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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
The PCs are only indulged, so that the new BD medium not be be unnecessary impeded to win the race. It won, now everything will be locked down, gradually, as no alternatives are available.
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Originally Posted by derbeDeus
I know what you mean... but it's a bit exaggerated. They will be "indulged" for a very long time from now on
PC BD players were the first to get in the BD+ list of "specially" handled devices and AFAIK they are the only ones to have native code written for. They are the weakest link and I assume at some point BD+ processing on PCs will become really-really silly (very much time consuming and error-prone), oh wait... we're already there.
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I realised that maybe I wrote something very interpretable: I know that the PCs can be used for BD playback, and this is actually a marketing bonuspoint.
I wanted to say that the PC must be "secure" in order to be able to play the original BDs, an insecure PC will equally play BDs, just in SD video/audio instead of HD, provided other conditions are met. Despite being technically a BD-playback I cannot call it that way since this resembles no longer a BD but a sort of HD2DVD. The trusted platform derivatives, which are for years embedded in various forms into the CPU/GPU can however prevent the playback of a non-original HD video/audio stream via FW/HW/SW upgrades. That will also solve the Linux "thorn" ....
So by locking down I meant that the user is driven through a very narrow passage, beyond his/her control, if s/he wants to play a BD or a DVD on his/her PC, and this passage can be anytime closed if the content distributors have this intent.
None of these are now possible in htis extent, but only the future will tell whether this is a doomsday scenario or a conspiracy theory. My personal belief is that they will implement it anyway, even if they may not use it, it harms not to have that lever in order to be able to push it anytime.