Early Blu-ray problems makes main-stream news

The fact that buyers of early standalone Blu-ray players are going to be left with no upgrade path is starting to make main-stream news. Don't the quotes just give you a warm fuzzy feeling?

Some choice comments from the BBC article

"The discussions related to features took place at a point in time when every hardware company had frozen the architecture for their first generation of players"
Frank Simonis, of Philips and the European chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association

"We needed to create momentum and get the players on the market. If we had postponed launch to add in the hardware for the latest features, we would not be in the situation we have today."
Frank Simonis, of Philips and the European chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association


"The guys that bought the first Blu-ray players are the guys who bought the first laser discs. They know the risks."
Alastair Upham from DVD Review

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7187179.stm

Edited to clarify owner of third quote.

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[Post edited by Scotsman on Jan 16, 2008]

Thats just a nice way of saying...



HA HA HA HA HA! Sucker!

Wow. I'm not surprised yet I am.

You can't tell people "you knew what you were getting into". Once bluray has the interactive and web abilities figured out they should do something for these early adopters that won't be able to take advantage of the feautures. Otherwise you're going to have a lot of annoyed customers and they're not exactly going to be eager to keep buying movies.

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 16, 2008]

Falcon, you're surprised that Blu-ray players without an Ethernet port cannot access online features?

I'm surprised at the attitude being portrayed here. Is that really the answer you want to give your early adopters? "you know what you were gettign into". Come on. Even if that is your mindset you should never say that to your customers.

If that's the attitude they will take this early on I would hate to see whats going to happen in the future if they are the only high definition format.

More and more I hope the two formats remain.

the quote
"We needed to create momentum and get the players on the market. If we had postponed launch to add in the hardware for the latest features, we would not be in the situation we have today."

Is not his way of saying we made a mistake. He's saying if we hadn't rushed to market with a half finished spec HD-DVD would have become dominant.

Don't you just love it when a company/companies shaft the consumer and then brags about it?

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"you know what you were getting into".

Actually the Scotsman was a little deceiving with this quote: "The guys that bought the first Blu-ray players are the guys who bought the first laser discs. They know the risks." It was Alastair Upham from DVD Review who said this - not Frank Simonis, of Philips. Alastair Upham is a longtime infamous HD DVD supporter. He's basically the "Bill Hunt" of the HD DVD world

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Actually the Scotsman was a little deceiving with this quote: "The guys that bought the first Blu-ray players are the guys who bought the first laser discs. They know the risks."

Not my intention I attributed the first two quotes but not that one. apologies for any confusion.

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[Post edited by Scotsman on Jan 16, 2008]

yai!.. lets party

Here's are the quotes from engadgethd.com who by the way is anobvious pro-bluray site.

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As if there hasn't been enough debate over the inability of Profile 1.0 players to make the leap to Profile 1.1 / 2.0, the folks manning the Blu-ray booth at CES gave us all something else to yap about. According to BetaNews, BD representatives on hand proclaimed that early adopters "knew what they were getting into" when they purchased a player that lacked advanced functionality such as Bonus View and BD Live. Apparently, BDA President Andy Parsons felt the same way, as he noted that it was par for the course for technology to evolve and change. 'Course, we suppose there's no room to argue with that, but we can certainly sympathize with folks yearning for an easier way to receive Profile updates. Then again, it's not like the Blu camp had much choice but to pull the trigger and rush players to market if it wanted to keep pace with HD DVD, right?

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/14/blu-ray-early-adopters-knew-what-they-were-getting-into-appar/