Adios Sony, Let's try this again

[Dr. Drib]

Roy White is too gracious to mention this, but he has also been an important contributor to making quite a number of those thousands of books available right here on this site.

Thanks, Roy.

Don

P.S.: Where have you been, Roy, and what's the latest title you're working on? --- No no, wait. don't tell me; let it be a surprise.

[Roy White]

Don. I haven't been able to get Book Designer to work since I got a new computer. I've tried over and over to load it bit apparently it wont work with Windows Vista so I've kind of given up on it. (I feel a bit guilty about that) We've been pretty busy this year too with family matters. Our Son's have all been moving out to a: Get marrried, b: Join the Air Force. C: Go to College.

(I know. I'm such a whiner)

[Catire]

Originally Posted by Roy White

Don. I haven't been able to get Book Designer to work since I got a new computer. I've tried over and over to load it bit apparently it wont work with Windows Vista so I've kind of given up on it. (I feel a bit guilty about that) We've been pretty busy this year too with family matters. Our Son's have all been moving out to a: Get marrried, b: Join the Air Force. C: Go to College.

(I know. I'm such a whiner)

Have you tried this?
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Book...Best_Practices

I installed BD and it didn't work untill i did everything mentioned there.

[knstanley]

With regard to the original post, this seems to be a common trend over at Sony.

Just look at what they are doing with their blu-ray players. The people who bought profile 1.0 players will most likely never be able to update them to profile 1.1 and eventually profile 2.0. This means they are missing out on blu-ray disc features they they PAID for when they bought the discs (which are way overpriced anyway).

I really don't understand Sony and their decisions for not offering downward compatibility and such. It just shows that they really don't care about their customers, but rather, about the money.

[kesey]

Originally Posted by knstanley

With regard to the original post, this seems to be a common trend over at Sony.

Just look at what they are doing with their blu-ray players. The people who bought profile 1.0 players will most likely never be able to update them to profile 1.1 and eventually profile 2.0. This means they are missing out on blu-ray disc features they they PAID for when they bought the discs (which are way overpriced anyway).

I really don't understand Sony and their decisions for not offering downward compatibility and such. It just shows that they really don't care about their customers, but rather, about the money.

knstanley, you are partially correct re Blu-ray players. However, the Playstation 3 is one of the best Blu-ray players out there. It allows 1080P resolution, Profile 2.0, HD Master Audio, Dolby True HD and all the legacy audio codecs a guy might need.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...of-player.html

Until recently, the PS3 included SACD capability as part of the package. New models don't but then again SACD never achieved market success and HD MA and True HD can no doubt cope. The PS3 is software upgradeable and has been getting magnificent support from Sony. Sony have provided every benefit possible which is software dependent, and continue to do so. I doubt you will find many audio or video nerds who have the PS3 who would complain about the backup provided and received c.v.http://www.avforums.com or http://www.avsforum.com/

Regarding price of disks, not much to be said. Regionalisation exists, as it does in books p&e type. There are companies e.g. movietyme.com which are relatively well priced. Our transatlantic cousins and Asian cousins can naturally avail of better prices than we can - but that is not Sony's call.

Certainly Sony is not a saint. It does dump products that do not work, are obsolescent by progress, lack of market success etc. etc. So does every other tech company...Apple Newton, Dell mp3 player, Philips DAT and ad infinitum for a load of other things. Not every product though.

The point is that the PRS 505 is a fine machine and will be usable for a long long time - esp with software like Calibre about to enable adaptation of different species of file formats. It will be superseded for sure, but will still be an eminently fine Reader.