And lo On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:09:54 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake thusly:

> On 10/18/2011 5:13, Francois Labreque wrote:
>> Darren's 54" HD TV / portable phone / 18Mpixel DSLR camera / 5.1 surrond
>> sound system combo device, of course.
>
> 46" actually. The condo isn't that big.
>
> But yah, the new Sony Bravia.  You turn it on, it bounces around a bit,  
> says "Hey, I'm a 46" TV!  I'm gonna go black now to finish configuration  
> of the hardware..."   It then reboots. Then it says "Hey, do the initial  
> setup, including telling me your network settings and all."  Then it  
> says "Thanks for the configuration! Now I'm gonna reboot!"   Then it  
> comes back and says "Hey, there's new firmware, do you want it?"   
> 10%...30%...100%... "I'm gonna reboot to install the firmware!"

Probably two operating systems - hardware and user interfacing; the latter  
can read but not write to the hardware and so it needs to reboot to the  
other OS to save things. A bit like the PS3 updates.

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Phil Cook

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