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last thoughts on getting recalcitrant BDs to play...
Thanks to another poster's suggestion, I Googled "Starship Troopers" +
"won't play" and found the solution. It seems that this disk requires proof of citizenship -- I mean a memory card -- to run! I retrieved the little card supplied by Sony, plugged it in, and -- et tu, Viola! -- it plays. Who'da thunk it... |
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last thoughts on getting recalcitrant BDs to play...
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:04:10 -0700, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote: Thanks to another poster's suggestion, I Googled "Starship Troopers" + "won't play" and found the solution. It seems that this disk requires proof of citizenship -- I mean a memory card -- to run! I retrieved the little card supplied by Sony, plugged it in, and -- et tu, Viola! -- it plays. Plug it into where? Is there a smart card slot? A green card slot? This reeks of yet another Sony copy protection scheme. Who'da thunk it... Reality sometimes follows fiction: "U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15immig.html -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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last thoughts on getting recalcitrant BDs to play...
"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
... On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:04:10 -0700, "William Sommerwerck" wrote: Thanks to another poster's suggestion, I Googled "Starship Troopers" + "won't play" and found the solution. It seems that this disk requires proof of citizenship -- I mean a memory card -- to run! I retrieved the little card supplied by Sony, plugged it in, and -- et tu, Viola! -- it plays. Plug it into where? Is there a smart card slot? A green card slot? This reeks of yet another Sony copy protection scheme. There's a memory card slot on the back. It's required for Web access or something. It has no software on it; it's just for storing files. Many BD players have them. It couldn't be used for copy protection because, at the moment, there's no way to copy BD movies. Who'da thunk it... Reality sometimes follows fiction: "U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15immig.html |
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last thoughts on getting recalcitrant BDs to play...
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:15:44 -0700, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote: "Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:04:10 -0700, "William Sommerwerck" wrote: Thanks to another poster's suggestion, I Googled "Starship Troopers" + "won't play" and found the solution. It seems that this disk requires proof of citizenship -- I mean a memory card -- to run! I retrieved the little card supplied by Sony, plugged it in, and -- et tu, Viola! -- it plays. Plug it into where? Is there a smart card slot? A green card slot? This reeks of yet another Sony copy protection scheme. There's a memory card slot on the back. It's required for Web access or something. It has no software on it; it's just for storing files. Many BD players have them. On the back? That's rather inconvenient if you have the unit installed in a cabinet or under a pile of similar equipment. I guess you're suppose to leave the card in there. It couldn't be used for copy protection because, at the moment, there's no way to copy BD movies. I hate to tell you this, but a quick Google search for "copy Blue-Ray movies" yielded quite a bit on cracking the encryption and duplicating the content. I don't know anything about it so I have no idea if the various programs actually work. For example: http://www.dvd-cloner.com http://www.opencloner.com/blu-ray_to_dvd.html Copying is apparently sufficiently important to Sony that they devised the memory card slot (dongle) copy protection scheme to reinforce the MMC protected content. Who'da thunk it... Reality sometimes follows fiction: "U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15immig.html I sorta recall that the ancient Romans had a rather serious problem when most of their legions were foreign nationals. Whatever works, but I guess we don't learn much from history. I saw the original Starship Troopers when it first came out. It was ok for the violence, but I don't think I would pay to watch it again. I read the Heinlein story in the 1960's but don't recall anything remarkable about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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last thoughts on getting recalcitrant BDs to play...
Copying is apparently sufficiently important to Sony that they devised
the memory card slot (dongle) copy protection scheme to reinforce the MMC protected content. Well, that's not what it's currently used for. And this particular film seems to be one of a very few with this quirk. I have other Columbia films that don't require it. I sorta recall that the ancient Romans had a rather serious problem when most of their legions were foreign nationals. Whatever works, but I guess we don't learn much from history. I saw the original Starship Troopers when it first came out. It was ok for the violence, but I don't think I would pay to watch it again. I read the Heinlein story in the 1960's but don't recall anything remarkable about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers It's a nasty little piece of anti-Fascist satire, which appears to invert Heinlein's intentions. |
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