just playing the movie.

Blu I have the 705. Tony has the 605. I second that fact. sounds amazing.

Hey Tony. Rat bludisc plays fine on my ps3 special features and everything. i use it as a demo disc... in some parts.

But what i can tell you is this, i dont use my ps3 for anything but bluray, and for a period of a week and a half I did. to try and compare the upscaling and how good it would read burned discs, and also rented some ps3 games during that week just to try. After using my ps3 for different things for about 1.5 to 2 weeks... I loaded the rat flick one weekend again to some it off, and it took longer to read. (thats the fist time i saw the dancing rat) it also did it with another movie, maybe WAR or something else I rented. thats what i've noticed. maybe it was on too long reading things...i stopped usign it for all purposes again, and blue playback load times went back to normal??? weird. just my 2 cents

[Post edited by kucoloco on Mar 10, 2008]

Yeah I should probably add, that our standalone players are constantly running all day. However the problem you mentioned Tony appears to be a common complaint over at AVS in regards to this disc. Maybe there was a bad batch.

I also have Chicken Little from Disney on Blu ray and the bonus features play just fine. Like I said as long as my 7 year old can enjoy flawless playback I'm cool. Blu Bawla I have Cars on SDVD and the upconversion looks great with the PS3 so I don't think I'll be getting this one on Blu ray. Kuco, thanks for the heads up on the playback of other disks after watching Ratatouille. Movielover, you maybe right maybe I did get a bad one from AMAZON, but it plays, just not the bonus material, oh well win some lose some.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 10, 2008]

im not arguing that cars doesent look gof upscalled. i tried it on the ps3 and the tosh player.... but the Bluray LOOKS AMAZING. and im not much into that movie. got it for the wifey.

THE DVD VERSION WORKS WITH NO FLAWS!

The SD DVD plays wonderfully in my Xbox 360 DVD Upscaler drive (That, as an added bonus, plays HD DVD's as well!).

[Post edited by spoonard on Mar 11, 2008]