"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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: "Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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: "Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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: "Ruud Broens" wrote in message
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: "Kalman Rubinson" wrote in message
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: On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:06:36 +0100, "C a r b u r o"
: wrote:
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: it isn't and Graham is wrong - many dvd players, for
: instance, can be software upgraded (just start it up
: with new software on a cd that's inserted)
: and frankly, it is the only sensible way to go - the
: obsolence card has been
: played
: too many times by the industry - consumers don't buy
: it anymore ;-)
:
: Very interesting...
: Can u suggest some players with this feature?
:
: I have upgraded two Denon players this way. Downloaded
: files from the website, burned CDRs and stuck them in.
:
: Kal
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: Most of the Philips players can do likewise.
:
: Which begs the question why this would have any purpose
: other than: "Ooops, we goofed!"
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: In the digital world, it seems "to err" is too human.
:
: You would rather they save face and never fix an error,
:
: Never had a CD player that had an error that a firmware change could fix.
:
: I guess that comes from not buying high end products, eh?
:
maybe some high end glasses would help ? it did say *dvd* players ;-)
an example is the Philips DVP 5900 multiformat player, about Euro 110,
recently released, now an update is available for divX 6 supporting
socalled media format extentions - that format wasn't around when the
player was developed, so what's this "fix an error" got to do with it ??

R.