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!

Comments

So much for Sony in the coming format war!

[Mycroft_514]

I'll sit on the sidelines a while and wait, thank you.

And it won't WHAT???

[himurabattousai]

So, you're telling me that the biggest reason to buy the player--to watch the movies on discs that offer something supposedly better than the DVD experience--doesn't even apply??? Hold on one second...

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I couldn't make "stuff" up as unintentionally hilarious as this. Seriously....