I need to know how to update the players software as it will not load and play newer BlueRay discs. I tried the download from Philips and that came out as corrupted. Any other suggestions?

SOURCE: philips dvp 3020 dvd player will not play, the "no disc" sighn keeps coming on.

Try this. Wait for the "no disc" sign to appear, and only after that load the dvd. The 3020 I have works alright when I use this method.

SOURCE: blueray player bdp1500--won't play disc it should play??

Hmmm, thats annoying and you say that you have tried this as two differenct discs, you can region free your dvd player here
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks/samsung-bd-p1500/9441

See if that helps, other than that mate I am lost to why it will not play the disc. Does it have any scratches?

SOURCE: Sony BDP-S300 won't play any Blu Ray discs

Sounds like a defective Drive

SOURCE: Philips PET710 DVD player shows 'no disc' when disc inserted

The safest way , this may sound really stupid but has always worked for me is give it a slightly rough slam on its bottom and it will work , dont judge this badly for it actually wotrks

SOURCE: firmware update for Element Blu-ray player

Sorry to bring up an old thread but I couldn't solve the problem with these solutions. I tried a DVD, I tried 3 CD's burned from 2 different computers, I waited for 5 minutes, I waited for 5 hours. Nothing worked. So I used my work computer that is running XP and it worked perfectly. So if you are burning the disk from a vista computer I don't think it will work.