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Re:DVD Sales Surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical Format Market by kevin_thibedeau on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:15PM (#33695065)
Blu-Ray players can be blacklisted at any time. If you can't get it updated it's useless for playing new releases.
Re:DVD Sales Surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical Format Market by itisit on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:19PM (#33699583)
This was a concern in the mid-to-late aughts very early into the format's debut, but not so much anymore, if at all. I have Pioneer Elite Blu-ray players running pre-2010 firmware that have never had any playback issues with new releases for 13 some years now.
Re:DVD Sales Surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical Format Market by account42 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:40AM (#33706259)
AFAIU ripping software providers have switched to distributing the per-release AACS processing keys instead of the per-device keys so there is nothing to revoke unless they somehow find out which devices or device keys are being used to decrypt those processing keys - and even that would only delay new leaks until another device/player is cracked.