Quote:
Originally Posted by ken0042
You or I may have no issues with doing a firmware update on a DVD player. But to the average person it might be more than they would want to/ be able to do.
I can just imagine trying to talk my mom through doing an update like this over the phone.  |
If the firmware is even available:
Quote:
|
Unfortunately for the owners of the player in question, the second-generation Samsung BD-P1200, there is no new firmware to download for the player. Visiting the URL listed above—which after a maze of redirects and confusing menus finally does get you to Samsung's BD-P1200 firmware page—will give you no satisfaction. The latest firmware listed there is the same 1.0 version that shipped with the player. The same fate is in store for owners of LG's first-generation dual-format BH100 player.
|
People complained about not knowing how to set the time on VCRs. There have been surveys that show that a large percentage of people don't have their HD TVs hooked up to receive HD signals.
Requiring a firmware upgrade is just crazy. And theoretically this can happen every time they update the DRM keys to try and combat hackers. They are going to combat their own customers.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
|