Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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?

He did.. it was one of those foreign call centers where the script the 'tech support' agent was completely inadequate.

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.

It's a region 1 player, so there should be no issues. Everything else works fine on it. It's some sort of HDDVD/Blu-Ray player, I forget what brand, but it was pretty pricey.

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.

I'll be doing that last thing. This is ridiculous. The average consumer doesn't have the technical ability or means to update one of these players. Even when I did that, it still didn't work.

Like I said, DRM is going to cost the movie industry a lot of business.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

He did.. it was one of those foreign call centers where the script the 'tech support' agent was completely inadequate.

It's a region 1 player, so there should be no issues. Everything else works fine on it. It's some sort of HDDVD/Blu-Ray player, I forget what brand, but it was pretty pricey.

I'll be doing that last thing. This is ridiculous. The average consumer doesn't have the technical ability or means to update one of these players. Even when I did that, it still didn't work.

Like I said, DRM is going to cost the movie industry a lot of business.

Dude...let me know if I can be of assistance...and an HD DVD/Blu Ray hybrid...yeah...I was initially looking for one of those.

When you find out the brand name and model number sned it to me, I may have some resources that can help.


There also may be a list out there of DVD players with movie incompatibilities...it's rare but it happens and that in part thanks to DRM.


You also may want to start here and see what you can find on your player.

http://www.blu-ray.com/