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In Reply to: RE: 6000 units to get one working one? snicker posted by keith_d on October 16, 2009 at 10:21:55
"And your invocation of 6000 units is clearly hysterical: It would indicate there were _no_ working units to any consumer, ever. That's just not reality."
Every heard of Windows 3.1? Millions of non-working copies shipped. Good enough for some. Good enough for others not to complain. Good enough to make Bill Gates billions. You get the idea...
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Because buggy is a larger spectrum than "won't play a CD." And you could replicate a real bug at a computer store most of the time - if you have a clue.
And further, there were volumes of complaints about that software.
Again, it's simple: The episode of one individual requiring six units (or 6000 in your hilarious example,) would, if based in reality, imply a huge percentage failure in the field. That didn't happen. This one case was an outlier for some reason, and not due to a unit's failure, or two units' failure...because he had SIX of them.
lol. Carry on.
- failure to initialize (some) disks;
- fast forwarding to the next track cuts out a fraction of the start of
the music of that track;
- stop button on the remote does not stop CD;
- stop button on player, if depressed, does not stop CD operation;
- lifting of the lid does not stop disk rotation, where it usually does;
- garbled audio (dropouts).
I have experienced all of the above noted "gremlins." I believe Doug Schroeder wrote honestly about his experiences.
If you read again, Mr Schroeder was able to demonstrate the defect to a dealer with his second unit.
Otherwise the sound (sans glitches)of the player is very good.
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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