I just received an email from Pioneer stating their firmware is available for open source! So I assume non-elites can possibly have some elite features!

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Open Source Notice Regarding Your Recent Pioneer PDP Firmware Update

This notice is for the purpose of compliance with the terms of a GNU General Public License or Lesser General Public License. It does not relate in any way to the performance of your Pioneer PDP product or of the firmware update you received from Pioneer. You do not need to take any action in response to this email unless you wish to receive a copy of the source code, as described below.

The firmware update you received for your Pioneer PDP product included software code for the Linux operating system, BusyBox, and other components licensed for use based on the terms of a GNU General Public License or Lesser General Public License. You may obtain a machine readable copy of the corresponding source code for the cost of distribution by contacting Pioneer's Customer Service Center (in the U.S., 1-800-421-1404). Pioneer service representatives are available Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), except on holidays. Details of the GNU GPL and LGPL can be found at the GNU website (http://www.gnu.org).

I received this too.

I just received an email from Pioneer stating their firmware is available for open source! So I assume non-elites can possibly have some elite features!

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Open Source Notice Regarding Your Recent Pioneer PDP Firmware Update

This notice is for the purpose of compliance with the terms of a GNU General Public License or Lesser General Public License. It does not relate in any way to the performance of your Pioneer PDP product or of the firmware update you received from Pioneer. You do not need to take any action in response to this email unless you wish to receive a copy of the source code, as described below.

The firmware update you received for your Pioneer PDP product included software code for the Linux operating system, BusyBox, and other components licensed for use based on the terms of a GNU General Public License or Lesser General Public License. You may obtain a machine readable copy of the corresponding source code for the cost of distribution by contacting Pioneer's Customer Service Center (in the U.S., 1-800-421-1404). Pioneer service representatives are available Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), except on holidays. Details of the GNU GPL and LGPL can be found at the GNU website (http://www.gnu.org).

It is only because part of the firmware is built from Linux and BusyBox which is open source. Because certain sections of the Pioneer firmware are based on open source code in order for Pioneer to use them they are required to release those parts as open source. (http://www.busybox.net/license.html) The GNU Public License basically says "you can use and edit our code freely but whatever you use and edit must remain free and be release as open source.

It is only part of the Pioneer firmware that is released as open source. Believe me, Pioneer is not giving out the recipe for the secret sauce for free here.

Well it's not clear how much or little that will include. Granted it won't include all the fancy processing, but in terms of menu adjustments and things like that, if people can make FW dumps they could possibly open up more customization of their displays (similar to like the patch). I am somewhat skeptical though how much actually will be released since as you say they are probably releasing the parts they're required to release and nothing more.

I know this is an old thread, but the open source links on their website are all broken (bluray, anyhow). So much for releasing the source code...

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/downloads/Linux/Downloads-Bluray.html