I rented Crank 2 today and had problems, the disc loads for 2-3 minutes then a loading screen pops up, after about another minute the progress bar stops. It played the studio music, but pic was still frozen on the loading screen, and then the film menu (or rather a piece of it) came up in a box about 4″ square over the frozen loading screen.
First thing i did was update the firmware to the latest version, which is currently v1.6, but it still does not work.
Lionsgate are confirming that the BD Live title will only play back correctly on Profile 2 Blu-ray players with internal memory (or connected external USB). If you try and spin the disc on a Profile 2 player without sufficient memory available, the film itself will be visible only in a small, distorted onscreen window, exactly as I was seeing!
Anyway the solution is quite simple if you own a Panasonic DMP-BD35, I simply ejected the disc, stuck in a 2Gb SD card that I had laying around and bingo, the movie played without issue. I guess that 2Gb SD card will be a permanent resident in my Blu-ray player now!