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Samsung Blu Ray Player.
Purchased in U.S.A. Blu Ray disks purchased at local Best Buy (U.S.A.) Get message "Cannot play due to disk restrictions". e.g. one Blu Ray will not play at all except for all the preview stuff and the where I would push play. On another it plays the release version but not extended cut version with the same restricted message. Where do I go to find out what I am doing wrong ? I am 75 yo and struggling with this. Thanks |
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TrialAndError wrote:
Samsung Blu Ray Player. Purchased in U.S.A. Blu Ray disks purchased at local Best Buy (U.S.A.) Get message "Cannot play due to disk restrictions". e.g. one Blu Ray will not play at all except for all the preview stuff and the where I would push play. On another it plays the release version but not extended cut version with the same restricted message. Where do I go to find out what I am doing wrong ? I am 75 yo and struggling with this. Thanks Did your player's region code get changed? |
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On 20/03/2017 02:16, TrialAndError wrote:
Samsung Blu Ray Player. Purchased in U.S.A. Blu Ray disks purchased at local Best Buy (U.S.A.) Get message "Cannot play due to disk restrictions". e.g. one Blu Ray will not play at all except for all the preview stuff and the where I would push play. On another it plays the release version but not extended cut version with the same restricted message. Where do I go to find out what I am doing wrong ? I am 75 yo and struggling with this. Thanks If you bought a DVD/Blue Ray for the wrong region then you might be able to change the Region on your machine temporarily. Please note doing this all the time is not the solution because Microsoft has put a limit how many times you can change the region. See this pictu Change DV d Region http://i.imgur.com/z43aSJl.png Microsoft is a legitimate corporation so it can't help people buying the DVDs in China and playing them in USA. Trump won't like this and Microsoft doesn't like this either. You need to go to the Control Panel and Choose "Device Manager" then select your DVD drives and right-click on one of them (assuming you have couple like I have)and Properties to get the window I posted above. I don't use 7 any more so I can't be of any help here. There are many poor people here so they can help you on 7. -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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TrialAndError wrote:
Samsung Blu Ray Player. Purchased in U.S.A. Blu Ray disks purchased at local Best Buy (U.S.A.) Get message "Cannot play due to disk restrictions". e.g. one Blu Ray will not play at all except for all the preview stuff and the where I would push play. On another it plays the release version but not extended cut version with the same restricted message. Where do I go to find out what I am doing wrong ? I am 75 yo and struggling with this. Thanks You should ask Paul why he doesn't have a Blu Ray drive some time :-) Copy protection for the win. Region lock is one thing, but needing to have the player Internet connected, needing "Java" files to make it work, is a bridge too far. You can have a Blu Ray drive in your computer. You can also buy standalone set top Blu Ray players, which have an Ethernet connector on them, so they can update themselves. The procedures will be slightly different. You need "player software" for a BD drive just added to your computer, and it won't be cheap. And the player software may need to download updates too. http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/...y-your-movies/ http://www.macworld.com/article/3179...handbrake.html One of the extra-special treats with Blu Ray, is your player (internal or set top) may acquire an update, be able to play the *new* disc, then stop playing an *older* disc. You, sir, are screwed. You cannot undo one of those updates. There is the notion of "revocation", which can cause an older disc to fail. So Paul just says "No!" to this kinda fun. If the only way to watch legally-purchased content, is with a copy of MakeMKV and HandBrake, that's a bridge too far. I might as well re-enact the movie in my basement, with a Punch and Judy stage and some sock puppets. If you'd provided details, such as the *exact* player or computer drive model, the player software you were using, the *exact* titles that worked or didn't work, I could look them up. But really at this point, how much energy would I have for this sort of thing ? My expectations of success are pretty low :-) It's like working in a HandCuff factory, where the keys are made in a different factory. And all the handcuffs are locked. Paul |
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"TrialAndError" wrote
| Samsung Blu Ray Player. | Get message | "Cannot play due to disk restrictions". | I have similar problems with a stand-alone Samsung BluRay player hooked up to a TV. It's fine with BluRay, but with some regular DVDs it plays for about 20 minutes and then turns off the sound and blocks the video with a big legal warning. (That player also has no light to indicate when it's on, which I regard as an indefensible and irritating design flaw.) It turns out the problem is that Samsung partnered with a company called Cinavia to add digital restrictions to BluRay. According to Wikipedia, it's been required on all Blue Ray players (in the US?) since 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia What I don't know is whether all restrictions are Cinavia software or whether that's the only problem. I get the audio warning. I've had it on a number of DVDs from the local library and on one from Netflix. Never on a BluRay disk, which is *supposed to* be the only media affected. I'm guessing that these companies are bowing to pressure from Hollywood. "We don't care if you have to break the players. Just make sure bootlegs won't play." Or maybe it's actually a plot to make non-BluRay seem undependable. That wouldn't surprise me. I'm hesitant to buy another BluRay player. Personally I don't see a difference. We have a flatscreen TV with BluRay player and a CRT TV with DVD player. They're both fine. I care far more about whether the movie is good. I've never noticed a bad picture on the CRT. To me it's like 3-D: The theory sounds exciting, but it turns out that the mind has as much to do with what you see as the eyes do, and the mind does a much better job of 3-D than the ridiculous dual-plane method of 3-D that the studios are trying to market. Likewise, once I'm invloved in a movie I don't think about how good the colors and contrast are. (The other night we watched Harvey on the flatscreen. Not BluRay. The black-and-white was beautiful. So the value of BluRay is questionable. On the other hand, regular DVDs may get phased out. At this point, most of the DVDs at my local library are non-BluRay and Netflix sends non-BluRay. So I'm tempted to just replace the BluRay player with a regular player. So the first problem is that the digital restriction software is buggy. But your experience sounds worse. If it were me I'd take back both players, if possible, and get another BluRay and another regular DVD player, with neither being Samsung. I used to assume Samsung was a safe bet, but they've been screwing up a number of things recently. There seems to be something wrong with the company itself. Last year they recalled washing machines because the tops can fall off unexpectedly! |
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Thanks for your responses.
To clarify. The Samsung is connected via HDMI to a TV. All are disconnected from internet. Regular DVDs play OK. Some Blu Rays do play OK. But for instance one that only plays the Blu Ray release but not the Blu Ray Extended cut. ----------------------- Now on my desktop PC with a Blu Ray unit and Nero softwa The one Blu Ray that will not play with the Samsung. It will play on my PC that has a Blu Ray unit built in. I am using NERO Blu Ray player to play it successfully. Does this help identify a problem? |
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TrialAndError wrote:
Thanks for your responses. To clarify. The Samsung is connected via HDMI to a TV. All are disconnected from internet. Regular DVDs play OK. Some Blu Rays do play OK. But for instance one that only plays the Blu Ray release but not the Blu Ray Extended cut. ----------------------- Now on my desktop PC with a Blu Ray unit and Nero softwa The one Blu Ray that will not play with the Samsung. It will play on my PC that has a Blu Ray unit built in. I am using NERO Blu Ray player to play it successfully. Does this help identify a problem? That's a lot clearer. At least you don't have a Philips. http://www.supportforum.philips.com/...hp/t-3108.html Paul |
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:21:54 -0400, Paul wrote:
TrialAndError wrote: Thanks for your responses. To clarify. The Samsung is connected via HDMI to a TV. All are disconnected from internet. Regular DVDs play OK. Some Blu Rays do play OK. But for instance one that only plays the Blu Ray release but not the Blu Ray Extended cut. ----------------------- Now on my desktop PC with a Blu Ray unit and Nero softwa The one Blu Ray that will not play with the Samsung. It will play on my PC that has a Blu Ray unit built in. I am using NERO Blu Ray player to play it successfully. Does this help identify a problem? That's a lot clearer. At least you don't have a Philips. http://www.supportforum.philips.com/...hp/t-3108.html The general rule of thumb in situations like this is that the farther down the ladder you go, down amongst no-name brands that no one has ever heard of, the more lenient they are about playing absolutely everything you can think to throw at it. Above, the reference to Philips reminds me of a standalone DVD recorder I used to have. Its user reviews used to say that it plays everything you can think of, and would probably play a rusty old soup can if you could find a way to fit it into the slot, and I found that to be true. The higher end brands, where the name on the front is something that people have actually heard of, can afford to add the various DRM schemes and properly license them. The little guys just ignore all of that. -- Char Jackson |
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On 3/20/2017 10:43 AM, TrialAndError wrote:
Thanks for your responses. To clarify. The Samsung is connected via HDMI to a TV. All are disconnected from internet. Regular DVDs play OK. Some Blu Rays do play OK. But for instance one that only plays the Blu Ray release but not the Blu Ray Extended cut. ----------------------- Now on my desktop PC with a Blu Ray unit and Nero softwa The one Blu Ray that will not play with the Samsung. It will play on my PC that has a Blu Ray unit built in. I am using NERO Blu Ray player to play it successfully. Does this help identify a problem? Sounds like you've been revoked. The disk can revoke the keys stored in your drive without any help from you or the internet. I bought a used blue ray drive and stuck it in my Computer. I checked out disks from the library and they played fine. I borrowed my neighbor's "Avatar". It wouldn't play. And the library disks now failed to play. SCREWED. Seems that the subscription blu ray player apps get the recent keys so they can play the disks. I can't get excited about quality improvement over DVD. Won't be long before you pay the $50 fee to watch the movie online and they'll implant a post-hypnotic-suggestion that you've seen it. Won't have to waste all that time watching it. Heck, they won't even produce the movies any more. All they need are trailers... and cash registers. I was gonna use the drive for data backups, but the RE disks have all but disappeared from stores. And they cost more than a USB flash drive anyway. |
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On 03/20/2017 02:47 PM, mike wrote:
[snip] Sounds like you've been revoked. The disk can revoke the keys stored in your drive without any help from you or the internet. In other words, the disk contains malware that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the player. |
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On 3/20/2017 2:52 PM, Sam E wrote:
On 03/20/2017 02:47 PM, mike wrote: [snip] Sounds like you've been revoked. The disk can revoke the keys stored in your drive without any help from you or the internet. In other words, the disk contains malware that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the player. The disk IMPLEMENTS the strategy integrated into the player and the media to protect the revenue stream of the content provider... for your protection. I just wish I'd known that before I bought the blu ray drive... also for MY protection. If you buy a licensed media player, keep it updated online and play licensed disks, it should all work fine...until it doesn't. |
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Looks like more trouble.
Desktop PC with Blu Ray player and Nero. I think this is the 2017 version of Nero. The Blu Ray plays here (that does not play on the Samsung, BUT The sound goes on an off. I did not get to fully investigate the AM but maybe when it changes sections (or tracks or whatever they are called) the sound goes from normal to very much like a whisper. Now my set up might be related but since it seems "track" related then either it is Nero or the DVD. I tough had a PowerDVD installed but seems only remnants of it are there. I guess I thought Nero was better since I paid for it. Setup Desktop PC Blu Ray player in it HDMI to a different monitor (I use this all the time for the Desktop PC and never had any problem like this) Monitor Audio out to external speakers (the monitor speaker are ratty). External speaker work just fine for when using Media Center or VLP on the desktop (also goes tho monitor via HDMI and then to external speakers) Adjusting any volume control does no good. Volume controls on Windows 7 on desktop PC. Volume control on monitor Volume control on external speakers Is this a known problem or not ? $27 Blu Ray DVD down the drain since returns not allowed. |
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TrialAndError wrote:
Looks like more trouble. Desktop PC with Blu Ray player and Nero. I think this is the 2017 version of Nero. The Blu Ray plays here (that does not play on the Samsung, BUT The sound goes on an off. I did not get to fully investigate the AM but maybe when it changes sections (or tracks or whatever they are called) the sound goes from normal to very much like a whisper. Now my set up might be related but since it seems "track" related then either it is Nero or the DVD. I tough had a PowerDVD installed but seems only remnants of it are there. I guess I thought Nero was better since I paid for it. Setup Desktop PC Blu Ray player in it HDMI to a different monitor (I use this all the time for the Desktop PC and never had any problem like this) Monitor Audio out to external speakers (the monitor speaker are ratty). External speaker work just fine for when using Media Center or VLP on the desktop (also goes tho monitor via HDMI and then to external speakers) Adjusting any volume control does no good. Volume controls on Windows 7 on desktop PC. Volume control on monitor Volume control on external speakers Is this a known problem or not ? $27 Blu Ray DVD down the drain since returns not allowed. You might be able to rip it to some other format and save. Matroska (MakeMKV) is no longer free, however there are other rippers available. Try using VLC player on the original BV first. If that does not work then rip it to hdd and burn to DVD using a compressed format, like MP4, etc. Or... just find the movie on the web and steam or d/l it. |
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In message , TrialAndError
writes: [] $27 Blu Ray DVD down the drain since returns not allowed. IANAL, but in UK at least, such a policy (returns not allowed) would not be held valid (and an attempt to enforce it might itself be an offence). There _are_ exceptions for copyright material, such as movies and software, but those are to stop people buying, watching, and returning: if it actually won't play, the exceptions don't hold. (Repeat, IANAL.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf You'll need to have this fish in your ear. (First series, fit the first.) |
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:19:26 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , TrialAndError writes: [] $27 Blu Ray DVD down the drain since returns not allowed. IANAL, What, you are anal? I didn't know that. g Kidding aside, I had never seen that abbreviation before. But I just googled it, so I now know what it means. but in UK at least, such a policy (returns not allowed) would not be held valid (and an attempt to enforce it might itself be an offence). There _are_ exceptions for copyright material, such as movies and software, but those are to stop people buying, watching, and returning: if it actually won't play, the exceptions don't hold. (Repeat, IANAL.) |
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