Reading through a lot of the discussion on here since the launch, it seems that one of the fears has probably been realised. When this thing was first discussed all of the IT literate people were talking about how easy it was to connect an HDMI cable. It probably was but it was all the stuff that came after it and all the talks of bit rates and download speeds etc etc that were going to be the killer.
I'm not an IT geek but know my way around a computer and I have absolutely no idea what you lot are talking about. If you're a serious technophobe and you've made the plunge and got a shite connection, I very much doubt you have the nous to do all the things you guys have discussed as ways to get around the problems.
This comes back to the point I made a few pages back, if you're able to trouble shoot this thing then you're probably going to be able to make this work reasonably well. Plenty on here don't seem to mind having to do that.
The ones complaining to radio sport are most likely those who just want to turn the thing on and have it work perfectly without having to fiddle with the settings - I have plenty of sympathy for that view.
The bit rates is literally just clicking the button that says "best available" and changing it to anything else. About as hard as working out how to pause it. Hardly IT geeky. Have sympathy for those having lag issues despite that though, must be frustrating.
If you're not on here how do you know to do that though?
Same way I did, "this picture is a bit off, I'll click this button"
Or their FAQs actually give this instruction.
You can't tell me that clicking a button is too technical for people. Even if they don't figure it out, the FAQs are there, then if they don't figure that out there is the live chat, where the help people would tell them to do it. etc etc.
Perhaps they could put "Image quality:" next to the button in the player to make it clearer.
It shouldn't put people off, and I don't actually think it is. The biggest issue I've seen that has made people think twice about purchasing is the possibility of the game freezing. They have given some people tips on avoiding it, but they're not always particularly effective or ideal.