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Posted by Spurious Response on 07/18/07 23:14
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:12:16 -0000, cdstheo@gmail.com wrote:
>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
>> for player control function improvement.- Hide quoted text -
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>How do you install the firmware update on your HD player?
It has network connectivity built in. An alternate method would be via
burned ROM disc.
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