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Playback Problems Reported on ‘Silver Surfer,’ ‘Day After Tomorrow’ Blu-ray Discs
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Two of the most eagerly anticipated next-gen releases in recent memory have hit a series of playback snags on select Blu-ray players, but a fix is said to be on the way.
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The most severe problems have been reported on Samsung’s BDP-1200 and LG’s BH100, which are both said to be incapable of playing back the discs at all. Less catastophic issues (error messages and playback stutter) have been reported for Samsung’s BDP-1000. The discs appear to play back fine on all other Blu-ray players (including the PlayStation 3), although users have reported lengthy load times of up to two minutes.
It has been widely speculated that these issues stem from the use of BD+ copy protection on the two discs. We contacted Fox for comment, but so far there’s no official word from the studio.
Why punish the people who actually pay for your product? The only way to suffer from this is if you purchased a copy, the people who are downloading this are free of the pain… It’s like they want you to pirate it. They are creating a system where the only people who have a trouble free experience are the pirates.
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It takes hard work and dedication to get around all the copy protection stuff, so I wouldn’t say it’s trouble free for the pirates themselves, but actually it is trouble free for the pirates’ customers: they get the cheaper and better products at the click of a button.
Oh, and ehm, ‘pirates’ you say? Lemme see: these ‘pirates’ steal from the rich that squeeze out the poor – and then actually give to the poor, at no charge. Sound familiar? So the only question now is: when is King Richard coming home to end this tyranny?!