That's fine for you.. but why should other people have to DOWNLOAD a movie they JUST BOUGHT!??
I dont' want to waste my internet bandwidth, which causes hickups with VOIP if actually getting the speeds needed to download FIFTY GIGS of data, nor do I want to kill my time waiting for something I've already purchased and should be able to pop into my bluray player.
Its your attitude that "these options are just fine" that perpetuates these issues forever.
The KEY issue here, is that Bluray is not 100% standardized. If it were, then these issues with playback SHOULD NOT EXIST! The ONLY reason there should be problems in attempting to playback content from a bluray, is if the disk or the player is physically or logically broken (ie. scratched, warped, player having too much dust over the laser lense, etc)
This is not a "logical" problem when you specifically encode a disk, and then don't have the means to allow updates to the players that work. Updates that work!! being the key..
I have one of the samsung players, and like a few others have said.. I bought my player specifically because I was also buying Avatar (or Avatard as I'm so keen to say). So I'm not an "early adopter" I waited these TWO YEARS and STILL I get a product that is built off of a standard that isn't formalized to get rid of these types of problems!??
Bluray is NOT finished, is NOT ready and companies making products should be FINED FOR EVERY INSTANCE OF PROBLEMS THEY PUT OUT THERE LIKE THIS.
One person over at a thread on CNet bought A Ghostbuster's release and hadn't been able to play it for nearly 6 months while waiting for updates to fix issues.
SIX MONTHS! Now if you go out and by that same disk, you pay less, and could pop it right in to play ... so the manufacturer got TOP DOLLAR for their UNUSABLE PRODUCT! That's theft in my book.. you put it out, it should work. Not in 6 months, not in 6 days (my case with avatard, not 6 hours ... I buy it, it should be ready to run... PERIOD!
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