Cinavia Becoming More Prevalent

[Will Yaknowme]

Thanks,

I'll catch up and will keep reading.

WY

[mike_r]

Originally Posted by James

The easiest solution for the "Cinavia problem" is to use a player which *cannot* play retail Blu-ray discs. There are some media players which even support full blown Blu-ray menus, like the Netgear NTV550 (not tested myself).

I have the Netgear NeoTV 550, and I can confirm that this is the case. It even handles JAVA menus (eg German House on Haunted Hill, which has Sony ScreenProtect on it plays fine - thanks to AnyDVD)

[cardzetc]

With all of the talk on Cinavia, I have not seen any comment on the older 3D blu-ray players. About Cinavia having any capability to cause your player to automatically update it's firmware, to add Cinavia to your player causing playback issues with your new backups of a Cinavia protected disc. I have been able to backup some of the disc that say Cinavia protected and watch them on my older Samsung 3d player. I am however worried about Cinavia's advancements, does anyone know?

[fast eddie]

My circumvention for Cinavia, for both software and hardware playing until Cinavia can be defeated. But, I am bias towards hardware playing and creating back-up disks you can take to a friends house to watch a movie.
So for now, I create back-up disks that can be played in a hardware player or a software player.

1. Hardware playing
I have four hardware players without Cinavia and all are Sony. Will only do firmware update on ONE of them when the new source pressed BD-ROM will not play on them. All are over 18 months old and do not require a firmware update. Each new firmware update from Sony is stored on a seperate CD-R disk in case it is ever needed. (HDMI to HDTV)

2. Software playing
Use software players without Cinavia, VSO and XBMC work great for me, will play standard definition as well as Blu-ray, playback from the source pressed BD-ROM disk or back-up disk or play sometimes from the hard drive. (HDMI to HDTV)

So far, this procedure has worked well for me.

[gjokocovekot]

Hey guys, I understand that there has been cure for the Cinavia . Is that true?

[mike20021969]

Originally Posted by gjokocovekot

Hey guys, I understand that there has been cure for the Cinavia . Is that true?

Who knows.. Why don't you click the link in your signature then let us know?

[Ch3vr0n]

Originally Posted by gjokocovekot

Hey guys, I understand that there has been cure for Cinavia . Is that true?

No there isn't. The folks over at dvd2hd claimed they had one that was supposed to be released on oct 31st. We're all still waiting. They've changed their "release date" for their "cinavia module" about half a dozen times now, but an actual release has yet to be seen. Currently there is NO way to remove it

[Frank]

Originally Posted by gjokocovekot

Hey guys, I understand that there has been cure for Cinavia xxxxxxx . Is that true?

If you use that word again in connection with this I'll ban you for a while.

[Frank]

Originally Posted by gjokocovekot

Hey guys, I understand that there has been cure for the Cinavia . Is that true?

I will not tolerate the use of that disease name to describe some playback blocking. I have a good reason for this and if you use it again I'll temporarily ban you.

[mike20021969]

@ Frank
Apologies for not editing my quote correctly.
I completely agree with you. (Personal reasons in my case).

Originally Posted by Frank

that word