1. Sony Bdp S1200 Firmware Update

Hi all Im sure someone here has come accross this issue already. Sony doenst include MAC OS as one of their operating systems when offering the Firmware upgrades for their blu ray players. Im stuck because I dont have a PC even remotely near me, so I need to find a way to make this work on my macs. I did a web search and a fellow user suggested downloadign the Unarchiver to extract the.Iso file from the.exe file downloaded from Sony's support site, but I get an error message 'thie contents of this file cannot be extracted with this program'. Any other workarounds? I think we all assumed here that you were trying to the firmware on a blu-ray drive in, or attached to your Mac; not a set top box for playback on your TV.

The.exe file they're talking about contains the.iso (disk image) file needed to update your blu-ray player. To avoid having to install Windows to get the self the.iso file out of the self extracting.exe, they're having you use Unarchiver to do it. The disk image for a BDP-S300 player is. I selected Windows XP as the operating system, but I don't think it makes much difference since you're going to extract the.iso image from the download on your Mac. Excerpt from Wikipedia: 'An ISO image includes all the data of files contained on the archived CD/DVD, or any other disc format.'

Full article. The bad news. I tried both the Unarchiver and Stuffit Expander. Since I have the BDP-S350, I downloaded the firmware.exe file for that, along with the one you need. The Unarchiver couldn't open the.exe files at all. Stuffit did pull something out, but it was largely incomplete.

I had to extract the files with the Mac booted into Windows XP. Then put the.iso images on a flash drive to copy them to the Mac desktop. Once you are able to get the.iso disk image out of the.exe file, you need to get that data onto a CD. Double click the.iso image to mount it.

A drive icon will appear on the desktop. Launch Disk Utility, select the mounted disk image and burn the contents of the.iso image to a CD. Once that's done, insert the CD into the blu-ray player to update its firmware. I think we all assumed here that you were trying to the firmware on a blu-ray drive in, or attached to your Mac; not a set top box for playback on your TV.

The.exe file they're talking about contains the.iso (disk image) file needed to update your blu-ray player. To avoid having to install Windows to get the self the.iso file out of the self extracting.exe, they're having you use Unarchiver to do it. The disk image for a BDP-S300 player is.

I selected Windows XP as the operating system, but I don't think it makes much difference since you're going to extract the.iso image from the download on your Mac. Excerpt from Wikipedia: 'An ISO image includes all the data of files contained on the archived CD/DVD, or any other disc format.' Full article.

The bad news. I tried both the Unarchiver and Stuffit Expander. Since I have the BDP-S350, I downloaded the firmware.exe file for that, along with the one you need.

The Unarchiver couldn't open the.exe files at all. Stuffit did pull something out, but it was largely incomplete. I had to extract the files with the Mac booted into Windows XP. Then put the.iso images on a flash drive to copy them to the Mac desktop.

Once you are able to get the.iso disk image out of the.exe file, you need to get that data onto a CD. Double click the.iso image to mount it.

A drive icon will appear on the desktop. Launch Disk Utility, select the mounted disk image and burn the contents of the.iso image to a CD. Once that's done, insert the CD into the blu-ray player to update its firmware. I have now succesfully upgraded the firmware. Excellent, me too! My player was actually quite a ways back on the firmware, so this should make a pretty substantial improvement in load times for blu-ray disks.

Maybe the person that provided the steps never actually tried them? Sure sounds like he did, but since it obviously doesn't work, why would he say it does? I do agree with his griping about Sony's distribution, though. Why put the.iso image into an.exe file in the first place? And why a separate.exe file for every version of Windows when the data in each.exe file is the same!?

Any Windows OS can open any.exe file. There was zero purpose in creating so many. I thought at first they put it into a self expanding archive because it included more than just the.iso file, like installation instructions. But no, it's just the.iso file, so.exe files were pointless. They could have saved themselves a lot of time by just putting the.iso file in one.zip file, or just leaving it as is. Then anyone could download and use it no matter their OS.

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Thailand. Turkey. Ukraine. United Arab Emirates. This utility updates the BDP-S300 firmware to version 5.30 Improvements over firmware version 5.20: Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs.

Additional improvements over original firmware: Compatibility with BD-R/RE discs burned by the Click to Disc™ and Click to Disc™ Editor software included with some VAIO® computers Adds Dolby® TrueHD Audio and Dolby Digital Plus Audio decoding functionality. Compatibility with the newly released BD-R/RE format (BDMV). If this firmware is out of date, please. Improvements of 5.20 over firmware version 4.90.

Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 4.90 over version 4.50. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 4.50.

Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 4.30. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 4.20. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. Adds Dolby® TrueHD Audio decoding functionality.

New for 3.95. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 3.90. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 3.80. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. Compatibility with BD-R/RE discs burned by the Click to Disc™ and Click to Disc™ Editor software included with some VAIO® computers.

New for 3.70. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 3.30. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. New for 3.20.

Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs. Compatibility with the newly released BD-R/RE format (BDMV). New for 2.60. Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs.