I think you're confusing AACS and HDCP. HDCP is the output technology which isn't required to play back a movie. What is required is AACS decryption since the movie is AACS protected. To do this you need to have the drive to support AACS and the player software to also support AACS. While WinDVD does support AACS and Cyberlink will soon it really doesn't matter since this BD drive doesn't support AACS so as the sony rep points out it can only run home authored (i.e. no AACS) BD discs. So you'll never be able to run BD movies on this drive.
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I think you're confusing AACS and HDCP. HDCP is the output technology which isn't required to play back a movie. What is required is AACS decryption since the movie is AACS protected. To do this you need to have the drive to support AACS and the player software to also support AACS. While WinDVD does support AACS and Cyberlink will soon it really doesn't matter since this BD drive doesn't support AACS so as the sony rep points out it can only run home authored (i.e. no AACS) BD discs. So you'll never be able to run BD movies on this drive.