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New DRM Scheme To Make Current DVD Players Obsolete

Posted by michael on from the happy-happy-joy-joy dept.

Oneflower writes "ExtremeTech reports that a proposed new DRM scheme could make current DVD players obsolete. The scheme, from Hewlett-Packard and Philips, targets DVD+R and DVD+RW and is an attempt to enforce the FCC broadcast flag on DVD recorders."

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  1. Re:So? by OECD · · Score: 4, Informative

    And a hack will be made, a firmware update released and in the end we will be back to what we are doing today.

    Weird thing is, they seem to acknowledge that:

    From TFA: "In large part, the issue with the new players will solve itself," said Chris Buma, an A/V program manager with Philips Consumer Electronics, at a press conference held by the DVD+RW Alliance here. "It is a restriction, but a restriction that can be overcome."

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  2. Nothing to do with players .... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative
    This is never going to happen, no one is going to go and buy a new DVD player for some new crappy wannabe-standard. They'll try it and fail, next please!


    Actually, from R'ing TFA, the article headline is very misleading. This will not make any change to current DVD players. It makes changes to make the recorders obey the evil bit/broadcast flag.

    The fact that they expect the media and the players to cost more once this is in place (so Hitachi can get their royalties of course) is going to slow adoption of this.

    Cheers

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  3. Huh? The +R format is compatible BY DESIGN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    DVD-R is the preferred recordable DVD flavor for movies these days. It's cheaper than +R and more compatible with DVD players.

    ROFL. Slashdot man speaks with forked tongue.

    DVD+R was designed specifically to have a format that is compatible with the DVD-movie standard. In other words, a DVD movie player doesn't even need to know about DVD+R to be able to play movies written to a DVD+R disk. It's hard to get more compatible than that, and I'm proving the compatibility daily on my antique DVD movie-only players.

    No other DVD format is compatible with DVD movie in this way. All the other formats require the player to have been programmed explicitly to handle them.