Here’s why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware

From theregister.com

Analysis Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working.

In the days that followed, complaints about devices caught in an endless startup boot loop began to appear on various internet discussion boards, and videos documenting the device failure appeared on YouTube.

To fix the issue, Samsung eventually advised customers to return their inoperable video players for repairs. There is no software fix.

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