Yes, three weeks delay is going to make a major difference in the fight against piracy. That's so totally worth using something that inherently causes problems with legitimate BD players.
The people who need to be thankful only Fox are using BD+ right now are Blu-ray users. Right now the manufacturers only have one dingbat studio using the system and so only need to concern themselves making sure their players play a small number of encumbered discs. Meanwhile, Blu-ray users can avoid Fox or learn to do the firmware dance.
I can't imagine what it's going to be like when there are hundreds of Blu-ray players models out there, and multiple studios using the format. Oh wait, I can: it'll be hell.
The sooner this stupid, inane, doesn't work, impacts only the innocent, access control is removed from the Blu-ray standard, the better.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Yes, three weeks delay is going to make a major difference in the fight against piracy. That's so totally worth using something that inherently causes problems with legitimate BD players.
The people who need to be thankful only Fox are using BD+ right now are Blu-ray users. Right now the manufacturers only have one dingbat studio using the system and so only need to concern themselves making sure their players play a small number of encumbered discs. Meanwhile, Blu-ray users can avoid Fox or learn to do the firmware dance.
I can't imagine what it's going to be like when there are hundreds of Blu-ray players models out there, and multiple studios using the format. Oh wait, I can: it'll be hell.
The sooner this stupid, inane, doesn't work, impacts only the innocent, access control is removed from the Blu-ray standard, the better.