6 Months Later

Well its now 6 months on and I have not had any problems with ANY new DVD’s including Sony’s since the last post in April.  Hooray !!!!!

Sony Fesses Up !

A couple of websites are reporting Sony has now fessed up to the problem (they now say it WAS a problem with the copy protection) and are re-issuing and replacing the faulty DVD’s. http://consumerist.com/consumer/sony/sony-recalls-broken-drm+filled-dvds-253470.php 
 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070418-sony-to-replace-incompatible-dvds.html
End of story?  Maybe……
Are they going to replace all of Netflix & Blockbusters stock of faulty DVD’s?
I have just searched the Sony USA website [...]

UPDATE:

I called Sony today about the firmware update.  After getting disconnected once by technical support I was finally told to call Sony Style.  Called Sony Style repeated everything again, kept getting put on hold while the rep checked “information”.  Finally was told the firmware update is still not available and they do not have a [...]

Sony Pictures DVD’s have a new a copy protection that makes the movies unplayable on some Sony (& other makes) DVD players!

YES ! It appears that Sony have done it again.  In their zeal to make their DVD movies copyproof (yeah right) they have in fact made their latest releases unplayable on some DVD players, including my Sony DVP-CX995V DVD player. I recently rented “Stranger than Fiction” (2 copies) and “The Holiday” ( please no comments [...]