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In Reply to: RE: "Glitches" not necessarily "failures" of the following sort: posted by Sboez on October 16, 2009 at 18:04:22

Exactly.
All of the symptoms you report could be caused by software bugs in player firmware. It is entirely possible that every single unit in the field has these problems, but depending on customer usage patterns only some people saw them. It is also possible that firwmare bugs only showed up with certain hardware. (I have seen the appearance of a firmware bug be hidden by certain lot numbers of a dual port memory, for example.)
The quality of a product using digital technology includes the quality of the firmware. All manufacturers have bugs in their firmware. The quality of a company is demonstrated by the way they handle these bugs.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

Edits: 10/18/09

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