"Sony officially announced its BWU-100A product at its "Experience More 2006" event in Sydney yesterday, all the while acknowledging that there's significant room for improvement before the product is viable for integration into media centre PCs," reports CNet.
"Vincent Bautista, Sony's product manager for data storage, told CNET.com.au that due to copy protection issues and lagging software development, the drive will only play user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder, and not commercial movies released under the BD format."
Comment: Blu-ray movies use High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), so your PC needs an HDCP-compliant graphics card and HDCP software, neither of which is available for purchase. Does this mean Sony expects BWU-100A users to get their movies via BitTorrent?
