Sadly such DRM mechanisms can push people into ripping their movies just so they can insulate themselves from such unwanted reach (by the MPAA) into their costly home movie collection. In fact Microsoft has even shut down one of their DRM music servers which locked peole out of the music they bought and caused quite an issues. Such hasn't been used as yet (other than early PowerDVD BD software being revocated?) but the mechanism allows for it.ĭRM puts the scheme owners in controll of the things you buy.

What's worse is that you could insert a BD disk into your BD drive within your PC or even within your BD player under your TV and the revocation mechanism could be used to force the BD reader/software/player to toast itself and stop any BD playback. And it's easy for them to use this to stop updates and thus push you to a new version and have you pay $$ over and over again. Each year, new keys may be needed which means the software providers must release updates just to watch the new relaeses. Yes, more than competent freebies such as VLC are available, but when it comes to image quality, Cyberlink’s pay-player has no.

This means that you are on the upgrade treadmill when it comes to BD movie playback on PC. PowerDVD 20 offers the best video playback money can buy, bar none. Added to this is a revocation mechanisms that could render your player or software obsolete. BluRay discs use a rather onerous form of Digital Rights Management that mandates periodic updates to the decryption keys and the java based unscrambling mechanism used to simply view your purchased discs.

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