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Re:Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors by saghm on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:50PM (#38829110)
> The root problem is that Sony exited the market and left a lot of cinema owners out to dry with the looming cost of $50,000+ per auditorium for replacement projectors.

That's the point I was trying to make; if someone accidentally pushed a broken update, that sucks, but its not the first or the last time it will happen, and at least there's a clear path to it getting fixed and someone being paid to do it. The cert being expired and the only company who would have been in charge of fixing that not really caring anymore sounds to me worse from pretty much any possible point of view, and selling a product that will stop working if you decide to stop servicing it seems pretty terrible.

Re:Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors by Libcat99 on Monday January 01, 2024 @06:59AM (#38831248)
And yet, many of the products we buy are exactly that. Gaming consoles dependant on online stores, smart TVs with software that could become useless at any moment, hundreds of little iot devices that are dependent on the manufacturers cloud being online... The list goes on.

This kind of thing is all over the consumer world. In a way it's cathartic to see it hitting businesses too.