ps3 won't play blu-ray movies, but plays Warhawk, dvds, and ps2 games.

I bought a PS3 in may of last year, and I only played PS2 games and Warhawk until this week. I tried 3 movies and each of them appear to load, then my samsung 1080p tv goes to searching for signal then to no signal. My PS3 is set for 1080p and I can play ps2, wh, and regular dvd movies. I am running the PS3 on HDMI. At the advice of Sony, I performed the long formating of the hdd, but still no issue. Even though I have the Best Buy replacement plan, the sony rep said for the first year Best Buy makes you RMA the ps3, but they replace it after the first year. I do not think my tv is the issue as my halo 360 works ok with hdmi and only BR movies are causing problems with the PS3. I have the 60 gig, and I am not a big fan of the software emulation on the 80, so I thought I would check here before I rmaed. The only thing I can think of is trying the ps3 on my dad's 1080i tv when I go home this weekend.

Any one know of any settings which I might want to adjust befire rmaing or ran into this issue?

Thanks,

Are you sure you don't have an incorrect regioned ps3?

Not all bluray movies are all region, so, if you have a japanese ps3 (ntsc-j) and are trying it in Canada say (ntsc-u/c), and it's a region locked one, it won't work.

I know you play Warhawk so you probably online but have you got the latest system update? I know the PS3 blu-ray player needs updating ever so often to play the up to date blu-ray disks.

I bought it at Best Buy in Tennessee so it should be be in the US/North America region. Of those Blu-ray movies, 1 are bought in the same store as the PS3 and the spiderman movies came from walmart. The movies play in a sony blu-ray player. I doubt it is a region issue because I played some dvds which are US region and they worked. If the PS3 was nonUS, then none of those would play.

I was at firmware 2.2 before I formatted, afterwards I want from base to 2.3 and still have same issue. The hdmi works until I play a Blu-ray movies. There is no issue with Warhawk or anything on the 360, so the HDMI works. I find it wierd that Blu-ray movies do not play, which makes me suspect the ps3.

I had the same prob with my tv, (it is capable of 1080p) so i went into display settings and unchecked 1080p and it worked after that, good luck.gamer_guy_714

yeh same hppens 2 me...some movies dont work on 1080p or even 1080i so try uncheckin the option and then see if the movie works.....i wudn't be suprised if u lowered the display settings 2 1080i and then the blu-ray will work

thanks nelly and gamer_guy!!!

I changed it BD 1080p 24Hz Output (hdmi) to off and it works!