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Incompitability with (almost) all Universal remotes is a design flaw

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Jack G

In Reply to: RE: the future is not a design flaw posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 18, 2008 at 23:55:36

You can argue all you want, but lacking compatibility is a flaw. If it wasn't, then the Nyko blu-wave wouldn't exist.
Jack

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here are 2 reasons it exists - Joe Murphy Jr 22:40:13 02/19/08 (3)
#1 $14.99 vs $24.99

#2 A Learning/Universal remote can be programmed from it, so money will be made from purchases.

Either one = $ for Nyko. It's not a flaw: it's an opportunity. Are the advanced audio codecs "flaws" because your current receiver can't decode them?
- RE: here are 2 reasons it exists - Jack G 11:30:28 02/20/08 (2)
  > > > Are the advanced audio codecs "flaws" because your current receiver can't decode them? < < <
  If nobody's receiver can decode it, then its a flaw either in the design, or in the designer. :-)
  Jack
  - you really misunderstood that one - Joe Murphy Jr 05:20:53 02/21/08 (1)
    Bluetooth = advanced audio codecs in the analogy. And based on your comments, the advanced audio codecs (Bluetooth) are flawed design because your receiver (IR) can't decode them.
    
    Seems like the future can only be flawed to you: how depressing a mental state. Glad I don't look at things that way.
    - Miscommunication, sorry-let me try again - Jack G 06:28:37 02/21/08 (0)
      I assumed you were referring to DTS-HD MA in the advanced audio analogy, since we discussed it not long ago. If that wasn't your intention, my apologies.
      As for bluetooth, whether or not it really is the future, only time will tell, but to make it incompatible with older technologies is just bad planning. If not a design flaw, a flaw in someone's thinking. Seriously. That's like when Sony's first stand alone player would not play CDs. What were they thinking? Backward compatibility should not be a difficult concept to grasp. The idea of Sony passing the problem on to the consumer is insulting and demeaning to its customers.
      Jack

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