From what I've read there is a whole encryption chain from the player
up to and including the output device (known as HDCP). So if your TV
doesn't support DRM or your player software or whatever you get a
downsampled version of the video or no video at all. This is rather
onerous and Apple has rejected the scheme so far. Windows Vista has
embraced it so it must be bad. I've also read that the BlueRay
encryption, like DVD encryption, was very weak and is already cracked.
Also like DVDs, in the US at least, the mere act of breaking the
encryption is illegal so avoiding all the silliness is not possible
without breaking the law. Apple is probably banking that digital
download via iTunes (or NetFlix or BlockBuster) will be the new delivery
platform of choice and this whole bits on a disk with DRM distribution
channel can just die under the weight of its own torturous red tape.
Some links for your enjoyment:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/blu-ray_drm_cracked/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081030/1954252694.shtml
CB
Jacob Schmude wrote:
Not as stock, and I'm not sure if there are any blue ray players for
OS X at the moment. You could use an external drive, but you'd still
need a program capable of decrypting and playing the video. Apple
isn't embrasing blue ray yet, and I don't blame them for holding out
at the moment. You're not going to find any open source blue ray movie
players yet either, as the DRM and encryption hasn't yet been
cracked... and blue ray sure has a lot of DRM, I'd venture to say a
ridiculous amount though not all movies use all of it.
There are some blue ray burners that are OS X compatible though
they're not cheap, but as far as I know there's no way to actually
play a blue ray movie.
On Dec 5, 2008, at 18:13, Will Lomas wrote:
hi can the macbooks play blueray dvd's
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