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Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/07/08 21:02
Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> In article <_3wgj.4223$vX6.856@trndny05>,
> Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Lloyd Parsons wrote:
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>>>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
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> 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.
Let's see, you're referring to the Profile 2.0 capabilities that Disney
plans to put in on "Finding Nemo", and which Sony has already announced
to upgrade to the PS3 by the end of April at the latest--
> Oh, sure, next month, two months, ANNOUNCED...They'll promise you *anything*
> some time in the future, just so long as they can stringing their customers along!
(There, did I save you the trouble of posting?) ;)
>
> 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.
Um...show me one of these "Great Unwashed J6P Who Doesn't Know How To
Tie His Shoes, and Drools On His Peanut Butter Sandwiches" (y'know, the
one who was going to save HD because, like, the players were so cheap at
Wal-Mart?)--
Because the more of them you're starting to make up to dream up some
world in which "our side" still wins, the more snotty and condescending
it's starting to get...Yeah, don't expect to come over and babysit *my*
kids anytime soon.
Me, out of three possible reasons, I bought the PS3 over all the players
BECAUSE none of the other standalones, even Sony's own, responded to
firmware updates quite as chameleonically--
I'm the guy who has Software Update auto-running every week on his Mac,
because he's too darn stingy to buy a new computer until the old one
falls apart, and I'm sure Imaginary Joe Shortbus Who Forgets To Breathe
shares some form of the same sentiment:
It's the "You can make it anything!" factor that MAKES the PS3 better
than the SDP300 boxes, and someone at Sony should take notes.
Derek Janssen (Stinginess is good...It's related to Greed.)
ejanss1@verizon.net
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