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feature, extensive featurettes presented in full 1080p HD video, which in some cases
just showed a blank screen.
Reportedly, the problem apparently is caused by a player's lack of playback support
for BD-Java-enhanced titles. Sony for example, promised a firmware upgrade early
in 2007, which was issued. Pioneer was not reported as promising the same, yet.
Sony's PlayStation 3 and other firmware-updated standalone Blu-ray players were
reported to perform correctly, although I personally had some problems with playing
back 1080p24fps where the image seemed to be jumpy at times, missing frames;
Sony firmware upgrade was supposed to correct that problem as well but I did not
install the upgrade yet.
The Samsung player had several issues of concern at launch, mainly regarding
picture quality, firmware updates were delivered to correct some of the problems.
HD DVD
The HD DVD format was also reported to have its own technical glitches with some
titles (some mentioned were 'The Matador,' Derailed,' and 'Wolf Creek'), and some
player/remote/HDMI issues, True-HD limited to 2-channel, etc.
Toshiba and RCA players received firmware upgrades as well to correct some of the
problems.
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