On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:33:23PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
Test the player lots when you get it, the first one I had would freeze up seemingly at random.
Thanks for the tip, I will do. Do you have the latest firmware on yours?
Erm, not sure. There were firmware problems and a new one was released recently. I know the new one shipped with the oldest firmware but I do have a rollback disc somewhere to use in case of problems.
Oh, and the HD-EP30 runs Linux too,
I just Googled for more info on this but couldn't find any obvious references?
Aye, says in License Agreement that comes with the player that portions of this that and the other are GPL software and that includes busybox and the linux kernel iirc.
Not that I can actually see a situation that I would want to try and update firmware with a custom build on something like a television ;)
On the contrary, I've often been frustrated by silly firmware bugs in consumer electronics that I'd have loved the opportunity to go and fix (or at least go looking). I figure that hardware development is pretty expensive and products often ship with relatively weak software simply to get the boxes shifted. Since the HD-EP30 has network capability, for example, it would be nice if it could stream video to/from another destination/source, but AFAIK this is not an option?
Isn't an option and tbh I don't think it ever would be. For consumer stuff like this having the source probably won't help as I imagine that the drivers for all of the hardware would require documentation that simply isn't going to be available to the end user. A bit like with Nvidia gfx cards and how ATI gfx used to be.
Adam