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then be my guest

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on November 10, 2008 at 21:48:41:
A dozen or so? Below is a link to a player list (about 30 players). It only took me a few seconds to count off 7 players (all more than a month old) not on that list. How many more do they have that I didn't count? What happens when there's 50, 70 or 100+ players? Your comment falls flat -- even now.

What I'm sure we can agree on is that the studios/authoring houses/replicators need to work with the player manufactures before mass production of the disc takes place.

I'd go further by suggesting that a sample disc could be sent to each manufacturer to test in their players and the manufacturers could be given a time-frame (1 month maximum, in my opinion) to get their asses in gear and write firmware updates for their players which would need it or figure out if the disc is incompatible for other reasons.

Here's the obviously-not-updated BD player