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Cinavia technology will become mandatory for all Blu-ray players as of February 1, 2012

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Cinavia protection consists of a multi-level watermark that is embedded in the audio track and, while being theoretically transparent(not-audible) for the listener, it is supposed to resist various transformations of the audio stream like re-compression, analog playback & record, re-sampling, pitch shift, etc. The base levels are analog, but on the top level there�s the watermark payload that contains some restrictions regarding the playback environment.

The protection has two elements (one cannot work without the other):

1. The watermark embedded in audio-video content.

2. Cinavia enabled player, that will refuse to play the content if it does not match the restrictions.

Source: Verance�s watermark-based content protection technology becomes mandatory.
http://www.verance.com/AdminSavR/news/news_item.php?news_id= (Open in New Window)

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RE: Cinavia technology will become mandatory for all Blu-ray players as of February 1, 2012 - Mr Peabody 21:20:06 04/14/12 (2)
I wonder what this actually means for all of us who already have BDP, is this already in there and I've never heard of it, or will we eventually have to replace our machines?

Between HDCP and firmware updates to play the latest BD's do we really need another bug..... With receivers coming out this year with 4k video upsampling, for what reason at this point it's basically useless, I have to wonder how long will Blu-ray's life be anyway.
- This crap is why i never did buy a BluRay player and never will. DVDs are fine. nt - Elizabeth 00:00:56 05/20/12 (1)
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  - RE: This crap is why i never did buy a BluRay player and never will. DVDs are fine. nt - cfraser 19:55:53 05/22/12 (0)
    Ignore the crap, there's always crap. All existing BDs will still play anyway, so no prob.
    
    You really really MUST have a decent BDP if you love DVD. I have never seen *any* stand-alone DVDP surpass a good BDP playing DVD. By "good" BDP I mean among the best, which luckily are not that expensive (in the audio scheme of things). Totally ignore this comment if you don't have an HDMI TV... I mostly watch DVDs too, but I have ~500 BDs as well so I'm not totally out of it in that regard.

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