First Sony Blu-Ray Recorder Won’t Play Protected Blu-Ray Movies

[T2k]

PS: HD-DVD is the same disc as the DVD disc, with 0.6mm thick protective layer. It's not good but we know DVDs are not that horrible but Blu-Ray discs have only 0.1mm cover layer. That's scary...

 

[cbearnm]

That's why, the little I have seen of BluRay as a storage media, the disks have always been handled in cassettes. Even then, they still have an unacceptable rate of errors.
With a protective layer that thin, even cassette handling is dangerous. I have to agree, tape is much more reliable, regardless of cost or storage space. Lost bytes means bad news.
(On the PS3 front, I found it hysterical that a Game Informer article was praising the Connect Network for it's lag free play. It better be lag free at this point, there are only a couple hundred development systems out there. If the network were lagging already, Sony is in for huge problems. It's kind of like saying Vista is going to be great, because I have not had one crash yet. (Of course, I'm not running it, but why should that matter?))

 

[beatboy77]

Actually the drive in question can play commercial Blu-ray discs. It was only a software issue, not a hardware issue. A couple of guys over at AVS Forums have successfully got their Sony drives to work and have posted pictures to prove it. They just needed the most updated WinDVD software. Here's the thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=706739&page=1&pp=30

~Josh