Thousands of users across the internet are reporting severe issues with their Samsung Blu-ray players, home theater, and home cinema systems.
[…]A more realistic explanation is that the issues are being caused by an expired SSL certificate that the Samsung Blu-ray players were using to connect to Samsung servers via HTTPS.
I kept thinking about smart locks stuck in reboot loops.
So, we were able to fix Mars Rovers’ reboot loop across millions of miles in space:
https://www.itworld.com/article/2832818/the-day-a-software-bug-almost-killed-the-spirit-rover.html
But cannot fix a simple home device even after so much trying.
Okay one of these is NASA, but the bug was completely unexpected, and the fault tolerance systems made it worse. The difference was being able to enter a debug mode.
Most consumer devices remove debugging ports on their motherboards fearing hacks. But then when a real need for debugging happens we have no more means.
Really, I understand that they may not want people to just plug a pen drive and be able to rewrite the firmware, but now that flash/eprom are, mostly, soldered on boards, why don’t they just let exist a jumper to easy the task of fixing firmware problems is beyond my comprehension.
Why let you do that when needing to buy a new unit is preferable to their bottom line?
Just another reminder to NEVER buy Samsung products. They are almost always lower quality, have more issues, last a shorter period of time, but other than that, their GREAT! cough cough
This is from personal experience where my wife was a huge Samsung fan and used to always buy their products. She has finally realized that every time her sister buys something she feels SHE needs to buy the same product but always bought Samsung while her sister bought LG or Sony or … well another brand. She finally noticed (I’ve been trying to get her to realize this for years) that her sister’s devices last longer more than 95% of the time.
And products that I’M buying, which aren’t Samsung (everything) they last at least as long as her sisters and friends (of my wife’s and her sister’s, they are very close).
I have my PS3 which still works great. She bought a Samsung Blu-ray player that is doing the same thing as everyone else’s Samsung Blu-ray player. I made sure she knew that the PS3 is three times as old as her Samsung Blu-ray player and is still going strong with games that I still play often. I’ll finally update my PS3 to a PS5 IF, IF, IFFFF Gran Turismo has a great SINGLE player version. If not, I’ll stick with my tried and true PS3 until it breaks. I might die first. Hopefully there will be a GOOD Gran Turismo coming out. The one for the PS4 is not to my liking and I thank the gods that I didn’t buy what for me would have been a very bad investment.
I’ve got a Samsung Blu-Ray player! Hmm – thank goodness, it’s an issue with updates pushed over the internet, and I never let any appliance onto the net for obvious reasons, so I’m good. 🙂
This obsession with putting EVERYTHING on the net is silly and getting a lot of people into trouble. People haven’t learned a thing since the days when thieves would drive down streets clicking their universal garage door openers to find the next house to plunder.
“This obsession with putting EVERYTHING on the net is silly”
Not silly, the main objective is no longer to sell a usable appliance that performs a well defined task for the device *owner*. The main objective is to monetize the *user*, through data collection and targeted advertising.