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Lionsgate Bluray and copywrite protection

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3/29/08 at 11:08am
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I've had my first encounter with a bluray disc that wouldn't play on my Panasonic BD30. I rented WAR and the disc failed to load and showed an error message saying COPYWRITE VIOLATION. I am using component output to my 720p projector and I assume this is the culprit as it probably means that I am to use HDMI only in order to play this disc.

I've watched Lionsgate BRD's before and never had an issue like this. Is this the future for BRD? HDMI only??
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3/29/08 at 11:27am
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Re: Lionsgate Bluray and copywrite protection

I believe that:

a) No discs from the major studios will be produced with an Image Constraint Token until 2010 or possibly 2012.
b) If an Image Constraint Token is present it will limit the video to 960x540 pixels, but will not prevent playback over component.

I have no idea why this disc / player produced this error, but I do not think that it was because of playback on a component output. Good luck.

- Walter.

Fidelity to the source should always be the goal for Blu-ray releases.

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3/29/08 at 1:51pm
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Re: Lionsgate Bluray and copywrite protection

If you haven't updated your Blu-ray Disc player with the latest firmware, I would suggest doing that before you, potentially, waste your time doing a lot of troubleshooting. If your player already has the lastest firmware update, it is entirely possible you have a damaged disc considering it is a rental.
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3/29/08 at 3:43pm
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Re: Lionsgate Bluray and copywrite protection

I remember some other BD30 owners were getting the same message when they tried to play The Brave One a few weeks back. I believe updating the firmware did the trick.
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3/29/08 at 7:24pm
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Re: Lionsgate Bluray and copywrite protection

Well I decided to give the disc a good cleaning being it was a rental (although it looked clean minus a small fingerprint) and it played.

I guess what alarmed me was the nature of the error message: Copywrite Violation?

Oh well, feel a bit silly right now

Thanks for your input though guys
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