Is there something wrong with LG Blu-Ray players?

LG makes good Laundry machines, they are ok as far as TVs go, but that is as far as it goes. I install systems in houses and very rarely do we install LG TVs but none of my clients have an LG Blu Ray player. The best on the market are Sony and Panasonic. Even Samsung, who claim they had helped develop Blu Ray (which is BS) everyone knows its the work of Sony....anyway When a Blu Ray player leaves the manufacture, it has the latest firmware available but if that particular machine was shipped out before the next firmware update was installed then it only has the latest update possible. A machine that has the same model number but was embled later may have the newer update...but from what you described, it sound like a manufacturing defect not a firmware issue. But then again, knowing LG it could have been. The only known title to date that required a firmware update on just about all machines (except some, if not all of Sonys) was Avatar.