because you're betting that pioneer will update the player's firmware to support the forthcoming features, i guess . . . lack of HDMI 1.3 isn't a big deal, but the question of whether a BD player released now will ever support the interactive content coming later this year is relevant.
"because you're betting that pioneer will update the player's firmware to support the forthcoming features, i guess"
Yeah, but it's already been confirmed that the problems aren't software, but instead are hardware - current BD players being released don't have the hardware to do PIP and other things that the final spec will require. Maybe this player does, nobody knows, but I wouldn't bank on it.
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neek @ May 9th 2007 1:55PM
because you're betting that pioneer will update the player's firmware to support the forthcoming features, i guess . . . lack of HDMI 1.3 isn't a big deal, but the question of whether a BD player released now will ever support the interactive content coming later this year is relevant.
Xyzzy @ May 9th 2007 4:18PM
"because you're betting that pioneer will update the player's firmware to support the forthcoming features, i guess"
Yeah, but it's already been confirmed that the problems aren't software, but instead are hardware - current BD players being released don't have the hardware to do PIP and other things that the final spec will require. Maybe this player does, nobody knows, but I wouldn't bank on it.