BLU-RAY! I have been doing a lot of complaining lately about the lack of Blu-Ray playback on Mac OS X. If I want to watch a BD on a computer, I would have to install Microsoft Windows, and that isn’t something I’m willing to do. That said, I do have a friend who has a Windows computer with a Blu-Ray player. I was over at his house, and we decided to watch a movie. No luck.
Turns out, the software that came with his drive has had its AACS keys revoked. In essence, that means that the software will no longer play back commercial BDs. When we went to try to update the software, we found that we can only accomplish that by buying the latest version in the $90 range. Very unfortunate.
When Steve Jobs called Blu-Ray a “Bag of hurt,” he wasn’t joking. The draconian DRM scheme that they have implemented is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe it would be better for us Mac users to skip over this technology completely, and just stick to downloading video.
Photo Credit: Tom (hmm a rosa tint)
October 30th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Ya. Physical media is dying. The digital (file) copy is the future. Videophiles should not have to worry either. I’m sure that Dolby is working on embedding surround into these movies.
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October 30th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
The technology is already in place to have surround sound audio in h.264 files. It just has to be implemented. :-)
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February 27th, 2010 at 4:57 am
Thanks for the helpful post, i’ll keep checking back and hopefully i shall see more of the same. :)
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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