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Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray 378

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 04, 2007 @03:45PM 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.'"

Comment Re:Another day another break-in (Score 1) 204

by zoryn on Thursday July 19, 2007 @08:38PM (#19921661) Attached to: Sophisticated, Targeted Breakins Uncovered

I know I'm gonna get modded down for this, but I was a usual reader at digg, and ever since I started spending more time on slashdot, I gotta tell you, it's a whole different level. Digg is filled with "Take that sony!", "A kid got killed doing something stupid, humanity wins." one-line-comments; slashdot on the other hand, always has insightful comments, sometimes very interesting debates (I know, I browse only at +3). To me, the most important part of slashdot is the comments section. A lot of useful information, specially on developers articles. Digg basically only shows us the articles.

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