Archive for April, 2007

Sony Fesses Up !

April 18, 2007

A couple of websites are reporting Sony has now fessed up to the problem (they now say it WAS a problem with the copy protection) and are re-issuing and replacing the faulty DVD’s. http://consumerist.com/consumer/sony/sony-recalls-broken-drm+filled-dvds-253470.php 
 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070418-sony-to-replace-incompatible-dvds.html
End of story?  Maybe……
Are they going to replace all of Netflix & Blockbusters stock of faulty DVD’s?
I have just searched the Sony USA website [...]

UPDATE:

April 17, 2007

I called Sony today about the firmware update.  After getting disconnected once by technical support I was finally told to call Sony Style.  Called Sony Style repeated everything again, kept getting put on hold while the rep checked “information”.  Finally was told the firmware update is still not available and they do not have a [...]