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Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray

Posted by Zonk on from the won't-wait-two-minutes-for-a-movie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first two Blu-ray releases to hit the market encrypted with BD+ (an extra layer of protection designed to stave off hackers) are wreaking havoc on innocent consumers. As High-Def Digest reports, this week's Blu-ray releases of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' won't play back at all on at least two Blu-ray players, while load times on other players (including the PS3) are delayed by up to two minutes. 'The most severe problems have been reported on Samsung's BDP-1200 and LG's BH100, which are both said to be incapable of playing back the discs at all. Less catastrophic issues (error messages and playback stutter) have been reported for Samsung's BDP-1000. The discs appear to play back fine on all other Blu-ray players ... Calls placed to both Samsung and LG customer support revealed that both manufacturers are aware of the issue, and that both are working on firmware updates to correct it. Samsung promised a firmware update within 'a couple' weeks, while LG said an update is expected in 3-4 days.'"

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  1. Re:Why firmware updates? by Svenne · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All previous discs played just fine because they weren't encumbered with BD+. Is it really that hard to read the first sentence of the summary?

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  2. Re:Obligatory by robably · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I am a member of the general public and I have *NOT* accepted HD-DVD or Blueray as viable formats.
    You read and post on Slashdot. You are *NOT* a member of the general public.
  3. Re:Obligatory by macdaddy357 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You must be new here. Everytime the dorks and dweebs in mom's basement get mod points, they use them to smack down anyone they disagree with. Moderation here stopped serving any purpose a long time ago. Back to the topic. People affected by this "bug" are probably going to try to return the discs, then be told that there are no returns of opened software. It could get really ugly. Retailer tells customer, "Sorry sucker." Customer pitches fit. Retailer calls cops who take customer to the cornhole corral with Bubba the Bootyhole Buster for "disorderly conduct."

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