24 Feb
2015
24 Feb
'15
4:55 a.m.
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On Monday 23 February 2015 11:22:02 am Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Both actually. Commercial disks are encrypted with the keys distributed
to the players in their firmware AFAIK--this makes it so that only select
manufacturers can play and/or create commercial video disks.
For most uses there are better options than Blu-Ray disks; there is a
small window in around the 100GB range that they might be useful but
honestly it would be more reliable at similar cost to buy a used LTO tape
system for that purpose. In general I wouldn't trust organic optical
media; the lifetimes are much, much shorter than typically stated even
when stored in a cool dry environment. Blu-Ray disks' primary use is for
DRMed movie distribution; if it weren't for that they would have become
obsolete long ago. :-)
Tim
On Monday 23 February 2015 18.10:52 Timothy
Pearson wrote:
No drm for data/personal use; is the drm on the movie discs or in the
firmare ? I'm not surprised at that; I boycotted
Blu-Ray a long time ago due to
it's primary use as a DRM enforcement technology* and therefore don't
have any Blu-Ray equipment with which to enhance k3b.
Tim
I've ordered an external burner - I'm not interrested in Blu-Ray itself,
but my Photo archive would require dozens of DVDs to secure (I remember
creating a set of 25 floppies to install OS/2, but that was long time
ago).
I understand Blu-Ray uses DRM to handle video, but does this mean it's
also
required to burn data? I want to burn Blu-Ray M-Discs (data only).
I'll switch to another OS if necessary (as it would only be for an
archival process) but of course I'd rather do it with Linux (and Trinity
if
possible).
If I can provide any information once the hardware is there...
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