http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/ Engadget Comments for Blu-ray gets Managed Copy next year, requires new hardware http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/1. internet connectivity
2. processing power
3. storage for copies (several GB) - hard drive, flash memory, etc
4. ability to transfer to external device

What it will not be able to do is burn a DVD or Blu-ray.]]>Jun 12th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/If you believe that the PS3 is no different than any other stand alone, you really need to do some homework.
The PS3 is a full blown computer with a CPU and GPU with more harddisk space and memory than any other non-PC built rig. The extra disk space doen't mean it can only store more content but it can also include new software to accomplish new tasks. Why do you think the PS3 is the most popular Blu-Ray player even among non-gamers?...Its because its more capable of being able to include new Blu-Ray features that other standalone players can't.]]>Jun 15th 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
The studios are afraid of Linux simply because those users demand that they be able to see the source code for anything and everything they run on their computer. Giving away the source code to allow reverse engineering and easier hacking of the format is against what AACS is about. So they are out.

Sony does not care, because they are happy to sell you a Blu-Ray player, and they do care buecause they are a studio and want to keep everything protected.

The only DRM format left is Microsoft's. Do you not think that the BDA would love to have support for iTunes? Apple loves to talk about how pervasive their ecosystem is, and how it is beating the competition. Microsoft is not even part of the BDA, they were advocating the competition to Blu-Ray so you would think that the BDA would want to reward their members first. But when there are no other choices - not because Microsoft is forcing no other choices, but the competition refuses to participate - it is not Microsoft's fault.

To use the all too common car anology, if Porsche were to start complaining about Toyota having an unfair majority of the hybrid car market when Porsche refuses to participate and build a hybrid, their claims are invalid. If Apple refuses to participate, any claims that Microsoft is forcing their monopoly on the market is invalid.]]>Jun 12th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
$250-500 for a player maybe change to them but it was a big investment for me.]]>Jun 12th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/]]>Jun 12th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/]]>Jun 12th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Look at what they've had to add after the fact to Blu-ray that should have been there from the beginning:

* Managed copy
* Full interactivity
* Second video stream
* Second audio stream
* Local storage
* Internet connectivity

All of these were present with the initial version of HD-DVD, BTW.

Not only that, but the designers have made no provision for aspect ratios other than 4:3 and 16:9. Other formats have to have black bars encoded into the video signal. I don't think they learned anything from DVD. It's ridiculous! These people had absolutely no foresight whatsoever. They should have supported other aspect ratios via anamorphic stretching and/or varying video frame resolutions.

Three years after the public availability of players and they are STILL making changes to the standard. Incredible.
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On the PS3 front, I suspect Managed Copy will be used to make a copy to the hard drive and/or perhaps a downscaled copy to the PSP. I'm wondering if charges will be invovled at some point, and or what restrictions may come up with utilizing the copy.]]>Jun 12th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
That's really the major difference. HD DVD said "Mandatory from day 1", Blu-ray said "We will make it mandatory, one day, but not yet."

The major issue is that Sony's myopism on the issue (and HD DVD's death) means MC is already dead. There's little incentive to buy a BD player that supports MC if your existing library doesn't work with it.

My prediction: MC isn't going to be used by anyone. Blu-ray "enthusiasts" will claim that nobody ever wanted it, and thus Blu-ray never needed to have it, and that was more evidence that HD DVD sucks and, and, and, yadayadayada, but in actuality it will fail because it's been set up to fail. Studios will point at its unpopularity and probably use it to claim that nobody is really interested in "fair use", and meanwhile shuffling plastic discs around will continue to seem like an antiquated way of watching movies.
]]>Jun 13th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/09/5355.ars

HD DVD did support Managed Copy from the beginning just that hardware didn't have it integrated. As you mentioned, addition of it wouldn't require any new purchases.

We are now actually seeing how bad and unfinished Blu-ray is as a format. I'm sure that BDA and CEs are laughing all the way to the bank for ripping consumers. Each new features or expansion of the format requiring purchasing of new hardware is BAD and should be criticized heavily. This is not a small thing. I'm not going to buy new players for this. It's ridiculous and again shows what a mess of a format Blu-ray is.]]>Jun 13th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Managed Copy was the cited reason that Microsoft and Intel backed HD-DVD over Blu-ray. They believed that consumers would want that feature.

HD-DVD, aside from its lower capacity, was much better designed than Blu-ray. Its design was complete when it went public, which has not been the case with Blu-ray, as we've now seen four different versions of it since it came out. As we've seen in format wars before, it often isn't the best format that wins out.
]]>Jun 13th 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/For someone who can't read you sure can't write well.

If you could read I'm sure you would've noticed that AACS was just finalized recently and it DOES include mandatory Managed Copy -- hence the point of this post.

Face it, HD DVD never supported Managed Copy, because like Blu-ray, it was waiting for AACS to be finalized.

The entire Intel vs Microsoft move ended up helping us as here we are years later and mandatory Managed Copy is a reality. ]]>Jun 13th 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
"Previously, HP supported the Blu-ray Disc format exclusively. The company had requested the Blu-ray Disc Association adopt two customer-friendly technologies, Mandatory Managed Copy and iHD, which are already included in the HD-DVD format."

gizmodo.com/gadgets/strange-but-true/legal-copying-of-hd-dvd-and-blu+ray-discs-huh-263313.php

"One studio said it's hoping this Managed Copy system will be in place for the 2007 holiday season. Meanwhile, the HD DVD Promotional Group added that ****Managed Copy will be backward compatible HD DVDs****, while it won't be on Blu-ray discs. No matter what, there will still be DRM slathered all over both formats."

blog.seanalexander.com/PermaLink,guid,6a55c911-1906-42e2-924f-8f43812fbe78.aspx (summarizing a MS/Intel announcement):

"Managed Copy – A First for DVDs: Managed Copy is a guaranteed feature within HD DVD that gives consumers the freedom to make copies of their discs to a hard drive or home server, including Media Center PCs, and enjoy them in every room of the house over their home networks. HD DVD discs also will allow copies of the movie to be played on portable devices."

www.hometheatermag.com/news/060107managedcopy/

"Managed copy is mandatory in HD DVD and optional in Blu-ray. That means the spec, when finalized, would work retroactively for all HD DVD discs in circulation. In Blu-ray the implementation would be more selective. In either case, whether (and how) the feature would actually be used would be decided by the studios on a title-by-title basis."

www.pcpro.co.uk/news/78287/intel-explains-hd-dvd-decision.html

"'The reason we provided support for HD-DVD is that basically it has committed to several features. Specifically, the mandatory managed copy,' said Donald McDonald, vice president and general manager of Intel's digital home group."

www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6899.cfm

"The HD-DVD camp has already committed to this feature in the upcoming format developed by Toshiba. "

I relent on the feature being removed from AACS final spec (several documents I found on the Internet erroneously stated that this was the reason it never came to fruition on HD-DVD), but my initial point that the HD-DVD camp was commited to Managed Copy from the beginning remains.
]]>Jun 14th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://smc.universalhomentertainment.com. There was no infrastructure, nothing. The HD DVD spec might have said to include some file but that was as close as it ever got to reality. None of this stuff was ever tested. I haven't looked at blu ray disks for their MC settings, but I suspect the situation is the same there too.

It's highly unlikely that existing disks would have "just worked" if ever managed copy were actually implemented. Even if by some miracle all the settings were correct in every detail disks still wouldn't work unless each studio implemented the necessary infrastructure (Universal, WB, Dreamworks etc). I can well see some studios not bothering, or taking years, or piling some kind of purchase system over the top of it.

So really the claim that HD DVD always had managed copy is pointless and beside the point. I expect the same holds for Blu by the way. Eventually some infrastructure might turn up but it will be spotty. Managed copy will also demonstrate how largely irrelevant it is for most users since managed copies are the same size as the originals which might be great for minority of people who play media from multiple Tb servers but not much use for the remainder.]]>Jun 14th 2009 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/]]>Jun 14th 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/All those quotes are regurgitated FUD from HD DVD's PR department.

The FACT is that NOT ONE legal copy of an HD DVD was ever made via Managed Copy.

Now as whether existing HD DVD discs would be copyable now that AACS is finalized, we'll never know will we because the format failed to survive.

Actually I don't think we've received confirmation one way or another regarding existing Blu-ray titles, all we know is that existing player won't do it. But then again most of players don't have burners or the facility to copy the contents of the disc over the network either. ]]>Jun 14th 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
The fact remains that HD-DVD was better planned than Blu-ray. Otherwise we wouldn't have the fourth revision of BR coming to fix omissions from the original version of the format. Every HD-DVD disc that ever came out was under the same spec. Every player was produced under the same spec. It didn't take three years after its public release to get closer to the features that it should have had from the beginning, breaking compatibility with older players in the process. And even with that BR still doesn't offer everything that HD-DVD did... combo discs, region free discs, for example. Blu-ray won out because it caters to content owners, not consumers. I don't think we have ever seen a more consumer unfriendly format.]]>Jun 14th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/I'll enjoy my evolving Blu-Rays and take my PS3 firmware updates to accommodate them while I just enjoy good HD movie watching.
Arguing over HD-DVD now is such a waste of time no matter what side of the fence you were on back in the format war.
Its over and done with, move on and buy Blu if you want HD on media, buy DVD if you hate Blu or get your downloads if you don't want HD in media form.
Its all a matter of preference, but HD-DVD is no longer an option outside of the existing inventory and its not coming back.
]]>Jun 15th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/When I said media, I meant optical media as in something tangible.
]]>Jun 15th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
I'm just saying that BR wasn't as well thought out as it could have been.
]]>Jun 15th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Had the designers of DVDs had the same forethought, it could have continued as a standard well into the HD cycle.

]]>Aug 14th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Imagine the confusion and frustration in the following hypothetical scenario: John Doe buys a disc in 2009 for a DVD player he purchased in 2005. But it won't play because his DVD player and the disc he purchased was designed for a different version of the DVD specification. Why not? They're both DVD, right? He calls the player manufacturer, and gets a boilerplate "Oh, I'm sorry, your version 4.5 DVD player doesn't play version 6.0 discs. You'll need to buy a newer DVD player" answer. Poor John thought that DVDs were DVDs were DVDs. To avoid further confusion he cuts way back on his purchase of movies, because they might not work in his player.

For people who read sites like engadget daily, we might know about different versions of specs and what they represent. But 99% of the population doesn't know, and doesn't care. Consumers expect that when they buy a DVD, Blu-ray disc, whatever, that it will work in the DVD player or Blu-ray disc player that they have. The name is the same, right? If the name is the same the expectation is that it will work, and work as designed.

Long-term standardization is our friend. It allows formats to catch on in the long run, and ensures that customers have a frustration-free experience.
]]>Aug 15th 2009 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Isn't it strange that something that can be accomplished today with AnyDVD HD and three mouse clicks, will need the processing power of Skynet when The Industry wants to throw DRM into the mix?

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Now I suspose you could transfer a managed copy to a hard disk on a blu-ray player, and watch the movie without disc, but it's unclear how many times you can use the managed copy (does anyone know yet?), and why would you wait to transfer the movie when you can simply play it immediately on disc if you using a device that has blu-ray? ---I guess if noise was an issue.

Seems to me managed copy is paving the way for the inevitable digital distribution of the movie. If you can make a managed copy from disc, why not then, just directly from the internet via the content distributor? It's almost the same concept.]]>Jun 14th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/Jun 12th 2009 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
That more or less rules out a "class break" since every file is unique. Now there could be an exploit in a particular device that allows you to extract the raw data as the managed copy is being created, or as it is being played. But trying to crack the resulting files is probably a complete waste of time.]]>Jun 13th 2009 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
I by a BD disc and all I want is to watch the bloody movie on my home cinema installation.

I could not care less for any "extras" or "managed copies" or any such thing. I am strongly anti-pirate since I do believe it is not fair that people making a good script, book, song, whatever should not get paid for it or that people should just benefit from it without paying.

Anyway, I bought into BD when I thought (hoped) that the players where reasonable stable but if I ever get a disc that wont play, well that disc will be ripped faster than you can say Blu-ray.]]>Jun 13th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
I do it too, but pot/kettle?

That's the whole point. Managed Copy is a version of your movie as a backup so it is a big deal. ]]>Jun 13th 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Most of it was a general statement about extras and additional crap on a disk that I didn't want.

I didn't say that I wanted a backup or anything. I said that if they put fancy crap on a disk that stopped my player from playing it (managed copy or some other "feature") then I would rip it so that I could watch my legally purchased movie.

Has never happened to me yet though...]]>Jun 14th 2009 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Sorry to bust your bubble but making a copy of your "legally purchased" BD is considered illegal according to the MPAA!]]>Jun 14th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
Whow Xeod, it's illegal, thanks for giving me this valuable information.

If you read through my post again you might crasp what I actually wanted to say.

Sigh !!!]]>Jun 14th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/blu-ray-gets-managed-copy-next-year-requries-new-hardware/
It's also worth noting the other side to this news.
They're about to sh*t on the earliest adopter (ie everyone who doesn't have kit compliant with all the DRM incorporated in blu-ray).

Still, "they knew what they were getting into", right?

(it'll do wonders for sales of AnyDVD)

"All new players sold after December 31, 2010 "must limit analog video output of BD content to interlaced standard definition (480i/576i). Then, 2013 is the expiration date for analog video: no player that passes "Decrypted AACS Content" to analog video outputs may be manufactured or sold after December 31, 2013"
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2849



So, how come engadgetHD missed that little gem (surely of more importance to more people)?]]>Jun 14th 2009 11:22AM