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A vice president of 20th Century Fox, speaking to Pocket-lint, has confirmed that UltraViolet, the cloud-based Blu ray-and-DVD video streaming service, will launch “very soon.” The same Fox executive also says that every major movie studio has signed onto the program, except Disney, and that the only big consumer electronics holdout — Apple — will soon toe the purple line.
But what is UltraViolet exactly? You’d be forgiven for having never heard of it — but once I tell you what it is, you’re either going to dribble with anticipation, or curse like a hippie libertarian who’s just had a bunch of human rights sucked out from underneath him. Basically, UltraViolet is a cloud-based library of your digital possessions. When you buy your first UltraViolet Blu-ray disc and slot it into your Blu-ray player at home, it will connect to the internet and ask you to make an account. This Blu-ray disc will then be forever connected to your UltraViolet account.
Now, there are a slew of seriously useful benefits associated with such a system. If you lose the original disc, don’t worry: just log into UltraViolet and download a copy — or simply stream it from the web. You can also pair multiple devices with your UV account — register the Blu-ray disc at home, and then stream it to your office computer, or your smartphone. This will also be the first ever fully-legal way to download TV shows and movies, too: log into the UV online store, purchase a license, and start watching right away. You’ll even be able to download your online purchase and burn it to DVD or Blu-ray — but of course, for many people, UltraViolet will be a way of finally getting rid of discs and their unsightly plastic cases.
Yes, UltraViolet is awesome — but now take a long, hard look at the caveats. For a start, UltraViolet isn’t just a cloud-based digital library — it’s DRM. To play UV Blu-ray and DVD discs, you need to access your digital library to download your license key — and if you’re not connected to the internet, the TV show or movie simply won’t start. Next, think about this for a second: your entire library of movies and TV shows will be stored in the cloud. There isn’t a single mention on the UltraViolet website that your library will be private — and with almost every major studio, broadcaster, ISP, and tech company on board, you can be guaranteed that they’ll be very interested in the contents of your digital library.
Because UltraViolet media cannot be played without internet access, Big Brother will see exactly what you watch and when you watch it. The powers that be will know exactly what kind of advertisements to show you, both on TV and on the web — and they’ll even be able to turn to companies like Coca-Cola or Verizon and tell them exactly which shows and movies they should buy product placement in.
The truly terrifying thing, though, is that there’s no guarantee that UltraViolet will be around for ever — and like Assassin’s Creed 2 and its infamous, web-based DRM system, what happens if your internet connection goes down when you want to watch a movie? Worse yet, what if UltraViolet is the target of a DDoS attack?
It looks like these Ultraviolet discs won't play without BD-Live. In other words, if your player isn't connected to the net, the disc won't play.
If that is the case, I wonder if SlySoft will be able to handle it.
Also, I noticed that the OP is now banned for some reason?
Well the original post was a year agoIt looks like these Ultraviolet discs won't play without BD-Live. In other words, if your player isn't connected to the net, the disc won't play.
If that is the case, I wonder if SlySoft will be able to handle it.
Also, I noticed that the OP is now banned for some reason?
I can't believe that at this stage the discs wouldn't play if you don't have an internet connection. Many people will buy these discs and then return them because they don't work. Not everyone wants to be forced into having to connect to the internet to play their films. Also not everyone who has a Blu-ray player even has internet. Many of our older customers have Blu-ray but no internet
Of course, someone correctly replied to him that DRM isn't really "full control". :doh: However, if without web access it still plays as an ordinary BD or DVD (as this commenter says), it's of no concern to AnyDVD users as long as DVD-ROM autorun (PC-Friendly) and BD-Live are disabled. (I think they're both disabled by default; if not, they should be.) As long as SlySoft is around, we will STILL have full control. :rock:I know quite a bit about UltraViolet and your caveats are simply wrong. UltraViolet is not a DRM. It uses existing DRMs that we use today, like Playready, Adobe, OMA, Widevine and Marlin. Those DRMs are used today in almost all content we collect. To play Blu-ray and DVDs that come with UltraViolet rights, you simply play them just like today. They are the same discs, exactly, except instead of a bonus digital copy that plays in only one platform, UltraViolet allows you to play on almost any device. No worries there. Its just a Blu-ray or DVD and will always play so long as there are DVD and Blu-ray players. Also, there is no requirement that requires a connection. That's only if you want to stream your movies from your favorite UltraViolet streaming service. You can always download to your movies to an UltraViolet device or application and watch your movies wherever you want. No connection is necessary. Also, the nice thing about your UltraViolet rights lpocker or cloud is that you control who gets to view it. Its very private. So now you have freedom to play your movies on any Ultraviolet device or application. Choice of Ultraviolet retailers. Its your movies, you now have full control.
That's how I read it as well; it only kicks in for making DRMed DCs, not BD playback or ripping. Even if BD playback requires signing in to UV (previously speculated but unlikely), disabling BD-Live should make that go away.From what I gather it doesn't look to affect the main blu-ray and instead seems to be some new digital copy DRM. Maybe this will be the end of iTunes' lock on digital copies. I guess we'll find out.
That's how I read it as well; it only kicks in for making DRMed DCs, not BD playback or ripping. Even if BD playback requires signing in to UV (previously speculated but unlikely), disabling BD-Live should make that go away.
Green Lantern and Horrible Bosses are going to have UV.
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...g-cloud-based-blu-ray-and-dvd-video-is-coming