A CNet article from Austrailia explains that PC Blu-Ray drives aren’t able to play Blu-Ray movies released by studios as there aren’t PC video cards or chipsets capable of handling HDCP.
Not good.
Now – Boing Boing and Slashdot appear to have made the inference that the PS3 won’t be able to play them either. Spurious speculation? Or another nail in Sony’s coffin?
08/13/2006 @ 6:57 pm
Well, doesn’t matter anyways, because I am going to upgrade to an all HD media, including a Blu-ray/HD DVD player.Well, but I am holding off on the movies for a year or so, until they loosen up the copy restrictions on that disc. I can’t stand not being able to copy my movies to the iPod video or backing it up to a secure server.I think that we also need laws as well to protect the enviornment, like preventing content providers from pressing content onto discs. Eventually, I will make the move to a disc-free enviornment. By the way, even though the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, they are quickly going to be obsolete in about 5 years or so.