I decided I wanted to watch a BluRay to remind myself of what the quality difference was to iTunes or Netflix HD. So I turned on my PS3 and stuck in the disk.
My PS3 shouted that it hadn't properly been turned off (I get power failures), and began some sort of scan. It took long enough my TV lost the input and I had to switch it back to the right one. (Once I figured out which input that was -- I had to change it after my receiver decided it was no longer HDCP compliant and refused to pass on signals any more.)
Then my PS3 wanted a firmware update. I was already past 10 minutes.
Then I had to re-learn how to navigate that impenetrable cross-bar interface to first find the video icon, then the thumbnail for the damn movie. Finally I chose it.
Then I was told I needed new decryption keys. The last time that happened I had to set up Wi-Fi on the damn thing using a PS3 controller, which took forever due to the sucky interface and the length of my password. Luckily, this time it was just annoyingly long.
Finally the movie started. Though not really. It began to play trailers and ads, none of which were easily skip-able.
While that was going on, I grabbed another disk that advertised a digital copy. I bought it in 2009 but never bothered to pull the digital copy off. I figured anything was better at this point, so I stuck it in my Mac Pro and waited for it to load, then figured out I needed to open it in Finder and launch the DMG file.
That just set off an error saying PowerPC was no longer supported, and I could install whateverthe software they wanted me to install to move the damn copy to iTunes. (Apple announced the Intel in 2006.)
By that time the BluRay was actually ready to play, but the combination of Sony's terrible, DRM-bloated, Hollywood compromised software, and the awful user experience of both the player and plastic disk made me want to kick it instead.
I'm done with that medium. I can't wait for whatever figurative meteor extinguishes old Hollywood dinosaurs either.
My PS3 shouted that it hadn't properly been turned off (I get power failures), and began some sort of scan. It took long enough my TV lost the input and I had to switch it back to the right one. (Once I figured out which input that was -- I had to change it after my receiver decided it was no longer HDCP compliant and refused to pass on signals any more.)
Then my PS3 wanted a firmware update. I was already past 10 minutes.
Then I had to re-learn how to navigate that impenetrable cross-bar interface to first find the video icon, then the thumbnail for the damn movie. Finally I chose it.
Then I was told I needed new decryption keys. The last time that happened I had to set up Wi-Fi on the damn thing using a PS3 controller, which took forever due to the sucky interface and the length of my password. Luckily, this time it was just annoyingly long.
Finally the movie started. Though not really. It began to play trailers and ads, none of which were easily skip-able.
While that was going on, I grabbed another disk that advertised a digital copy. I bought it in 2009 but never bothered to pull the digital copy off. I figured anything was better at this point, so I stuck it in my Mac Pro and waited for it to load, then figured out I needed to open it in Finder and launch the DMG file.
That just set off an error saying PowerPC was no longer supported, and I could install whateverthe software they wanted me to install to move the damn copy to iTunes. (Apple announced the Intel in 2006.)
By that time the BluRay was actually ready to play, but the combination of Sony's terrible, DRM-bloated, Hollywood compromised software, and the awful user experience of both the player and plastic disk made me want to kick it instead.
I'm done with that medium. I can't wait for whatever figurative meteor extinguishes old Hollywood dinosaurs either.