This is a blessing for many owners who bought the player because of its DVI output and upconversion properties, only to find out outside the 30 day return policy, short 3 month on-market time, or 1 year warranty period that the player is terrible. Start up is ridiculously slow, the transport mechanism frequently freezes, 4:3 content is never shown correctly, menus are very slow, very poor IR reception and a very bright annoying blue light. The chance at replacing a product that should never have been released due to quality control issues is a very welcome offer.
Regarding the Region Free 'hack' - I have never needed it, but it is enabled and I believe you should be able to view your content as you see fit.
I for one welcome our new recalled DVD players. Mine is just sitting in the rack, waiting to be replaced, or eBay'd.
Because the Kaleidescape Server stores the movies on fast disk drive technology, it virtually eliminates all of the overhead and waiting that is commonplace when playing a standard DVD: no loading of physical media, no waiting for the DVD menu to appear, and no confusing options to select; the movie just starts.
Been drooling over one of these since they were announced... pity that our liticious society no is treading on fair use AFTER issuing a license to do exactly what they're suing over.
While Sveasoft hasd shut down their forums for the support of the publicly released version and is providing support for subscribers (as has been done all along) - http://www.linksysinfo.org/ has taken up the cause for providing a support forum for these users.
This is a widely used and very popular firmware (especially now). So if you are having issues with the public/stable/free (call it what you will) Satori4.0 release, head on over to the forums http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Forums.
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This is a blessing for many owners who bought the player because of its DVI output and upconversion properties, only to find out outside the 30 day return policy, short 3 month on-market time, or 1 year warranty period that the player is terrible. Start up is ridiculously slow, the transport mechanism frequently freezes, 4:3 content is never shown correctly, menus are very slow, very poor IR reception and a very bright annoying blue light. The chance at replacing a product that should never have been released due to quality control issues is a very welcome offer.
Regarding the Region Free 'hack' - I have never needed it, but it is enabled and I believe you should be able to view your content as you see fit.
I for one welcome our new recalled DVD players. Mine is just sitting in the rack, waiting to be replaced, or eBay'd.
Kaliededscape Server
Been drooling over one of these since they were announced... pity that our liticious society no is treading on fair use AFTER issuing a license to do exactly what they're suing over.
jdepew
While Sveasoft hasd shut down their forums for the support of the publicly released version and is providing support for subscribers (as has been done all along) - http://www.linksysinfo.org/ has taken up the cause for providing a support forum for these users.
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This is a widely used and very popular firmware (especially now). So if you are having issues with the public/stable/free (call it what you will) Satori4.0 release, head on over to the forums http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Forum
Yeah, I realized that after the post - unfortunately no editing ability here on comments.
That's what 5 years of Latin 6 years ago gets you!
I believe it was Cpt. Kirk who said...
Fortune Favors the Foolish
"Stulti Fortuna Juvat"
If he's anything like most of us geeks, we'll buy the geek toys ourselves to make sure we get exactly what we want.
So, my suggestion is, get him something non-geeky that he'd like or has commented on that shows you realize he is much more than just Geek.