{"id":83,"date":"2007-10-05T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2007\/10\/05\/even-more-bd-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T08:58:34","slug":"even-more-bd-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2007\/10\/05\/even-more-bd-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more BD+ nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just posted a link to this slashdot story<\/a> in our latest news forum<\/a>, following up yesterday’s blog about BD+. The effect of BD+ was worse than first though …<\/p>\n

Samsung’s BDP-1000 can reportely play the disc, but not without error messages and stutter. Samsung’s BDP-1200 and LG’s BH100 won’t even load the discs. While almost all players will experience increased load time (an additional 2 minute wait on the PS3, for example).<\/p>\n

The worse news is that Samsung is not planning on releasing a firmware update to fix this issue for another ‘couple’ of weeks, while LG is quicker off the line with a firmware update being planned for 3 to 4 days. Of course, when manufacturers say they will do something within a timeframe, it will usually take a bit longer.<\/p>\n

\"Artists
\nArtist’s impression of the BD+ logo – nobody knows what the real logo looks like because studios want to hide the fact that discs have them, so you could not avoid them even if you wanted to<\/span><\/p>\n

If I was a owner of one of these players and a BD+ disc, I would be absolutely incensed. Having paid for a player that is twice as much as HD DVD, for a discs that support less features than HD DVD (unless you count BD+ as a “feature”), and I still have a wait a couple of weeks just so the damn thing will play? No thanks.<\/p>\n

Coming after days when Sony BMG’s chief lawyer said<\/a> that copying a song you already own for yourself (eg. from the CD to your PC, or to your iPod) is considered stealing, I guess this means that even playing the movie you purchased can be considered stealing too. At least you are still able to copy a song to your iPod, even though you will have to live in fear of Sony’s legal department. Maybe this is the whole point of BD+, \u00a0to make sure nobody can play it so nobody would know whether it’s worth copying or not.<\/p>\n

In a related news, Kazuhiro Tsuga, who runs Panasonic’s (Matsushita) home electronics unit said that Blu-ray could defeat HD DVD by the end of the year<\/a>. If victory means not letting your own customers play movies that they have purchased legally, then I think Blu-ray has already won!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile us HD DVD losers will just have to cry ourselves to sleep after we watch Shrek The Third, Transformers, Star Trek: TOS, Battlestar Galactica: Season One, Anchorman, Evan Almighty, Old School, The Bourne Ultimatum and various other HD DVD exclusives to be released<\/a> before the end of the year. Sniffs.<\/p>\n

Update: I’ve read somewhere that the Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer problem is not related to BD+, and it might indeed be a BD-J (Blu-ray Disc Java) update related problem. The Day After Tomorrow disc may suffer from the same incompatibility. If so, then my Blu-ray: Buyer Beware<\/a> rant last week might be more relevant than my BD+ rant this week. And even\u00a0if it turns out to be a BD+ problem, then again this goes back to Blu-ray specifications and how they weren’t finalized at the time of release. Imagine what kind of problem people will be having when discs supporting Blu-ray profile 2.0 come out …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just posted a link to this slashdot story in our latest news forum, following up yesterday’s blog about BD+. The effect of BD+ was worse than first though … Samsung’s BDP-1000 can reportely play the disc, but not without error messages and stutter. Samsung’s BDP-1200 and LG’s BH100 won’t even load the discs. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-high_definition_dvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzVMv-1l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}