# Hahaha another sony sucks thread **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 11, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828 "2006-08-11T11:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/1 "2006-08-11T11:42:39Z")
**The first Blu-ray (BD) disc drive for desktop PCs is here, but be warned – it won’t play commercial BD movies.** Sony officially announced its BWU-100A product at its “Experience More 2006” event in Sydney yesterday, all the while acknowledging that there’s significant room for improvement before the product is viable for integration into media centre PCs. Vincent Bautista, Sony’s product manager for data storage, told CNET.com.au that due to copy protection issues and lagging software development, the drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not [commercial movies](http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/) released under the BD format. Bautista says that one of two reasons for this is the fact that commercial content is encrypted with High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which can only be decrypted using a HDCP-compliant graphics card that offers DVI or [HDMI](http://www.cnet.com.au/tvs/accessories/0,39035326,40004563,00.htm) connections. Since there are currently no PCs for sale offering graphics chips that support HDCP, this isn’t yet possible. The second reason, according to Bautista, is that BD playback software that can decrypt HDCP isn’t “released as a saleable item yet”. Today, the only HDCP-supporting BD playback application is the OEM version of Intervideo WinDVD BD that’s bundled with Sony’s [VAIO VGN-AR18GP](http://www.cnet.com.au/laptops/laptops/0,39035649,40064126,00.htm) notebook. The AR18GP also offers an HDCP-compliant HDMI connector, which makes it capable of playing commercial movies without issue. Bautista is optimistic that both issues will be resolved “soon”, and says that despite not being able to play commercial content, the drive is still useful as a “storage device”, particularly for those looking to create and distribute their own high-definition home movies on [BD-R and BD-RE discs](http://www.cnet.com.au/desktops/storage/0,39029473,40091661,00.htm). The Sony BWU100A has a write speed of 2x and will be available this month for AU$1399. I feel sorry for all you sony humpers, you are really misinformed. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/2 "2006-08-11T12:32:47Z")
I’ll stick with DVD’s 🙂 cheep and no getting tagged with sony’s spyware (ala rootkit) ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/3 "2006-08-11T12:35:51Z")
blu-ray is a dvd lol ---
**Author:** ![JaysGreenLX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jaysgreenlx/32/7321_2.png) [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/4 "2006-08-11T12:47:53Z")
Thats kinda funny that their own drive won’t play their own format. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/5 "2006-08-11T12:54:55Z")
I lolled. ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/6 "2006-08-11T13:40:58Z")
:sigh: ---
**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/7 "2006-08-11T15:57:50Z")
Lame article… Obviously it is just a matter of time before that shit comes out… Sorta like buying a HD TV when there is no HD programming… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/8 "2006-08-11T16:45:11Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > blu-ray is a dvd > > lol well if ya want to get technical, you could say it’s a cd too ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/9 "2006-08-11T20:32:12Z")
> [@itsJim](#): > > Lame article… Obviously it is just a matter of time before that shit comes out… Sorta like buying a HD TV when there is no HD programming… sony still sucks man, get over it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hahaha-another-sony-sucks-thread/15828/10 "2006-08-11T20:36:24Z")
Sony = MS Japan. :tup: