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Originally Posted by Kevin
They get it!!!
DRM, fwiw, ruined my Christmas present to my father. I bought him the bluray set of Band of Brothers. It wouldn't work in his player, so I updated the player to whatever the most recent version of its software, and it still didn't work. The disc kept popping up with some strange message about the player not being in "region one or region two" (or A or B or something like that), which is definitely not the case.
I'd be willing to bet that DRM and incompatibility cost the MPAA/RIAA constituents more than piracy ever will.
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Thanks for the warning...I have been eyeing that set since it came out....I already have it on Standard DVD....heh
What brand of player does he have and have you all called their customer service to get answers?
The region message simply means that the player and the disk must correspond to the country that each product was set for.
For instance: DVD players in the US are set to region 1 meaning all US made disks will play in them...anything made for Europe will not...you get the idea...now if you get lucky and find a blu ray player with a region 0 setting (global) you are doing pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
You may want to consider exchanging either the player or disk and see what happens...if you still get the same results, contact the companies about the DRM effed up products.