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LXer 01-06-2010 08:00 AM

LXer: Blu-Ray Comes to Linux, Finally!
 
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For the Linux fans out there, today is a great day! Up until now, blu-ray playback support in Linux has been very complicated and quite an aggravating experience. First you would have to hope you had the right BD-ROM drive and that there was a hacked firmware for you to flash it with. Then you had to hope the correct AACS keys were out on the interwebs for the blu-ray disc you wanted to watch. Once you had the right drive and the right keys, you had to dump the entire blu-ray disc to your hard drive and play it from there.

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H_TeXMeX_H 01-06-2010 11:32 AM

I still say to boycott it. If you buy it, they'll just use the profit to make a harder to crack one, and not support Linux either. Sure, you can be happy now, but it's gonna happen again that you won't be able to play it.


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