I have never been completely happy with this refurbished Insignia Blu-Ray and NetFlix portal. It often freezes as though a memory leak has finally caught up with it. (It seems to be number of transactions, not time, which is why I suspect a memory leak.) Now, I have friends whose reaction would be to take the box apart, find the appropriate in-circuit emulator, and repair the firmware. No, I am not kidding. A friend had a high-end digital piano, thought one of the notes was slightly off -- and went in and fixed the code to make the note correct, while also saving some code space in the ROM.
I have better things to do with my time. When the power supply suddenly became unreliable, I decided it was time to scrap it. So I bought this instead:
So far it has been very reliable, pretty easy to setup, and it takes up much less space.
I have friends like that too.
ReplyDeleteHeck, if I could afford an ICE and had room for a fuil electronics lab, I'd do that.
There's very little more satisfying than tracking down the cause of an intermittent fault and fixing it.
Just as a heads up, the Firefox Adblock Edge plugin considers your Amazon links (like the one in this post) to be ads and blocks them. I don't know if you can fix this, but I did want to let you know.
ReplyDeleteSertorius: they are ads, and it is doing its job. For those who don't have it turned on, it might be a chance to make a sale!
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