Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

In a shocking blunder, the first Blu-Ray high definition video disk drives are unable to play Blu-Ray disc movies. This is like making a CD player that can’t play CDs, or rather discs that don’t work in CD players - oddly enough that’s something that IS done these days. Digitally Restricted Media (DRM) prevents many CD players from being able to successfully play new DRM’ed CDs.

…the drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not commercial movies released under the BD format.

The reason Blu-Ray discs are taking so long to come to market, has to be because they implement one version of DRM, then find out it’s easily worked around, so they have to redesign everything. If they made them like simple CDs, it would be better for everyone because high definition discs would be on the market today, and consumers could store gigabytes more data than they do on DVDs.

Sony’s Rootkit DRM CD fiasco of last October, which still isn’t settled in all jurisdictions, shows that DRM is bad for consumers and business. Yet they haven’t learned their lesson and are trying to implement DRM in their BD discs.

“Sony’s product manager for data storage, told CNET.com.au that due to copy protection issues and lagging software development,” that the BD format will either never arrive as promised or will be defective by design.

So please don’t buy Blu-Ray equipment, and if you really want to have a nice digital future, write to Sony and tell them you are boycotting them along with me and thousands more because of their use of DRM.