How stable are kiss products in general?

[Bosse]

Hi,

I have had a DP-558 a week now and I quite like the product and all its features despite some of its flaws. But I am also disappointed of the stability of the product. I would have thought that when you buy a product like this it would have been trough all stages of beta testing and most of the stability bugs were gone. Like you expect when you buy a Sony, Pioneer and other known brands. But this is my first kiss product so I don?t know much of kiss?s reputation and other products ranges. So how stable is other kiss products and do you think that DP-558 will ever get stable? By stable I mean that I can trust that it will record when I want and not frees up for some unknown reason.

Best regards
Bosse

[Lord_Kiron]

Well KiSS product it rather unstable ...
They are good but this is the one of their bigges problems - freezes and other things that usualy start to work correctly after complete powerdown.

But if you look on KiSS devices not as hardware but as software :) they are OK.
Not to mention that KiSS slowly , in pain :) but fixes them one by one in a time.

I have DP-500 more then 2 years now , and my God what a bad shape it was with first firmwares ...
Now it's more or less OK , the only time I have to reboot it now to fix functionality is after playing MP3s by network - if you put it in standby after that and then try to wake - menu is gone :) (fw 2.8.8) .

Also KiSS known to create "funny" situalions - more then once they work hard on firmware , tested it for a long time and then make some last minute fix that brake everything and release with it without testing firs.