Personal computing discussed
Flying Fox wrote:All this pretty much re-affirms my plan to buy a standalone player to avoid all the hassles. Granted updating the player may still give me headaches but it seems to be less of a problem in general. And of course, I have my eye on the Sony S590 so I hope the creator of the BR standard should take care of its players?
just brew it! wrote:Well, they *need* to have good support for firmware updates. The content producers want them to update the firmware every time the DRM changes, in an attempt to stay one step ahead of the people who are cracking the DRM. So don't get the mistaken impression that they're doing this for *you*...
Captain Ned wrote:just brew it! wrote:Well, they *need* to have good support for firmware updates. The content producers want them to update the firmware every time the DRM changes, in an attempt to stay one step ahead of the people who are cracking the DRM. So don't get the mistaken impression that they're doing this for *you*...
Oh, I know, but it's nice that the player just does what it needs and doesn't get in the way. It's also a right champ at upscaling DVDs to 1080p.
I'll admit that I'm torn between the old PDP-8 geek and "information must be free" and the modern lazy parent "do I want to futz with this for 2 hours to watch a 90 minute movie" viewpoints. Modern lazy parent is pulling away on the backstretch and coming down the homestretch like a thunderous machine.
Catch the quote.
Flying Fox wrote:All this pretty much re-affirms my plan to buy a standalone player to avoid all the hassles. Granted updating the player may still give me headaches but it seems to be less of a problem in general.
Walkintarget wrote:Flying Fox wrote:All this pretty much re-affirms my plan to buy a standalone player to avoid all the hassles. Granted updating the player may still give me headaches but it seems to be less of a problem in general.
I actually am trying to convince myself that I don't NEED a BD in my HTPC .. it would save me at least $120 by forgetting about it entirely. I already have a BD player in another room, but its hooked up to an older 32" SD plasma, wasting the true quality of the BD to begin with.
Any new BD player will come equipped with Cinavia built into it, which I would very much like to avoid .. it does nothing but cause compatibility headaches down the road for any future BD releases. No wonder the older BD players are being bought up at a fast pace.
kamikaziechameleon wrote:End of the day bluray play back on pc is a mess. It is literally easier to legally rip a bluray and view it that way than to straight up play one. Just saying what they are attempting with the technology is sorta self defeating. It's like they want me to rip each and every rental. I would rather not do that but who am I to argue with the law....
Pagey wrote:*sigh* Just so I understand this going forward...a trial piece of software that later requires to be paid in order to decode a Blu-ray disc is off limits on TR?
Pagey wrote:*sigh* Just so I understand this going forward...a trial piece of software that later requires to be paid in order to decode a Blu-ray disc is off limits on TR?
Edit: I see that PowerDVD, which decodes Blu-rays, also offers a 30 day trial. So why can we keep mentioning PowerDVD (which I personally use)?
Pagey wrote:I see. I was not suggesting they use the DVD/Blu-ray ripping portion of the software, which clearly does violate the DMCA. It is/was my understanding that their media player is a stand-alone piece of software for playback ONLY. Perhaps it's not. Perhaps it is bundled with their ripping suite.
Flying Fox wrote:kamikaziechameleon wrote:End of the day bluray play back on pc is a mess. It is literally easier to legally rip a bluray and view it that way than to straight up play one. Just saying what they are attempting with the technology is sorta self defeating. It's like they want me to rip each and every rental. I would rather not do that but who am I to argue with the law....
Assuming you are in the US/EU, which law(s) says that you can "legally rip" a Bluray by circumventing its copy protection?
sjl wrote:Maybe that's his point: given that it's illegal to rip a BD, it's still easier to do so legally than to play it back through legit methods ... (meaning you can't do it either way, but at least you don't have to go to the effort of proving you can't in the first case...)
I cannot comment further without violating Rule 1; all I will say is that Google (and lots of hard disk space) is your friend.
JustAnEngineer wrote:The OEM version of PowerDVD or "Blu-ray suite" is included with many drives.