Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 01/07/08 20:49

In article <_3wgj.4223$vX6.856@trndny05>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> >
> > Derek, we're not talking about the profile issue here. We are
> > discussing the problems with new blockbuster movies that come out that
> > need a firmware upgrade to allow the movie to play at all, or play
> > reasonably.
> >
> > Think Pirates of the Caribbean. Virtually none of the players that
> > hadn't had firmware upgrades would load it. There are others.
>
> Yeah, I remember those days, too.
>
> Oh, and if you're going to throw that YouTube video in my face, I just
> happened to have rented POTC2 last night--as it just so conveniently
> happens by circumstance--on a freshly 2.10 upgraded PS3:
> Loaded in 10 seconds, played Liar's Dice without a single hitch, won
> three games, and finally figured out the darn scene in the movie...Any
> more strolls down Format-War Memory Lane?
>
> Derek Janssen (but they won't work out of the BOX!--The industry is
> DOOMED!...DOOMED, I tells ya!)
> ejanss1@verizon.net

Oh, please, Derek. You don't think the loading issues are over do you?
The next big Disney flick will probably introduce some new super-duper
menuing crapola that just has to be there, but that nothing but a PS3
will load.

That is the history and the current of BD today. You cannot use the PS3
as the bellweather of BD because it isn't. It is just the best of the
players at the moment.

BEFORE BD makes it out of niche status and into the mass market, 2
things have to happen:

1. At least one sub-$200, Profile 1.1 with advanced codec support for
both True-HD and DTS HDMA (either decoded or bitstreamed) I know, joe6p
doesn't have a HT setup generally, but the audio is the thing that gets
the HT types that aren't early adopters off the dime. And PIP is what
it is. Personally I don't give a damn about it, but I have many friends
that do, most of them are not videophiles either.

2. Stability of machines & software. This constant firmware upgrade
thing has to disappear for the mass market. Joe6p just will not
tolerate nor understand why or how to do this.

Do you see that happening now? I don't, maybe #2 will happen sometime
this year, but I doubt it. And #1 just might happen now that Funai is
in the mix. (announced at CES yesterday along with a whole slew of high
priced models)

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