Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/23/06 14:16

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:57:44 +0000 (UTC), retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.)
wrote:

>>I was looking at a few standalone DVD players to buy and some of the
>>reviewers mentioned that there was a new firmware update for one of the
>>players. How in the heck does that work? I've never heard of that for a
>>standalone player and can't figure out how you would go about updating
>>it. Could someone please explain this? Trying to stay up-to-date with
>>all this new technology is a real pain in the rear.

>Usually this is accomplished by downloading a file from the manufacturer's
>web site, which contains data that must be burned to a recordable CD. You
>place this CD in the player and it reads the data file and updates the
>firmware from it.

I suspect we will be seeing less of that as the manufacturers settle
in on stable designs. The Polaroid DRM-2001G (WalMart $220) and the
Insignia NS-DVDR1 (Best Buy Online $115) do not have upgrade
capability. But then they do not need it except for some minor
glitches that are not worth fooling with.

I also suspect that if a customer pesters the tech support people
enough they will get him an upgrade on the side. But I doubt it will
be made public. Too many idiots screwed up their units with public
upgrades.


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