Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray 378
An anonymous reader writes "The first two Blu-ray releases to hit the market encrypted with BD+ (an extra layer of protection designed to stave off hackers) are wreaking havoc on innocent consumers. As High-Def Digest reports, this week's Blu-ray releases of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' won't play back at all on at least two Blu-ray players, while load times on other players (including the PS3) are delayed by up to two minutes. 'The most severe problems have been reported on Samsung's BDP-1200 and LG's BH100, which are both said to be incapable of playing back the discs at all. Less catastrophic issues (error messages and playback stutter) have been reported for Samsung's BDP-1000. The discs appear to play back fine on all other Blu-ray players ... Calls placed to both Samsung and LG customer support revealed that both manufacturers are aware of the issue, and that both are working on firmware updates to correct it. Samsung promised a firmware update within 'a couple' weeks, while LG said an update is expected in 3-4 days.'"
Well (Score:5, Funny)
Only the RIAA could match this stupidity (Score:5, Funny)
This just in (Score:5, Funny)
Intelligent chip! (Score:5, Funny)
This is a problem? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:hollywood's perfect anti-theft technique (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This just in (Score:5, Funny)
The First Step... (Score:2, Funny)
Only a two minute wait? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Only the RIAA could match this stupidity (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Couldn't a hacker... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:this is really turning me away from HD movies (Score:2, Funny)
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Its A Feature! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's the real test (Score:3, Funny)
All in favor of calling a moratorium on cracking BD+ say "aye"! If we convince the studios that BD+ is better, we'll end the "format wars" a lot quicker. Once we only have one viable format, we can always end the moratorium.
Ding.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:hollywood's perfect anti-theft technique (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory -- offtopic (Score:0, Funny)
No, I suspect your iPod was "bound" to your iTunes on your computer. Your iPod has no way to know you'r married to the person on the other computer (or possibly the same person if you bound one to your work computer and one to your home computer). What you are asking for therefor is "Why can't I plug my iPod into anyone's computer and copy all their music to my iPod?". I have three iPods on my iTunes w/o a hiccup, two for me an my girlfriends shuffle. Never had an issue.
If I take a CD and I stick into my computer, it plays. That same CD plays in my truck, on my portable CD player, in my TV's DVD drive, on my various consoles, etc...
Really? You have a magic CD that plays without a CD player? Or are you playing it like a cymbal?
Re:hollywood's perfect anti-theft technique (Score:5, Funny)
Either that or there was no room left on the disc. ;-)