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[Test] Player feedback [Comments] 
This player gets credit for feedback because it provides at least something to indicate when you are attempting forbidden operations. In fact, most players have a problem with error messages. When you cannot perform a certain function (for example, hitting the menu key when the disc is playing), they have one of three messages. (1) "This operation not permitted now”, (2) a circle with a line through it, or (3) nothing at all (this is particularly inexcusable IMHO). The Panasonic player uses the second of these informative messages. I can understand why they use a symbol: it is one less text string that they need to translate for foreign markets. However, it would make the user experience so much smoother to provide a short text string saying why it isn’t available and how to make it available. In this case, a short message like “Please press Stop before pressing the Menu button.”
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