First Blu-ray Drives Won't play Blu-ray Movies

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 11, 2006 @08:20AM from the thanks-for-warning-us dept.

aapold writes "Sony officially announced its BWU-100A product at its "Experience More 2006" event in Sydney yesterday, all the while acknowledging that there's significant room for improvement before the product is viable for integration into media centre PCs. Sony's product manager for data storage, told CNET.com.au that due to copy protection issues and lagging software development, the drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not commercial movies released under the BD format." All this hullabaloo makes me want neither side to win. If only I didn't desperately crave HD content on my TV!

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Industrial sabutage by edwardpickman · 2006-08-11 09:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

But won't the player play BD content that has been cracked and then burned onto a BluRay disc in the format that the player will accept?
No but for so bizarre reason it will play HD disks just fine.