Universal Players vs. Dedicated CD/SACD Players
jafant, I ran across this today and thought it might be of interest (scroll down to the second item): http://www.analogshop.com/index.php/demo-used I am not affiliated with the sale or store in any way. |
Jafant, No, I bought the Pioneer BDP09 used several years ago from a dentist in Connecticut. It worked great with DVDs, and I only used it recently for Blu-Ray and found it wouldn't play them. Remembering that the dentist had included about six discs, which he explained were "firmware updates", I called Pioneer and they sent me the latest firmware update disc (without charge). Now, it works great but the idea of having to regularly update the player seems ridiculous to me. I could understand if each update improved the performance, but in the case of the BDP09, it simply refused to play Blu-Ray until the update was complete. A beautiful player though! |
tonykay I have a Sony BDP that seems to require a firmware update every time I use it. Frequently it won't play Blu Rays unless the update is done. It's unbelievably frustrating (it's in a second system in a room we keep woprkout equipment in) and usually I just opt for listening to music via the aforementioned Pioneer Elite Universal Player while exercising because I don't want to start my morning with the hassle of another firmware update on the Sony. And the industry wonders why Blu Ray had such a hard time competing against streaming! My wife is always asking me to do the updates and is totally intimidated by the difficulty associated with what ought to be the easiest thing imaginable--popping in a disc and hitting "play" |
