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On 18/10/2011 4:36 PM, Invisible wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 03:27 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Darren New<dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
>>> My new Sony had to reboot 3 times before it was actually ready to
>>> watch.
>>> Very odd.
>>
>> Funny. I have no idea what you are talking about.
>
> I'm glad it's not just me...
http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/sony-tablet
http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/vaio-notebooks
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Stephen
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On 10/18/2011 2:31, Invisible wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 05:01 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> My new Sony had to reboot 3 times before it was actually ready to watch.
>> Very odd.
>
> New Sony... what?
Sorry. New Sony TV. Me culpa.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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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!"
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 10/18/2011 7:27, Warp wrote:
> Funny. I have no idea what you are talking about.
Sorry. Sony TV. Had it been an actual computer or game system or something,
it would have been par for the course. But a TV? :-)
Oh, and it also has trouble responding promptly to user input for half a
minute after you turn it on, with menus scrolling inconsistently and remote
keystrokes getting queued.
It's getting to the point where our consumer electronics is just as bad as
our sophisticated and flexible computers.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Oh, and it also has trouble responding promptly to user input for half a
> minute after you turn it on, with menus scrolling inconsistently and remote
> keystrokes getting queued.
> It's getting to the point where our consumer electronics is just as bad as
> our sophisticated and flexible computers.
It's almost becoming full circle. Back in the 50's or so it would take
a TV half a minute to warm up before the picture came on.
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- Warp
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On 18/10/2011 05:09 PM, Darren New wrote:
> 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!"
That's just poor. No other way to describe it.
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 10/18/2011 9:42, Warp wrote:
> It's almost becoming full circle. Back in the 50's or so it would take
> a TV half a minute to warm up before the picture came on.
Half a minute? Try at least 3 or 4 before the picture was actually stable. :-)
I *am* amused that one of the selling points on the box is that it turns on
some 30% faster than the previous model.
Granted, it's a sophisticated beast, with a decent web browser, a wireless
DLNA renderer, a camera to notice you aren't actually watching TV any more
and turn itself off, control via HDMI of other various devices (like, you
can turn off the PS3 and/or sound system by turning off the TV if you set it
up that way), etc. For a thing like that, it's actually pretty quick to
start up and be ready. Faster even than the previous TV that did much less,
and 10x as fast as my phone (which also has poor responsiveness for several
minutes after being started up - when will people learn that desktop OSes do
real-time very poorly?)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 10/18/2011 10:04, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 05:09 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
>> 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!"
>
> That's just poor. No other way to describe it.
Yet, in practice, nobody really cares.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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>> That's just poor. No other way to describe it.
>
> Yet, in practice, nobody really cares.
EXCEPT ME, of course...
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> with a decent web browser
What does a TV need a web browser for?
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