Westinghouse boasts of easy LCD upgrades via online firmware updates
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cheese head @ Feb 18th 2008 12:50AM
I've updated my westy this way before and it works well. I had to beg Sony to get one out of them, and they would only provide it by sending me a small USB drive in the mail with it prelloaded.
RockinOscar @ Feb 18th 2008 1:15AM
who else does this? other than westinghouse and sony?
Andy @ Feb 18th 2008 2:08AM
Philips has it too.
Gremlin @ Feb 18th 2008 2:34AM
I thought thats how most electronics receive firmware updates when they don't have direct (wifi or ethernet) access to the internet...
GhostDoggy @ Feb 18th 2008 5:50AM
Let's just acknowledge that software cannot always overcome the limitations in the hardware. For instance, you cannot expect lower black levels, higher contrast ratio, or faster refresh rates then was is already a technology-limiting condition.
mike @ Feb 18th 2008 7:57AM
how is this a big deal? All the manufactures already do this. westinghouse is late to the game here. I upgraded my samsungs firmware last year.
SPARTEN II @ Feb 18th 2008 7:57AM
I got a new Westinghouse TV about a month ago, and was about to return it because of some major ghosting issues. But I didn't need to because I upgraded the firmware, and it completely solved the problem.
Allen @ Feb 18th 2008 1:18PM
Westinghouse is coming on strong, with this people can get xxYcc updates and such... nice.
Still, 8ms response time compared to a Sharp's 6ms, or an LG's 5ms, or the Philips EcoTV reported 2ms. Yawn.....
starcrossedpimp @ Feb 19th 2008 3:29PM
yeah but this is restricted to certain models, i tried to update my LTV-37 w2 HD and the website kept giving me an error message
ProudWiiOwner @ Feb 26th 2008 7:38PM
me too!!! its frustrating. what did you do??