02-Jun-2016, 12:25
Guys, I'm already regretting my posts since I nowadays no longer enjoy these discussions. They're not helping me enjoy this hobby or going forward.
But to conclude; my main point in my last post was that the upgrades issued thus far by Devialet -to me- are of little value and quality. The initial release of the D-Premier was great but anything that followed -again to me- has proven to be of little value. This including the hardware upgrades which in the end and -again to me- have proven to have a low value for money.
I guess it's all subjective, the value being determined by what you're seeing being released and implemented elsewhere. Perhaps my wishes and expectations exceed those of others and so for now I can't conclude anything different than that Devialet should no longer be the brand I should/want to invest in. I feel like the product, not the customer and to be frank a cash cow needed to pay back investors with this seemingly adopted planned absolescene policy. And EVO (which has always existed but perhaps was only later named this way when they hired that guy who made up all those idiotic three letter acronyms) of course is mainly software driven and 'free' but hardware upgrades in some cases are required to support these new EVO functionality.
Anyway I'm done, I'm taking a break from this forum and anything else Devialet related for while.
But to conclude; my main point in my last post was that the upgrades issued thus far by Devialet -to me- are of little value and quality. The initial release of the D-Premier was great but anything that followed -again to me- has proven to be of little value. This including the hardware upgrades which in the end and -again to me- have proven to have a low value for money.
I guess it's all subjective, the value being determined by what you're seeing being released and implemented elsewhere. Perhaps my wishes and expectations exceed those of others and so for now I can't conclude anything different than that Devialet should no longer be the brand I should/want to invest in. I feel like the product, not the customer and to be frank a cash cow needed to pay back investors with this seemingly adopted planned absolescene policy. And EVO (which has always existed but perhaps was only later named this way when they hired that guy who made up all those idiotic three letter acronyms) of course is mainly software driven and 'free' but hardware upgrades in some cases are required to support these new EVO functionality.
Anyway I'm done, I'm taking a break from this forum and anything else Devialet related for while.
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