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Originally Posted by Derb
Thats all second party BD-R/BD-RE discs are for.
Piracy
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What about people that want to produce hidef discs on a small scale for things like Weddings, High School Sports, etc? Or if you want to backup a movie you own? Out of luck on Blu-Ray it looks like.
Another reason to support HD DVD! Open recordable format, and one that does not treat the disc buyer like a criminal.
Here is the official word from Sony:
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Originally Posted by paidgeek, Sony Employee/Insider
Blu-ray players were never supposed to support BDMV authored content using ordinary data type BD-R or BD-RE media. An exemption was made for a number of months so that available blank discs could be used for testing and other promotional activities; this exemption expired recently...
...The players were not permitted to play movie content from the current blank media to begin with. There was an exception made for a short period of time to help facilitate testing and demonstrations. This issues has been given consideration since before the launch of the format. The fundamental issue is easy to understand. The studios cannot accept the use of blank media for making clones of copyrighted discs. The computer industry wants to empower consumers to fully utilize the format and that is fine, so long as measures are taken to protect copyright...
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Lord knows what will happen if BD wins!