http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/ Engadget Comments for Sony offers firmware upgrade for 400,000 TVs on the fritz http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/
Would greatly appreciate info to fix this problem
Thanks in advance for your help.

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I could be wrong though lol]]>Feb 14th 2006 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/
ready, set, go.]]>Feb 14th 2006 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/
One, not very likely would be over the HDMI Interface. That seems very clunky as it would require some custom hardware memory apparateous to hold the upgrade, then connect over HDMI. But that is a pure digital connection so I guess it would be a possibility.

The far more likely candidate is the fact that my Sony LCD has a Memory Stick reader. Pop an upgrade onto a Sony memory stick along with some exectuable/boot code, pop it into your TV, turn it on and watch it upgrade.

"But I don't have a memory stick" - yeah, well me neither. But you were asking how they would update it. That would be the easiest to accomplish for the largest number of people.]]>Feb 14th 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/
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If so, I would be extremely upset that they were lying to me, trying to cover up this issue - only to find out later that it was more widespread than they had thought...]]>Feb 14th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/
Some of you need to get a grip. It's not the end of the world. Would you rather they did nothing?

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Could be wrong but that is what I would guess.]]>Feb 14th 2006 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 14th 2006 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/
And as Chris Heuer mentioned, I wonder how many people will be charged for service because of this (when the TV doesn't go on, it's awfully easy for a repairman to blame it on anything (even unknowingly (in this case, if you unplug the tv 30 secs, it resets it so the serviceman, could try to turn it on, doesn't work, does a bit of diagnostic, still doesn't work, unplugs it, changes the bulb to see and all of a sudden, it's been more than 30 seconds so the tv turns on and he thinks it's because the bulb was bad so charges you for it).
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10 seconds and done. No biggie]]>Feb 16th 2006 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 17th 2006 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Feb 20th 2006 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/sony-offers-firmware-upgrade-for-400-000-tvs-on-the-fritz/Bye Bye to Sony , I just dont have the time to test Sony's Beta-LCD's]]>May 25th 2006 10:33PM