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"Smart" Blu-Ray devices will report hacks
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Caffeinated Theme Master  Join Date: Nov 1999
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Just don't buy an internet-enabled player, no? (WTF kinda good would that do anyway?)
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Location: Six feet under and diggin' it.
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There's always a way to screw the man. Someone will figure it out.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Since it's a physical product, it may well be illegal for a company to disallow you to tinker with it.
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Originally Posted by tooki
Since it's a physical product, it may well be illegal for a company to disallow you to tinker with it.
tooki
Microsoft must've missed that memo.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
The studios haven't decided on whether to continue using region coding yet.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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That's fine - they don't need my business then. By the time this stuff catches on anyway, there will be something to overcome this.
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They'll never learn, will they? They can't win. 
Anyway, I'll never have my DVD player hooked up to the Internet. Nor my TV, nor my fridge, unless I have a need for it firstly, and secondly, as much control as I do over my PCs.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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So?
They'll never make these things *require* an Internet connection - there are way too many people without one who would still want to watch movies. They'd be eliminating half of their market.
It will only be a matter of time until it is cracked anway, and until then, there is always good old analog for recording. Maybe not perfect quality, but good enough for 99% of purposes.
They'd do better to stop dumping all their moeny into useless copy protection stuff that is sure to be cracked anyway and focus on making content that people want to buy.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally Posted by Scifience
So?
It will only be a matter of time until it is cracked anway, and until then, there is always good old analog for recording. Maybe not perfect quality, but good enough for 99% of purposes.
I thought I read somewhere that the studios are trying to push for HDMI only on the HD players because of this.... Basically they would put a bit in the stream to tell the receiving equipment to not allow recording. This would leave me out of having a player since my TV only has component inputs. I sure hope not.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Regional coding is a joke. It serves no purpose but to hinder those who have legitamate reasons to break it.
Dump it for HD. It's a waste of effort.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally Posted by nerd
I thought I read somewhere that the studios are trying to push for HDMI only on the HD players because of this.... Basically they would put a bit in the stream to tell the receiving equipment to not allow recording. This would leave me out of having a player since my TV only has component inputs. I sure hope not.
The studios, maybe. But I don't think Toshiba and Sony would be dumb enough to prohibit the early adopters (who are their life blood, in many senses) from purchasing their products.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Scifience
They'll never make these things *require* an Internet connection - there are way too many people without one who would still want to watch movies. They'd be eliminating half of their market.
They could make it require either a phone line or internet connection. I wouldn't be surprised to see that. DirecTV and Dish Network already require that to get service thru them.
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