after doing some reading on avs about all the problems with the bond movies i think blu's got another issue to deal with (hd-dvd would have had the same problem) they need to come up with some method of issuing firmware updates to the mass market i know my parents wouldn't be interested in having to go online and burn a disc or run a eth cable over to there tv so they can update it just so they can watch a movie they just paid $30 for....
Yup, players need to have wireless built in or have SUPER simple firmware updates via USB Flash drives. That will help, but there's nothing like the buzz kill of having your player tell that a firmware update is required before you can play a disc. Worse yet is not being able to play the disc and getting no error message at all.
Nothing quite like combining the perception of buggy players with the lowest consumer confidence ever seen. Sure, some of them will sell, but probably not the way the retailers would like them to.
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after doing some reading on avs about all the problems with the bond movies i think blu's got another issue to deal with (hd-dvd would have had the same problem) they need to come up with some method of issuing firmware updates to the mass market i know my parents wouldn't be interested in having to go online and burn a disc or run a eth cable over to there tv so they can update it just so they can watch a movie they just paid $30 for....
Yup, players need to have wireless built in or have SUPER simple firmware updates via USB Flash drives. That will help, but there's nothing like the buzz kill of having your player tell that a firmware update is required before you can play a disc. Worse yet is not being able to play the disc and getting no error message at all.
Nothing quite like combining the perception of buggy players with the lowest consumer confidence ever seen. Sure, some of them will sell, but probably not the way the retailers would like them to.