Lately, most trials in the IT world I heard about were related to patents and their use, sometimes to names that were too close to notorious ones, but this time, things look different. Samsung hasn/t been sued for using someone else's technology or name, but for selling a product that won't be able to play some movies, despite any possible software update Samsung may release for it. Pretty nasty, don't you think?


This time, we're not talking about a company that filed the suit, because it's a buyer of Samsung's BD-01200 player, Bob MacGovern, and its reason is the fact that some Blu-ray titles simply won't work on his player, because of a "defective design and/or manufacture".

Launched back in June 2006, the BD-01200 is a Blu-ray player whose hardware is simply incapable of running various titles appeared since then, including "The Day After Tomorrow". To make things worse for Samsung, it seems the 01200 is the only model that faces this problem, and they refused to offer a firmware upgrade to solve this problem (or maybe this firmware upgrade is impossible to have, given the hardware setup?).

Samsung didn't comment on the lawsuit yet, but if you have this defective model, you should know the lawsuit is open to any consumer which purchased the BD-01200 player...