Not All Blu-ray Players Will Take You To Pandora
Avatar is officially the fastest-selling Blu-ray disc of all time, but not all customers are happy with their purchase. Some Blu-ray players can’t play the movie, thanks to a required firmware update that’s unavailable for some models. Tech site Crunchgear has singled out the Samsung BD-UP5000 Blu-ray player as one that’s having particular issues, but the problem could be much more widespread than that. Some
Some commenters on Amazon.com are claiming that it’s more than an firmware issue, rather a Digitial Right Management (DRM) issue that’s preventing the discs from playing. Either way, if you were thinking about picking up that particular very-pretty-but-mediocre-in-every-other-way film, then you’d better verify that the disc will run in your player.
Source: Akihabara News
