Week of June 17th, 2011

[Troy King]

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June 17th, 2011

Listener Email #1
Hi Troy,
I was extremely upset last week when I decided to check if there was an update for my Samsung BluRay player. Sure enough, there was an update, and I decided to download it. Halfway through the installation process, the BluRay player rebooted and then flashed some error message. I thought it was bricked! Fortunately, I was able to download the update to a flash drive, plug it in, and update successfully from there, but a successful company like Samsung should have better quality than that! Even after the update, the player is still sluggish to load movies. Technology is great, but can’t anyone get it right?
Keep up the good work
Richard in Florida

Listener Email #2
Troy,
I bought Inception on BluRay this last week as it had the BluRay, DVD, and Digital Copy editions. I open it up and to my anger and frustration, find that the Digital Copy version “expired” May 31st! What a complete rip off! Talk about false advertising! Needless to say, I’m ripping this bad boy right now!
Love the show
Mike in Hawaii

My rager of the week:
Media PC has been freezing during playback
Did a complete memory test, video card update, defrag, and swapped out hard drives
1 TB drive will not successfully format: zero-writing for three days
8 months out of warranty (1 year)
Western Digital: boo!

Apple extends claims against Samsung patent infringement
Two devices thrown out, but three more added
Stronger wording: Samsung “has been even bolder” than others
Samsung have created “products that blatantly imitate the appearance of Apple's products to capitalize on Apple's success”
Boring rows of icons capitalize on your success? Shut the front door!

Sega Pass hacked, but payment info not stolen
Names, email, passwords (not in plain text)
Since when have people given money to Sega?

Duke Nukem PR People Publicly Threaten Those Who Give Bad Reviews
After 10 years being vaporware, the game really is bad
PR firm Redner Group rep tweeted that those who gave bad reviews would not receive review copies next time… oops!
Rep recanted and said he was overzealous and voiced his opinion; firm got fired for his opinion

Spammers Discover Kindle Self-Publishing
Loads of 99 cent books flood the Amazon Book Store
Amazon seems to be pretty good about delisting fraudulent books and refunding people’s money
When I said “get a job”, I meant digging ditches!