Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/19/07 20:45

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

>>Believe me, a few months with Blu-Boy, and a PS3 was the LAST thing on
>>this good green earth I was interested in getting as a player... >_<
>>
>>But FWIH, you're not the only one who threw Sony out with the bathwater
>>over the first/second-gen S300 mistake--
>>Me, I was keeping an eye on Samsung, but after their hoped-for third-gen
>>hadn't gotten their Profile yet, I had to face the tech-player advice
>>that the PS3 really *was* the only good current '07 Sony standalone out
>>there for firmware upgrade ability.
>>
> But Sony is damn mum about how far they will go to upgrade the PS3.
> There is no assurance it will happen. FWIW, I think it will be.
>
> So I'll just wait a bit before buying any new BD player.

Not as mum as Sharp is about specs on their mysterious Q4 Aquos player--
Which's why I'm also keeping an eye on the "third player" before
*officially* going PS3...After CES'08 at the earliest.
(To bring us back to topic.)

But the issue on PS3 was over whether the chips COULD upgrade to
firmware updates, which seems to have been the stumbling block so far
with the S300 and other early standalones--
The chips on the home-theater models proved to be so unadaptable to
other uses, they haven't responded well to upgrades as well as the
all-purpose models.

(And y'see, here we're back to that little "It'll still work tomorrow"
thing that frustrates the "Already available" HD fans who can't
understand why Blu fans have patience about "what isn't out yet":
Always have to buy your clothes with growing room.)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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