It seems the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak by Nate True we all rushed to install is throwing a handful of problems, some of which are fixable and some of which leave us wishing we had waited a little bit. Here’s what we know so far from personal experience and what we’ve read on the Internet.
More trouble for Blu-ray comes as newer titles Fantastic 4 and The Day After Tomorrow are running into playback problems with Samsung’s BDP-1200 and LG’s BH100. This is different from the previous problems with disc extras that were unplayable (which had more to do with BD-Java spec incompatibility) in that it’s the entire movie that’s unplayable. Samsung’s BDP-1000 can play them, but suffer from error messages and stutter. Bad news? It’s BD+ copy protection that’s causing it. The worse news? LG will have a firmware update in 3-4 days, but Samsung will take “a couple” weeks. [High Def Digest]
We checked out the Canon EOS-1D Mark III at PMA’07 and were blown away by this wonder camera. And rightly so, because the camera is amazing… except for one little problem.
Remember when we talked about inconsistent Blu-ray BD-Java implementation and how it would cause problems for users? This video illustrates what we mean. A guy recorded himself updating the firmware of his Sony Blu-ray player, then attempting to go and play the Liar’s Dice game in Pirates of the Caribbean 2. The end result is comical.
This is what we were talking about when we said the changing BD-J spec causes problems for developers when coding. Watch the video and see for yourself. – Jason Chen
The HD DVD consortium claims they had nothing to do with the making of this video.
If you’ve just purchased the first two Pirates movies on Blu-ray in order to get psyched up for the third one, you probably came up with a whole lot less Johnny Depp and a whole lot more firmware problems than you expected. Apparently at least two players—Samsung’s BD-P1200 and Sony’s BDP-S1—have difficulty playing back the first two movies. And by difficulty, we mean they throw up their hands and give up like a fat man at the starting line of a 10K.
Samsung’s already released a firmware update here, which fixes the problem. You can either burn the firmware update onto CD or download it via the BD-P1200′s LAN connection. Which brings us to another point. Why isn’t the Ethernet in the Blu-ray spec?
