BWU-100A, Sony’s First Blu-ray Disc Drive will Not Play Blu-ray Movies
On Friday, at the “Experience More 2006″ event in Sydney, Sony officially announced that BWU-100A, which is their pioneering Blu-ray player for desktop PC’s will not allow playback of retail Blue-ray movies due to the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) encryption on the discs. The drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not commercial movies released under the BD format. At present there are no HDCP-compliant video cards on the market that can decrypt the code. Even if there were, there is no playback software available to obtain that can decrypt HDCP either.
Sony is optimistic that they will resolve the issues “soon”, and added that despite not being able to play commercial content, the drive is still useful as a backup and “storage device”, particularly for those looking to create and distribute their own (non-encrypted) Blu-ray movies on BD-R and BD-RE discs.
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