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I just hope K manages to release the new movieplayers this year and they inlude all the features we would like...
And the irony is revenue would increase more with greater flexibility!
Unfortunately, unless the studios follow through with their promise to give us all managed copy or unless the DMCA becomes less restrictive, that's likely the most you will get. Perhaps they will offer a streaming solution where you can put a disk or disks in a player (the latter being a changer design) so that you don't just get playback in the player is, but that's about as much as you can expect. There likely is no loophole in the BR licensing agreement like there is with DVD. As such, K does not have a legal path to rip BR content. There's not much that they can do about that unless the studios budge and given the format war's end, that seems less likely now than ever. They could try to offer managed copy as a way to prop up BR sales, but then they would likely be cannibalizing download revenues.
It's a sad state of affairs but the facts are what they are. As usual, we're at the mercy of the studios to give us a better solution and they have shown a reluctance to do that for us. Flexibility usually takes a back seat to revenue. It doesn't surprise me one but, but it is a little sad.
Jeff