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Not a big surprise because if you actually tried to watch blu-rays purely on a PC you know how much of a horrible, broken experience it has been for more than a
by qbasic_forever 4y ago
Not a big surprise because if you actually tried to watch blu-rays purely on a PC you know how much of a horrible, broken experience it has been for more than a decade. I could only get it to work with a very specific commercial version of PowerDVD on Windows years and years ago. Never been able to make it work since then, it's a real cluster.
- acomjean 4y agoDRM so good, even owners of the disks can't watch it. I've always wondered why companies punish those that actually purchased their products. Those that got it though other means have no such problems.
- hakfoo 4y agoIt's probably about protecting a commercial-level monopoly. You could presumably put together a box with a BD-ROM mechanism that runs a kiosk-mode VLC or the like that could play every concievable format. I'm sort of surprised it doesn't exist already on Alibaba. But chucking around the legal weight of DRM keeps that product off the market, ensuring that the "legitimate" manufacturers willing to pay for licenses, keys, and patent pools don't have to fight it.