Comments | detcarguy: sony shit

detcarguy

sony shit

Jan 24, 2009 13:39

BLU-RAY is apparently FAR from ready for the consumer market. Being a Sony standard it is sadly NOT surprising. In the 3 weeks I have had a blu-ray player, it has needed two software updates. BUT the first update rendered ALL regular DVDs UNplayable, the player registered them as NO DISC! The second update rendered DVDs still unplayable and now blu ( Read more... )

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dedos January 25 2009, 06:03:57 UTC

Ugh, what a horror story.
I've heard the upgrading DVD players are pretty good and get the picture quality pretty close to high def. I'd be interested in seeing one of those in person...

detcarguy January 25 2009, 18:54:45 UTC

It played regular DVDs really great (originally) with the full digital signal to the HD1080 TV. But I guess I need to wait a year or two while they decide what the hell they are doing, or abandone blu-ray and go in another consumer friendly direction.

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detcarguy January 29 2009, 04:34:48 UTC

We also bought Samsung, because Sony stuff has all had problems for me in the past. But the blu-ray system is Sony and their updates apparently don't work. So my old Pioneer DVD player is back in place and so is my old VHS player since I have a ton of tapes too.

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detcarguy February 7 2009, 20:40:26 UTC

Thanks, at least Best Buy didn't have any hesitation about taking it back for a full refund. Kevin had bought it online with Best Buy with instore pick up. But we returned it to a different Best Buy store, so I was ready for some funky-ness but they just smiled and gave us our money back. So in a couple years when they have either blu-ray figured out OR a new standard, we'll try again! Meanwhile netflix has it all on DVD too!