Blue Ray

[andrewstx]

I bought a blue ray player sound system a few years ago. At first I was very happy with it, but recently I have been disappointed. The newer dvds in blue ray refuse to play they just spin around a few times and then the player spits them out.

It seems they re-do the blueray standards periodically with out notice, and if you don’t have a computer connected to your player you either have to buy a new up dated player or you are just out of luck.

Had I known all of that I would not have bought the expensive thing to begin with. So I can view my older blueray disks and lose the better resolution on newer disks.

 

[yellowantphil]

That’s why I refuse to buy a blu-ray player. The new discs don’t have better resolution than the old ones though. I think your player’s decryption key has been revoked. The Powers that Be ship blu-ray discs with a list of encryption keys that they’ll accept, and if one of the keys gets loose so that people can watch movies without authorized hardware, they revoke that key.

If you have some way of letting your blu-ray player phone home, it will probably request a new key and I think you’ll be able to use it again. I imagine you’d have to plug in an Ethernet cable to your player and let it get on the Internet, but maybe it uses a phone line—I don’t know.

In other words, the people making blu-ray discs think you’re a criminal trying to bootleg movies, and you have to ask their permission periodically to watch new movies you bought legally on a blu-ray player you bought legally. With the way they treat customers, I’m sticking with DVDs until they don’t make them anymore. After that, I guess I’ll stop watching movies at home.