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Posted by cdstheo on 07/18/07 20:12
On Jul 16, 10:29 pm, Spurious Response
<SpuriousRespo...@cleansignal.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:32:29 GMT, "Mark Jones" <noem...@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
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> >Mark W wrote:
> >> "Mark Jones" <noem...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> >>news:Z1Bmi.8695$zA4.3608@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >>> Ablang wrote:
> >>>> In these Wild West days of high-def playback, firmware updates seem
> >>>> to be a critical part of the consumer experience.
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> >>> Sounds like another good reason to avoid these for quite awhile.
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> >> ...unless you're the sort of buyer who likes to look at demos a lot,
> >> rather than movies and stuff.
> >> Perhaps the sort of buyer who asks if they can have the in-store HD
> >> demo disc when they buy the player.
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> >I have upwards of 300 DVDs and a 65 inch rear projection
> >HDTV and a 32 in LCD HDTV. When I want to watch a movie,
> >I don't want to have to screw around with a firmware update
> >that may not even be ready at the time the movie hits the
> >store shelves.
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> >What it tells me is that they are not fully implementing the
> >interactive features that each specification calls for because
> >they don't fully understand how to do it.
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> >I have several programming languages on my computer and
> >they are designed to accept the code that I throw at them as
> >long as the programming doesn't contain errors or invalid
> >structure.
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> >I have Sun Microsystems Java loaded on here and it doesn't
> >have problems running properly coded Java, so why can't
> >BD-J handle a valid program without having to be constantly
> >updated. If they are having so much trouble figuring our
> >how to make their implemation of Java work, why didn't they
> >just license Java from Sun?
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> >Most consumers are not going to want to have to deal with
> >frequent firmware updates just so they can watch a movie
> >and enjoy the interactive features.
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> >In case you think that I don't understand how to do firmware
> >updates, guess again. I do this all the time for the equipment
> >that I work on. It would be a pain in the ass to need to do this
> >frequently when what I want to do is just sit down and enjoy
> >a movie.
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> Drama queen.
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> It isn't difficult at all, and it has only needed to be done twice on
> my player, and neither were for playback compatibility reasons. Both were
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How do you install the firmware update on your HD player?
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