DrXym: Do you realize how expensive that would be? And BD+ isn't a simple system to produce multiple versions of anyway. You can get away with changing AACS volume keys every 10,000 discs without making it prohibitively expensive, but making different BD+ apps (BD+ works by writing physical software that verifies that its running on an unbroken player) that do not rely upon the same well-known presumptions is astonishingly difficult, if not impossible.
Worse, hacking BD+ that way would undermine Blu-ray even further. It's bad enough to be told "I'm sorry, but 'Hi-def Wars III - Return of the MPEG' doesn't work on the Sony BD09192-2 rev. 3 unless you have firmware versions 1.1-1.3, or 2.2-2.7, though the current version is 2.9", but at least you can find out for certain if it'll play on your player or not. If the disc maker makes several different versions of the BD+ access-control for a single disc, then there's no way to predict what will work on your equipment and what will not.
And again, with all due deference to your corporate masters Engadget: When are you going to tell them, publicly, so they can't ignore it, that BD+ is the showstopper that'll destroy Blu-ray? When are you going to stop whoring yourselves to WB by not warning your readers, many of whom are too stupid to think past "Whoah! Any criticism of Blu-ray is an HD DVD/Toshiba/Microsoft/{Insert other unlikely protagonist here} plot. Blu-ray won. It must be perfect" that, in its current form, this technology can and will result in them being repeatedly ripped off.
The joke here is this article: Blu-ray will, unless BD+ is dropped, be killed by an anti-piracy system that punishes legitimate customers. Meanwhile, those legitimate customers can solve their problems by either buying a tool designed to circumvent the anti-piracy system, or they can *download the movie over the Internet from someone who already bought the tool*.
Why is this happening? Why is Hollywood that stupid? And will Engadget not take a stand on it when the ultimate result will be just as damaging to WB as it will be to their (less informed, more fanboi-ish) readers?
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DrXym: Do you realize how expensive that would be? And BD+ isn't a simple system to produce multiple versions of anyway. You can get away with changing AACS volume keys every 10,000 discs without making it prohibitively expensive, but making different BD+ apps (BD+ works by writing physical software that verifies that its running on an unbroken player) that do not rely upon the same well-known presumptions is astonishingly difficult, if not impossible.
Worse, hacking BD+ that way would undermine Blu-ray even further. It's bad enough to be told "I'm sorry, but 'Hi-def Wars III - Return of the MPEG' doesn't work on the Sony BD09192-2 rev. 3 unless you have firmware versions 1.1-1.3, or 2.2-2.7, though the current version is 2.9", but at least you can find out for certain if it'll play on your player or not. If the disc maker makes several different versions of the BD+ access-control for a single disc, then there's no way to predict what will work on your equipment and what will not.
And again, with all due deference to your corporate masters Engadget: When are you going to tell them, publicly, so they can't ignore it, that BD+ is the showstopper that'll destroy Blu-ray? When are you going to stop whoring yourselves to WB by not warning your readers, many of whom are too stupid to think past "Whoah! Any criticism of Blu-ray is an HD DVD/Toshiba/Microsoft/{Insert other unlikely protagonist here} plot. Blu-ray won. It must be perfect" that, in its current form, this technology can and will result in them being repeatedly ripped off.
The joke here is this article: Blu-ray will, unless BD+ is dropped, be killed by an anti-piracy system that punishes legitimate customers. Meanwhile, those legitimate customers can solve their problems by either buying a tool designed to circumvent the anti-piracy system, or they can *download the movie over the Internet from someone who already bought the tool*.
Why is this happening? Why is Hollywood that stupid? And will Engadget not take a stand on it when the ultimate result will be just as damaging to WB as it will be to their (less informed, more fanboi-ish) readers?