Comments on: Upgrading Blu-ray Player Firmware from Linux

By: Earl Ruby

Earl Ruby — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:41:57 +0000

Your powers of comprehension are astounding. Even with my poor writing you understood exactly what I said! I really had to upgrade the firmware to watch the movie.

Check the fine print on your Blu-ray player’s paperwork and you’ll probably find a disclaimer that “discs may not play in your player unless you install the latest firmware upgrades.”

The Blu-ray Disc Association releases changes to their DRM spec and they make changes to the firmware to support the DRM embedded on the discs, trying to stay one step ahead of disc pirates. As new discs are released they use the new forms of DRM. If you don’t upgrade the firmware, you can’t watch the disc.

By: yeah ok sparky

yeah ok sparky — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:43:21 +0000

>I stuck the CD-ROM in the Blu-ray player and about 15 minutes later the player spit the disc back out.
>Now I can watch the movie…

Ummmm, I think you should learn how to write my friend; I understood your article as that you were not able to play BD Discs, so you upgraded the firmware, minutes after it ejected the disk, and that then is when you were able to watch the movie (As in you were not able to before).

By: Earl Ruby

Earl Ruby — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:28:05 +0000

I think you completely missed the point of the article. I was upgrading a Sony Blu-Ray player’s firmware, not playing Blu-Ray disks on the Linux box.

By: DEC014

DEC014 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:23:50 +0000

Are you playing the Blu-ray discs directly from the drive or are you ripping them to your hard disk? And if you are playing them directly, I would love to know how. I’ve been looking for a solution for a week now.