Never good to have shots in the leg when your fighting a HD format war... esp on expensive hardware...
Blu-Ray DRM stuffs up play back
They never learn
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 05 October 2007, 9:15 AM
TWO Blu-ray versions of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and Day After Tomorrow flicks, which were released last week, have playback problems caused by their DRM.
According to highdefdigest.com, the DRM on the disks, from Fox Home Entertainment, does not like some players.
Samsung's BDP-1200 and LG's BH100 cannot play the disks at all while the BDP-1000 give error messages and playback stutter.
The same disks play fine on all other Blu-ray players, including the PlayStation 3, although users have reported lengthy load times of up to two minutes.
At the heart of the problem is the BD+ copy protection that the two disks use.
Samsung is issuing a firmware update within "a couple" weeks and LG said an update is expected in 3-4 days. µ
