W3/W510 and BluRay

Spent the evening trying to get a BluRay to play on my W3 and apparently it is not permitted. Seems commercial BluRay disks will only play on machines that preserve HDCP rights.

Seems a little abusrd since I own the disk, the Tablet, and the drive but looks like that is why most include a regular DVD disk for people travelling.

Is there an answer ? Guess I need to stop buying BluRays, DVDs are less expensive anyway.

BTW according to the specs, the W3 "provides support for HDCP" but apparently only through the HDMI port and with an HDCP compliant device. I'll need to play some more tomorrow but looks like you can't watch a bluray on the W3 alone.

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Damreal

Have you tried an iso /copy and placed it on the desktop ? And am I mistken or when you buy a Blu ray you get a blu ray a dvd and a digital version as well /code you can download and watch or stream online

padgett

Not yet,just think with DRM going away (with nary a whimper), DHCP should do the same. I really see little difference between DVD HD and BluRay particularly on anything under 50" & have seen markets collapse (e.g. BetaMax) for less.

Bought mainly for 25GB long-life storage though will need to see how well that works out. Is also supposed to play 3D but have not tried that.

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