The day blue ray DRM is broken (if that is even possible) will be the day I go start buying blue-ray discs and players. I don't mind the extra trouble I had to go through to get my linux system to play DVD's as long as I get to see my movies any any device that ought to be able to play them, then I'm happy. Region locking on DVDs was my intro to DRM, and the foul taste still hasn't left my mouth.
Also, being a DSP nerd, I would like to see the format used to maximum effect to deliver the best video possible. Looking at the stats given on blue-ray movies in store shows that this is not happening. If your going to shove this DRM down my throat at least put in some effort to give me awesome video.
The price sucks, but I would pay if these problems didn't exist.
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The day blue ray DRM is broken (if that is even possible) will be the day I go start buying blue-ray discs and players. I don't mind the extra trouble I had to go through to get my linux system to play DVD's as long as I get to see my movies any any device that ought to be able to play them, then I'm happy. Region locking on DVDs was my intro to DRM, and the foul taste still hasn't left my mouth. Also, being a DSP nerd, I would like to see the format used to maximum effect to deliver the best video possible. Looking at the stats given on blue-ray movies in store shows that this is not happening. If your going to shove this DRM down my throat at least put in some effort to give me awesome video. The price sucks, but I would pay if these problems didn't exist.
The new VLC can decode dirac files, but there is no way to encode in windows. So this wonderful release doesn't do 99% of the world much good.