Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 01/08/08 00:39

In article <dwzgj.1354$K%6.850@trndny04>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>
> > In article <K_xgj.7238$%A6.3979@trndny08>,
> > Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >>> Speaking of the Mac, do you know how to do a firmware update from Sony?
> >>>It is an EXE file you know? The question always comes up on AVSforums
> >>>from mac users. I know how to do it, but it is apparent that many don't.
> >>
> >>Well, guess that's more PS3 deprival on my part, being spoiled with just
> >>clicking a Settings onscreen-menu listing over the wireless Internet
> >>connection...
> >>But have to admit, that was a new one on me, so do continue to tell us
> >>how things work for the "cheaper" players.
> >
> > For the Mac, you have to do a step or two more.
> > <snip>
> >
> > While none of these are daunting tasks, most won't know about the
> > firmware upgrade unless they search for it or call the mfg. Then most
> > computer users really don't know shit about their computers, so the rest
> > really appears to be hard.
>
> Hate to be the one to say "Let them eat PS3 cake"...
> But reality of business is, when cake starts becoming the top-selling
> item on the menu, the restaurant considers turning into a bakery:
>
> Sony isn't so dim as to fail to notice why the PS3 is more successfully
> selling/functioning as a player with their fans and their standalone
> players aren't, and they can only go so long blaming it on the games--
> The more that studios want to push 2.0 style "movie blogging", and other
> wireless-interactive frills on their disks--under some delusion that
> it's the "future" of disks--the more that Sony and other companies will
> stop forgetting to put Ethernet, wireless and USB input in the next
> generations of their players, just to keep up with their own software
> promotion. (Particularly now that HD-DVD doesn't have their own
> imaginary "monopoly" on their applications for it anymore.)
>
> And it's going to sink in that whatever one-click adaptability their
> "game machine" has that the dedicated boxes don't is going to be a very
> good thing to have in more of their products--Now that at least the
> leading company has a perfectly functional role model under their roof
> to go by, and saving them the trouble of R&D.
> At which stage, a piece down the road, the Early Players now may end up
> looking like, well...early players.
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss1@verizon.net

Kind of like my Sony BDP-S300 that is imitating a doorstop?

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