Blu Ray problems in US

[Bucky]

Mrs. Bucky is in a tizzy. She has received a new Blu Ray player (Sony BDP-S330) for Christmas. Of course she was excited to open it and have it play the discs that her pal in Kawasaki records and sends to her.

That is, she was excited until we tried to play the discs. These home-brewed Blu Ray discs don't hunt. The discs are recorded on a Sharp Blu Ray player onto Victor 25GB BD-R discs. The discs don't play on Mrs. Bucky's new player. We did find that the 'created' discs do play on an LG BP 330 Blu Ray player.

Anyone have any thoughts about what might be going on? Does Sharp have some proprietary recording process that limits player compatibility?

[wagyl]

My first guess would be, if these are copies of broadcast TV programs, that there is a Digital Rights Management/Copy Protect issue. Japan tends to be a bit Galapagos in this field of technology too, which limits the ability to send TV programs overseas. Maybe LG is happy to ignore those restrictions, and Sony is not.

[Coligny]

...Sony BDP-S330...

I got your problem here...

For DVD and BR, always go chinese or Korean, they hardly give a fuck about content protection...

See if the friend can record on DVD blanks instead of BR, it might do the trick. And maybe reflect on the fact that you are married to a person who go out of her way to watch japanese TV shows...

[IparryU]

Rip blue ray to pc, convert to mp4 or avi, put on usb and insert into player.

[6810]

Rip blue ray to pc, convert to mp4 or avi, put on usb and insert into player.

what he said. Rip to pc/smash DRM (plenty of freeware programs out there to do this, you might have to search for specific software for specific makers) then stream it to your player or use a USB etc.