Yes I do! Just bought a new blue-ray player 3 months ago.

"Managed copies" ? It will only be a short matter of time after these machines come out, and the copy protection will get broken. It's just one of those inevitable things. Why do they even try? It took dvd copying a while to get broken. Ripping a dvd nowadays is a joke. Even a newb can figure it out. Besides, there are already ways to rip blu-ray dvd's.

Blu-Ray is a ripoff all by itself. Boycott it..

No. This is not a rip off because this is a not an important feature. Simply because players being built today do not support a "feature" allegedly coming online in 2010 does not mean that today's players are "obsolete" or "a rip off"

Any other industry, making the statement that this article makes would be considered ridiculous; not sure why home media thinks it gets a pass regarding: a. the pace of change, and, b. the need to put a given 'new feature' in context (rather than sceaming 'obsolete!' at every given opportunity)

This article is an exercise in FUD & promotion, nothing more.

eh. Burning/downloading/etc. copies at this point is so accessible, if not pervasive, that "managed copies" sounds like a lame attempt to nip it in the bud and "compete" against streaming.

Meh, I don't feel ripped off. All I have to do now is convince a friend who hasn't gotten a blu-ray player yet to wait till one comes out with this feature, then we can take turns buying movies, then just copy it so we both have it.

Better yet, he/she can use netflix, copy blu-rays, have a huge library, and lend them to me. We could even split the cost of the netflix membership. I don't see how this news hurts me. Just opportunity to squeeze a little extra value out of the ridiculous price of blu-rays.

I though the Playstation 3 was the only upgradable Blu Ray Player on the market. Does this mean the PS3 will not be able to use this feature when it become available with a firmware update from Sony?

ok so take off a teeny weeny little pixel that wont be noticed considering how hd bluray is. therefore wont be considered full res and wala!

Current players will still play the movies fine, and very few current players if any have the hardware to allow any sort of duplication. What sort of idiot would expect to be able to make a managed copy on a device without a Blu-Ray writer or USB port. Obsolete players, what utter hogwash. The author should take his lamentable attempts at journalism to a gutter tabloid where the sheep that make up the readership will be far less likely to call him on his bullshit.

LOL

ive been bad mouthing bluray and the companies aligned with it since before the HD war began and even over a year after its over they are still giving me ammo to use against them!

and blu is still taking big money and growing market share so thats 18 month well spent you must be so proud. your ammo must be dumb-dumbs ROFL.

How many people actually use stand-alone dvd copiers? This is really gonna be for PC users with blu-ray drives and that can all be handled via software updates

No I don't feel ripped off. We have seen this before with both CD and DVD media. You had to buy new hardware to burn your copies. Which in the beginning meant you had to choose between -R or +R. Then pray you made the right choice because not all the players could do both formats.

I think Blu-Ray is just the movie industry trying to regain control of the home video market. Ever since the DVD was cracked and now people can enjoy their titles they way they want to.

I have ripped most of my DVDs to a 1TB HD and I can watch anything from it at the click of the remote. Ok, so we can have one copy of each Blu-Ray title but what players will it play on? My video juke box won't be able to that is for sure. Makes it worthless to me.

What're you on about? This new managed copy thing lets the average Joe make a legal copy without breaking the law. Anyone else will just use other means like they always have done like you do with dvd. Trying to make it a negative is stupid.