JojoBar said:No
If he want to save ISO playback that is he can do ISO, therefore he can do an ISO with L & T and then play back via the BDP93 ...
Time to expand storage space for use with my Oppo, which USB powered 2TB HDD are you using ?
If you look real hard, you might find a 1TB 2.5" drive (I think WD has one) you could put in your own case (Macally has a nice one) .
Hi chaps,
I have the CA 651BD player (essentially the BDP93). The CA751BD comes with the USB Wifi adaptor and they both share the same firmware.
Anyone know where I can purchase the Oppo USB Wifi adaptor? Would be cool to use the networking facilities
Has anyone got a copy of the old firmware that they could send me please?
You do know that you cannot revert back to a previous firmware version if you've applied a newer one?
You do know that you cannot revert back to a previous firmware version if you've applied a newer one?
Dead right, but it is a good player.A very stupid feature in my opinion. It is asking for trouble not to be able to go back.
A very stupid feature in my opinion. It is asking for trouble not to be able to go back.
I agree that it is common not to go back with firmware. However It could be easy to re-flash to an older firmware without hanging the machine. All the pointers and dynamic links could have default values. Old computer were able to upgrade the BIOS, backup the current and go back if needed. Once the firmware is in memory it should be able to write to the chip and reboot the machine.not really. it's perfectly common among software, especially firmware.
When you write a new firmware, it's very easy to make sure you write the code such that it can handle any temporary files/pointers/dynamic links that may be created by older firmwares, cause you know what they were. Older firmwares have no idea what may be contained by new firmwares and if they encounter something they don't know how to handle can lock up and brick your machine.
Sure you can work around this, but rather than take the risk of bricked machines a lot of hardware designers won't let you go back. i have 4 firmware upgradable devices in my rack, none of them can go back to an older firmware, all can only be updated to new
Oppo say it's a Netflix requirement -- I guess if someone were to find a way to capture their streams they'd want to be able to patch the firmware and make sure nobody could install the older compromised firmware.
I agree that it is common not to go back with firmware. However It could be easy to re-flash to an older firmware without hanging the machine. All the pointers and dynamic links could have default values. Old computer were able to upgrade the BIOS, backup the current and go back if needed. Once the firmware is in memory it should be able to write to the chip and reboot the machine.
Owen Smith said:Given I have no interest in running Netflix this is irrelevant as far as I am concerned. But then so is removing ISO support but Oppo still did it. Damned evil companies dictating to us consumers what we may and may not do with equipment we have paid for. One day the boot will be on the other foot and these companies had better watch out.
Quite. I write firmware for a living, and any of our products can have any version of software downloaded from the earliest which supported that hardware to the very latest at any time.
I think that stupid here might not be used literally. I think that it is more like annoying or a feature which is done no thinking in the Consumer but in the money making big corps. It is the norm but it does not mean that it cannot be "stupid". In my opinion the region coding of DVD is a stupid feature nevertheless it is the norm. I do not think that there is a single consumer that benefit from this norm. In the same token the constant changing of the Blu-Ray Authoring that we have a perfectly legal disc that the player cannot play....
i guess i just thought calling something which is the norm in the industry a "stupid feature" was a bit odd