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Now you're implying that technology remains static

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Jazz Inmate

In Reply to: RE: Nonsense the same applies to software issues.(nt) posted by Jack G on April 11, 2008 at 16:06:39

Software and firmware updates allow hardware to stay current, even when more innovative hardware is introduced. There is an entire industry that proves it: computers. Maybe you've heard of them. TiVos and PS3s are nothing but specialized computers. The notion that you can make them futurproof, shipping on the release date with all necessary code to handle any formats or other technologies and bugs that will be thrown at them is silly and actually is part of the thinking that leads to poor product support.
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Call it, friendo.

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Bad analogy - Jack G 06:15:17 04/12/08 (1)
You keep using the computer analogy, but it just doesn't work.
The BDA knew about video profile 2.0 when they launched the Piss3, they just couldn't figure out how to do it. The same,more or less, applies to TIVO 9they should have known too).
Updates to fix the unexpected or the unknown is one thing, updates because you couldn't figure out how to do features promised earlier, or do them correctly, is incompetence.
Why you insist on defending that is beyond me.
Jack

Edits: 04/12/08
- No, it's a good analogy because the hardware is not the problem - Jazz Inmate 21:48:55 04/12/08 (0)
  So companies like Tivo and Sony are incompetent? Why don't you start your own company and bless us all with competent engineering so that we can enjoy technology again.
  
  The computer analogy is perfect because computers rely on software. Software bugs are ubiquitous and proper updates and software support are essential in optimizing hardware performance and offering the right features.
  
  The PS3 has among the lowest failure rates of any hardware ever released. It needed to compete with XBox360, which was issued so prematurely that it had sky high failure rates and could not play either HD format. When it finally offered a $100
  
  No one really cares about BD 2.0, but the PS3 supports that now, too, of course. In fact, there is no BD requirement or spec the PS3 does not support. So the only reason you're still biased against it is because you've been brainwashed over at AVS. Do all the haters there call it the Piss3?
  
  TiVo is a different issue. There is clearly a bug in the code of their current software release that leads to the problems I and others have observed with HD broadcasts. The bug doesn't bother me nearly as much as Tivo's inability to quickly and honestly address the issue and deal with it. TiVo has instead been blaming it on its cable partners and basically pointing fingers everywhere but its own codewriters. Sony's updates for the PS3, on the other hand, have been very impressive.
  
  Never had a problem with any update on the PS3.
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  Call it, friendo.

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