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We are early in BD rollout

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In Reply to: RE: It should be-its thier movies posted by Jack G on October 05, 2007 at 06:42:56

There are several issues going on here, including regional, firmware, and we are not much more than a year into BD rollout. Early adoption in the digital age is always problematic. This is hardly unique to blu-ray. The glitches you're talking about are fairly minor and analogous to similar problems in the rollout of other digital products, from Windows operating systems to cell phones to SACD. Those of us who adopted flagship SACD products were cut out of multichannel. There's nothing mysterious, sinister or even wrong with any of this.
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Irrelevant - Jack G 12:03:56 10/05/07 (4)
You know, if it was a defective disc due to a problem pressing them, I could see it, but that's not the case. This is strictly a software issue. You don't put out software that won't work on machines known to already be out in the field.
Is the BDA so disorganized, that as a group they are functionally retarded?
I am so tired of Blu-fan boys defending this incompetence.
This is clearly a case where the discs were rushed to market before they were ready. It wouldn't have been hard to do some QC on the movies with so few players out there. There is no excuse.
Jack
- your assessment - Joe Murphy Jr 12:14:47 10/05/07 (3)
  It's more likely the fault of the players not being enabled to properly play/process what's on the disc (which implement known Blu-ray format features, security, capabilities, etc) because the hardware manufacturers didn't "turn on" these capabilities early enough. If they weren't known Blu-ray format features, security, capabilities, etc, then neither LG nor Samsung would be providing updates for something that the format isn't supposed to support.
  - So it couldn't have been checked before release?(nt) - Jack G 14:57:53 10/05/07 (2)
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    - it could have - Joe Murphy Jr 15:21:38 10/05/07 (1)
      But is it the job of FOX to play nursemaid to Samsung and LG? The fact that LG said they'd have a firmware udate in a few days should tell you something (ie, all manufacturers need to get off of their collective asses and keep their players up-to-date).
      
      FOX has been more willing to give its customers advanced features and use the latest technology than other studios. They're ahead of the curve and because of that some hardware manufacturers are going to have problems.
      - THAT is my gripe (nt) - Jack G 15:32:35 10/05/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: it could have posted by Joe Murphy Jr on October 05, 2007 at 15:21:38
        
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