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Avatar - Blu Ray Problems

  • 24-04-2010 12:50am
    #1
    Mr McBoatface
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    Hi Folks,

    For those of you interested I thought I'd let you know there seems to be major problems being experienced by customers world wide whom have bought or rented Avatar on Blu Ray. I rented it myself yesterday (Friday morning) from Extra-vision and found I was unable to play it on my HTPC Blu ray player using Arcsoft Total Media Theatre 3.

    It's seems to be affecting all Blu Ray regions. See some user comments on amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Will-play-many-Ray-players/forum/Fx2NBHP9W1IZXFF/Tx2KGMUN91X6WP0/2?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B002HEXVSK

    Apparently Fox Studio's decided to introduced a new DRM copy protection with this title and it seems many of the current Blu Ray players even those that are up to date with the latest firmware can't play it. The good old playstation seem to be playing fine providing it's got the latest update.

    The new copy protection apparently 6 months in the making was introduced to prevent illegal coping, however according to the developer of a certain copy protection bypass software one or more of the US version of the disk have been cracked 24 hour before Avator was released. Another well know software that can by-pass copy protection is also reporting success on some US versions of the disks. As a result there are now HD copies of Avatar available for illegal download while 1000's of legal paying customers who just want to see the movies at home in High Def are left waiting for Blu Ray player manufacturers to issue firmware updates.

    It seems like a right mess. It might be a title to avoid for a couple of weeks until updates are issued.
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