Week In Review

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 21, 2014
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What Happened This Week?

It’s been a crazy week with so much going on. It’s been a challenge to try and keep up with it all.

Toy Fair

First, earlier in the week Toy Fair 2014 kicked off in New York. I covered a lot of NECA’s toy line ups for the year. I’ve completed my coverage of Toy Fair today. I’ve covered a large majority of NECA’s toy releases for this year. I also covered Hasbro’s Star Wars 6″ Black Series line, as well as Mezco Toyz’ Breaking Bad licensed merchandise. I added a Game of Thrones section because I saw some very cool stuff that’s coming to the market soon. Most of it is for the high-end collectors.

Titanfall Beta

There was a lot going on with Titanfall this week as well. I got into the beta last Friday, continued to play through Wednesday night, and captured a lot of in-game footage. We learned that Titanfall will have monsters and they can be a threat. I posted my first impressions of the beta and working on a final impressions with suggestions on how to improve the game.

Game of Thrones Blu-Ray Problem

On Tuesday this week, HBO’s original series Game of Thrones season 3 released on Blu-Ray and DVD. I posted an unboxing video of the Amazon collector’s set. I also found out that the Xbox One could not play the Game of Thrones Blu-Ray discs. I did some research and apparently these Blu-Ray discs have some DRM on them and may have affected more Blu-Ray players than just the Xbox One. Microsoft quickly corrected the problem and now Game of Thrones season 3 Blu-Ray discs work on your Xbox One machine.

Xbox One Dashboard Beta

This week Microsoft also began to send out invitations to random Xbox Live members to participate in the Xbox One Dashboard Preview Program. The next major Xbox One update will arrive March 4th. It will address the party and notification systems as well as a few other improvements to the system.

How Was Your Week?

What did you do? Put your week in review, and have a great weekend.

Microsoft Inviting Users to Xbox One Update Beta

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 20, 2014
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The Xbox One’s second major update is scheduled to release on March 4th, a week before the release of Titanfall. This update will improve many features with the systems party chat and invitation features. Microsoft is sending invitations to select Xbox Live members and they will be receiving their dashboard beta tokens via the Xbox Live message system.
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Titanfall Beta is Over

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 20, 2014
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Standby For Titanfall . . .

Late last night around midnight on the East Coast, Respawn began to kill the servers, and one by one each server was brought down. You could hear the Internet cry out in sorrow as we now have to wait three weeks to play the full retail version of Titanfall. I was fortunate enough to continue playing until 2 AM, almost two hours after Respawn Entertainment killed the servers. So me and a few friends kept playing with whoever could still find our lobby. Search times were increased to nearly 10-15 minutes. I eventually became too tired to continue and so I signed off and said goodbye to the Titanfall Beta.

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Be Advised: Xbox One Blu-Ray Can’t Play Game of Thrones

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 19, 2014
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Xbox Blu-Ray Player is Buggy

[Update #3] I have figured it out. The Xbox One Blu-Ray player is clearly having issues for perhaps a multitude of reasons. This issue is no longer isolated to just Game of Thrones season 3. I’ve now tested more Blu-Ray movies and Step Brothers came up as one that wasn’t recognized by the system.

First, disable BD Live in your Settings if you have it enabled.

If for whatever reason this happens and your Xbox One can not recognize a Blu-Ray movie don’t worry because there is an easy solution.

  • Load up the Blu-Ray player app on your Xbox One with no disc in the slot.
  • You’ll be prompted that there is no disc in the drive.
  • Insert your Blu-Ray movie
  • Boom.

Also, for now if you’re having issues with audio sync, it’s because you have 24 Hz enabled. Disable that and you won’t have any audio issues. I think there is an issue with the user interface being 60 Hz and it confuses the television, or something to that effect.

There you have it. After trial and error I have solved this mystery. This could be a bug brought on by the February system update.

Has anyone experienced these issues before the February update?

Xbox One Still Can’t Play Game of Thrones

[Update #2:] Just as I was about to sit down and enjoy my weekend it turns out that Microsoft has not in-fact fixed the Game of Thrones Blu-Ray situation. The other day Microsoft released an update for the Blu-Ray player that was supposed to fix this issue. It did, temporarily, but the issue has come back, and there’s no solution on the horizon. Except of course for the work around that I’ve provided below.

The Work Around!

  • Load up the Blu-Ray player app on your Xbox One with no disc in the slot.
  • You’ll be prompted that there is no disc in the drive.
  • Insert Game of Thrones season 3 disc (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.)
  • Boom.

Blu-Ray Player Updated

[Update:] Microsoft has issued an update that fixes a bug that was causing the Season 3 Game of Thrones Blu-Ray discs to not play on the Xbox One. Insert a season 3 Game of Thrones disc and the Blu-Ray player app will load up and prompt you to download an update.


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Titanfall Will Have Monsters

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 19, 2014
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Yes, the Monsters are Real

Yesterday, IGN posted early images of the Titanfall art book, and in this art book there were allegedly monsters. IGN reported that these monsters would walk or fly around the maps. Some may only engage you once you’ve fired upon them, and others will attack for purely looking at them.

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Titanfall Beta Ends Tonight

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 19, 2014
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Be Advised . . .

As as a friendly reminder the Titanfall beta will come to an end tonight at 6 PM PST. That’s 9 PM Eastern.

However, new details have emerged about the beta. Jon Shiring tweeted that a test for server patches will go out tonight at 6 PM PST. He says that if the patch is a success he will keep the servers online for a few more hours to allow us to test out the servers with the new patch.

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Game of Thrones Season 3 Has Arrived

Posted by David Doc. Rogers on February 19, 2014
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The Dragon Has Landed

February 18, season 3 of HBO’s original series Game of Thrones released on DVD and Blu-Ray. I ordered the collector’s set from Amazon, because I thought it looked cool. I was worried that it was going to be an inferior product. Watch this video and find out what I thought about the collector’s set.