A few Bluray questions for the WHIFI team

cwalduck

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Is it the Bluray disks that don’t comply with the Bluray specifications or the players?

Numerous disks require firmware updates to players which enable playback of certain Bluray films.

In the long term it would appear that the Bluray format will fail due to compatibility issues unless the industry does something about these issues.

Where film producers/hardware manufactures are one in the same e.g. Sony it is easy to release firmware before the file goes on sale thus giving a false sense of compatibility, but where they are not it’s currently an complete pain in the Khybur Pass when it goes wrong.

Clearly from a customer point of view continuous firmware updates are not acceptable.

Surely making simple compatible disks should be a priority for all new releases to quiet down these issues.

What if anything do whathifi do about passing back consumer comments about the software?
 

Clare Newsome

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Yep, we follow it up with both the distributors of the disc and the Blu-ray Disc Association - see this News story about EIV for an example.

In that instance it was specification rather than firmware issues, but in either case it's a pain - something I covered off in this blog I wrote about Blu-ray firmware frustrations almost exactly a year ago.

SInce then, the increasing spread of Profile 2.0/BD Live compatible players has meant less issues (though still the odd stubborn release), but for owners of earlier machines, the pain continues.

Add in the continuing nightmare of HDMI handshaking, and no wonder Sky HD Movies, Virgin's video on demand etc are becoming so popular....
 

nads

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Andrew Everard:Blu-ray will be really good when it's finished...

Like HD DVD was
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professorhat

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lduck:In the long term it would appear that the Bluray format will fail due to compatibility issues unless the industry does something about these issues.

Well, DVD had similar issues at the beginning (remember The Matrix fiasco?) and it did okay in the end.
 

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