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Samsung Sued Over "Defective" Blu-ray Player

Posted by kdawson on from the rush-to-market dept.

Anneka notes that, although both Netflix and Best Buy threw logs on HD DVD's funeral pyre today, things are not all going Blu-ray's way. A Connecticut man is suing Samsung, the maker that brought the first Blu-ray players to market, over its "defective" BD-P1200 player. The lawsuit seeks class-action status. The problem is that the Samsung BD-P1200 is a "Profile 1.0" player that can't play some Blu-ray discs and Samsung has no intention (or ability) to upgrade these players via firmware. Quoting Ars: "The meager requirements of the 1.0 profile mean that Blu-ray players which fail to implement the optional features won't be able to take advantage of picture-in-picture, which requires secondary decoders. 1.0 players are also unable to store local content, lacking the 256MB of storage mandated by the 1.1 profile. Profile 1.1 discs should still play on 1.0 players, however, but the extra features will not work."

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  1. ALL Blu-ray players are defective by Wiseman1024 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not only this one, but all Blu-ray and HD-DVD players are defective. They are Defective By Design. If you buy products spiked with digital AIDS such as Blu-ray players, you're asking for getting screwed. Why would they compensate the guy for this, if they aren't compensating anyone for robbing them of their legal, constitutional, human and moral rights, screw them with forced advertisements and similar "features", price-discriminate against them with the nazi regional system, and often allow the mafia corporations to watch them (and not just in Soviet Russia)?

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    I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
  2. Because Windows has drivers for HW I happen to own by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    I also found out that every program that I use is Open Source except OS. And your hardware drivers, I take it.

    Then it was quite natural to start using Linux instead of Windows. How often do you reboot back to your Windows partition to use, say, a flatbed scanner that SANE still doesn't support and whose manufacturer hasn't replied to e-mails?
  3. Re:There's a reason... by phorm · · Score: 0, Troll

    which of Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and SLASH can be called "bleeding edge

    Um, any or all of them could be, depending on the version being used. All regularly have updates with new features for enhanced (if not always liked) features and performance. Yes, they're definitely mature in that they've been around and are for the most part "tried, tested, and true", but that doesn't mean that development has ceased not that improvements aren't being regularly made.