HDDVD and BlueRay cracked already?

It was 400USD, I think. It was about as much as some slightly larger TV's I was looking at that were lower resolution and had a much crappier selection of inputs.

 

Lets see.. If I understand the signifigance and how it is bigger than just revoking a software player. I believe this has to do with all players...

PS3 and blue ray players compromised ..sony updates. doom 9 knows keys on movies re-runs gets new key to update.. sony fires back and issues new key.. doom 9 does trick agian. all these people in the mean time have bought players from stores and a good percentage are not hooked up to internet so their players do not work with new movies. Sounds like a huge problem for sony. Risk isolating legit customers by attacking compromised systems or ignoring this.

Although for me as long as my player works cool. With the price of blue ray disc, backing up my movies is the same cost as buying them on sale so it is really a mute point. I just get a laugh out of it because the movie biz must have its pants in a not over this one.

 

They could do like MS did with Xbox games for dashboard updates (put updates on disc and loads when read)...but then again, look what the modding community did with that.

 

The instant they go to actually revoke keys and stuff doesn't start working someone will be flooded with calls, especially if the formats get the same penetration as DVD currently does.

 

Currently, as I understand it, only the player keys for software players have been compromised, and forced upgrades for them wouldn't get too much backlash. The player key for the PS3 isn't known - if it was, then Sony would be in real trouble. Same goes for any hardware player, currently their keys aren't known, unless I've missed something huge.

Is it only a matter of time before a player with a significant install base (and no easy way to update) is compromised? Probably. Not there yet, though.