Zenith DVB318 1080i Progressive-Scan DVD Player
A. Sukhareva's a dolt.
Just received my DVB-318 from Amazon yesterday (9/3/04). Build date of December, 2003...sealed box. Old firmware. Gorgeous upconversion to 1080i on the component outs. Best \\"bang for buck\\" I've experienced in home theatre... <br /> <br />If you go to any HD forum, you'll see that people have been receiving units with build dates of March, '04 with the old firmware, and that the only distribution of the newer firmware has been by CD, through customer requests to LG (the actual manufacturer). <br /> <br />Does Sukhareva believe that Amazon or the distributor has a staff opening 6-9 month old units, reflashing them, and repacking them as a favor to LG? Or are these all shipped back to the manufacturer for reflashing, and redistributed, completely negating any of the meager profit margin on a $150 DVD player? <br /> <br />If you do an Amazon search on Sukie's product, you'll see it has a whole set of 'sponsored links' here...I don't know if he's a SHILL - but  if I were Amazon (hint, hint), I'd check into it. <br /> <br />Maybe Amazon should require having actually SEEN an item before reviewing it.