arstechnica.com — After four years in the oven, "managed copy" is done?and boy, is it a stinker. "Managed copy" has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009. Unfortunately, no Blu-ray player yet has the ability to make one......
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3nder99Nov 10, 2009
Blu ray players require updates when the DRM changes, and the firmware on my blu ray drive has been updated twice so far to get new titles to work. Blu Ray simply isn't worth it. I mean its nice and all on my 52 inch Sony Bravia at 1080, but it wasn't worth the added costs and hassle compared to regular old DVD's. At least with those, after a long day at work and dinner, me and my girl can sit down and watch a movie without have to spend 15 minutes finding a random firmware update and download a PowerDVD update on top of it.So not worth the $150 for the drive and $90 to upgrade to surround sound. The f**king software that came with the drive only allows stereo sound, and there are no free players.... So not only are they getting paid by the blu ray drive manufacturer for the bundled software, they are making me buy it all over again to get surround sound which I could get off of my f**king DVD player.
ragecloakNov 10, 2009
right, so instead of releasing them all at the same time, they'd rather punish consumers and force them to pirate if they want to be rid of the ridiculous restrictions
stingwolfNov 10, 2009
It's what happens when you base your entire business model on selling bits.
mweatherNov 10, 2009
You could create a format where DRM is not an option, but what reason would content producers have to use that format when they could continue using Blu-Ray and just not encrypt the content?
mrhainesNov 10, 2009
f**k Optical storage!