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New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony — specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness — have some kind of 'feature' that makes them unplayable on many DVD players. This doesn't appear to be covered by the major media yet, but this link to a discussion over at Amazon gives a flavor of the problems people are experiencing. A blogger called Sony and was told the problem is with the new copy protection scheme, and they do not intend to fix it. Sony says it's up to the manufacturers to update their hardware."
Nothing new to see here people, keep moving...
Now I can't make fun of Microsoft for having HD-DVDs that don't play on the Xbox 360.
...upon a time i believed in a fairy tale. it was called "standardization and customer satisfaction".
thanks, sony, for transporting me to the real world.
It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony -- specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness -- have some kind of 'feature' that makes them unplayable on many DVD players.
Yeah, that's the copy protection feature. Hollywood finally figured out that if you can view it, you can copy it. If they simply make the content unplayable, nobody can pirate the movie!
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
Yes, well, in the U.S. at least we'll probably have to wait until we can get in that new President and Congress we ordered. The current ones are malfunctioning and in need of replacement.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
You've got a girlfriend?
Stranger than fiction, indeed!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Funny, it didn't seem to take longer...
Just draw a line around the perimeter of Washington DC with a magic marker. That'll fix it.
Ive got casino royale and having read this decided to try it on all the dvd players in my house (i live in a student house of computer scientists and engineers) so having tried it on going on for a dozen different players, the only player ive found that wont play it is a... guess which manufacturer (for those who dont want to play, its sony)
Blazing Spiders
Would that be the blast radius? If so, you forgot step 2.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
This is all a part of the Sony Customer Rage Assurance Program
Sony CRAP, for short
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
It shouldn't be that hard to undo ARCCOS: just run it through COS!
One of my roommates bought Casino Royale. To test it, I just grabbed it and ripped it in DVDFab Decrypter (XP inside of VMWare, with a Linux host). It ripped perfectly, including all extras.
Just out of spite I went ahead and ran DVD Shrink on the rip. I'll probably burn a few copies and leave them various places on my way to work tomorrow.
The SCOny version of UNIX would come with the rootkits preinstalled.
Global warming? Won't somebody, please, blame the children?
I drink to make other people interesting!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?