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First Blu-ray Drives Won't play Blu-ray Movies
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!
That's gonna take the market by storm for sure.
"Nothing to see here"
Yeah, I think that sums up the latest blu-ray problem
Is today April 1? Did I miss a memo?
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
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?
Where were you when the voynix came?
a future root kit developed by Sony is expected to fix this problem.
rumors say that the first Blu-ray player won't even have a laser, because they want to introduce the technology gradually.
Sony Electronics: Well, we're ready to sell the first Blu-Ray players, but there's this little unfinished DRM issue preventing us from getting started before HD-DVD makes any headway.
Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sorry, we need our DRM.
Sony Electronics: We could be selling these players and achieving market dominance, though.
Sony Pictures Entertainment: DRM.
Sony Electronics: You could also be selling tons of brand new Blu-Ray discs now.
Sony Pictures Entertainment: Hello? DRM?
Sony Electronics: Our players could be in homes across America and around the world in time for the winter holiday season this year, and you'd be selling high def movies like hotcakes.
Sony Pictures Entertainment: What part of "DRM" don't you understand?
Sony Electronics: Fine, DRM, whatever. I just hope we don't become laughing stocks when we go to Australia this summer.
"Sony also unveiled a 120-inch plasma screen television limited to black-and-white programming; a version of the PlayStation that only plays games toggled in on the front panel in assembler; and the 'BurnMan,' a silicon-over-plexiglass contraption that scans in and verifies $100 bills before slowly igniting them for your viewing pleasure, one at a time."
Thou shalt commit sarcasm
4.5 Blame Pirates.
Demented But Determined.
Corporations should be the ones who decide media specifications and the role of consumers is to choose which corporate offering is best.
When corporations decide for consumers what to choose, that is capitalism, when consumers force corporations to make what consumers really want, that is called communism and America will not tolerate communism!!!
[libertarian parody off]
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
Here's the 56K modem version:
* 10th speed not usable due to FCC momentum regulations
6. PROFIT!
Oh.. wait
The Blueray player can't play offical movies because of the copy protection...only pirated movies. Thats awesome.