Ron Lowe wrote:
er,. yes indeed.
That will be why I said:

There's currently a new version of BD+ which Slysoft's developers
claim will take a couple of months to crack.

http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=21985



I've got a lot of confidence in thise guys at slysoft.

The arrogance of Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group that BD+
would take 10 years to hack, and was then ( in its then form ) hacked by
slysoft in some weeks was astounding.

Of course, the thing with BD+ is that is's an ever-moving target.

A game of cat-and-mouse.

And as I say, the people who *really* suffer are regular consumers, who
just want their stand-alone players to play the genuine disks they have
bought. Every few months, they will need to upgrade their player
firmware to play the latest releases. Is that acceptable in the
consumer arena?

The techno-classes ( us ) will update our firmware no problem.
The 'bad boys' ( us / not-us ? ) will simply wait a month or 2
occasionally untill slysoft have got if fixed.

This stuff affects the genuine users far more than it inconveniences the
bad guys is by basic point.

Indeed. I always feel that even from the advent of ordinary DVDs the
consumer has been victim of a sophisticated "bait and switch" con.

We were all sold on the convenience of true random access to our films -
no need to wind though bits you don't want to see etc - jump straight in
where you want. Plus loads of "special features". It interesting to see
now the format dominates just haw many controls they try to impose. You
must watch the copyright warnings, the trailers, and any amount of other
crap to get to the main menu even, an the player controls are disabled
until the producer of the disk deems it allowable for you to have the
use of your own player again. Even many of the so called special
features are nothing more than advertising for more of their wares.

(still full credit to Techtronics who chipped the first DVD player I
bought more than a decade ago - it still plays and defeats every attempt
at region coding, or player control restrictions) ;-)

--
Cheers,

John.

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