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Even proper Blu-ray discs are not safe. 4K Blu-rays can’t be played on new computers anymore.
by ruszki 3y ago
Even proper Blu-ray discs are not safe. 4K Blu-rays can’t be played on new computers anymore.
- neilv 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray#PC_playback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray#PC_playback With each iteration of video optical disc, industry got more ridiculous. (Started with DVD, with CSS nonsense, unskippable parts, and threatening screens with police state overtones. Then someone said "How can we make this even more consumer-hostile, and be total jerks about it", and thus all the garbage of Blu-ray. That was pretty hard to top with Blu-ray 4K, but sounds like someone said "Hold my beer...")
- nebula8804 3y agoThe restriction was that that 4K needed to be on 7th Gen Intel or newer and Windows only. This was due to the requirements that the DRM used Intel SGX security so if the underlying CPU did not have this tech then it cannot decrypt the disc. So no AMD, Apple or other ARM etc. The SGX security was recently cracked so I suspect this requirement is going away. The other platforms can easily play the underlying video format, its just the DRM that was preventing it. [1]:https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12296-full_aacsess_exposing_and_exploiting_aacsv2_uhd_drm_for_your_viewing_pleasure https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12296-full_aacsess_exposing_and_...