"What good the is ... Create a Protected Disc (BDMV-REC) to disable Cinavia on PS3 with firmware <= 4.0"
Exactly what it says: it's good for copies to view on Play Station 3s running Cinavia versions 3 or earlier. For us it's good for not much.
If one would check the firmware download page on the Sony support site, there is clearly stated "Note: This upgrade includes Cinavia™ content protection technology." It's never been a secret nor has the industry's ubiquitous embrace of the tech.
It might be that your player had Cinavia right out of the box; so no fault of your own, really.
Of course, I'm assuming those savvy enough to use an app like DVDFab should be wise enough to poke around the support site for their AV equipment as well as AV forums (of which there are legion) for the latest news and knowledge bases.
Oh, and the DVDFab site:
We can, however, take DVDFab to task for being less, much less, than forthcoming about Cinavia among all the features extolled on the Products pages.
Consider also, failure to update your player will deny improvements to other features and new apps that may take priority over the need to view copies of store bought media. A case in point, Sony's network OSI and Netflix app have both been significantly improved over the past 8-10 months.
For that player (and many others no doubt), there is an excellent chance you can copy the BD50, BD25, BD9 or BD5 m2ts file from the DVDFab\MainMovie\title\STREAM\BDMV directory to a USB stick and view it in its entirety from the USB port on the player where the same file on a disc will fail.
If your smart TV has a USB input, it might also play that file from a USB hard drive as well. Which is what I've been doing with an old 320 GB external pulled from my retired equipment pile. For those BDs I purchased and can't copy to BD25 or BD9 for the kids and careless guests, that HDD and my smart TV are now my poor-man's DVDFab media player.
Good luck.
Exactly what it says: it's good for copies to view on Play Station 3s running Cinavia versions 3 or earlier. For us it's good for not much.
If one would check the firmware download page on the Sony support site, there is clearly stated "Note: This upgrade includes Cinavia™ content protection technology." It's never been a secret nor has the industry's ubiquitous embrace of the tech.
It might be that your player had Cinavia right out of the box; so no fault of your own, really.
Of course, I'm assuming those savvy enough to use an app like DVDFab should be wise enough to poke around the support site for their AV equipment as well as AV forums (of which there are legion) for the latest news and knowledge bases.
Oh, and the DVDFab site:
We can, however, take DVDFab to task for being less, much less, than forthcoming about Cinavia among all the features extolled on the Products pages.
Consider also, failure to update your player will deny improvements to other features and new apps that may take priority over the need to view copies of store bought media. A case in point, Sony's network OSI and Netflix app have both been significantly improved over the past 8-10 months.
For that player (and many others no doubt), there is an excellent chance you can copy the BD50, BD25, BD9 or BD5 m2ts file from the DVDFab\MainMovie\title\STREAM\BDMV directory to a USB stick and view it in its entirety from the USB port on the player where the same file on a disc will fail.
If your smart TV has a USB input, it might also play that file from a USB hard drive as well. Which is what I've been doing with an old 320 GB external pulled from my retired equipment pile. For those BDs I purchased and can't copy to BD25 or BD9 for the kids and careless guests, that HDD and my smart TV are now my poor-man's DVDFab media player.
Good luck.
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