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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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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.