Agreed. On the other hand, if I'm reading this correctly, the other copy really is a truly secondary, independent copy which I've read elsewhere will also be possible to burn back to another disc. If that's the case, I can see the studios making the argument that it makes sense to make the copy just as expensive as the disc itself. On the other hand, the market reality will probably mandate either a cheap copy or a cheap disc. I bet studios will go the cheap copy route counting on a decent percentage of the disc buyers never using Managed Copy.
It will be interesting to see how this goes once everyone upgrades their Blu-ray players to support this. Just when you thought Profile 2.0 and advanced audio bitstream capabilities meant you could finally have a feature-complete Blu-ray player....
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Agreed. On the other hand, if I'm reading this correctly, the other copy really is a truly secondary, independent copy which I've read elsewhere will also be possible to burn back to another disc. If that's the case, I can see the studios making the argument that it makes sense to make the copy just as expensive as the disc itself. On the other hand, the market reality will probably mandate either a cheap copy or a cheap disc. I bet studios will go the cheap copy route counting on a decent percentage of the disc buyers never using Managed Copy.
It will be interesting to see how this goes once everyone upgrades their Blu-ray players to support this. Just when you thought Profile 2.0 and advanced audio bitstream capabilities meant you could finally have a feature-complete Blu-ray player....