Microsoft Xbox One Can’t Play Recordable Blu-ray (BD-R) Due To DRM
HDTVtest: "Last week, we reported a frame rate mismatch issue with the Xbox One’s TV integration feature in the UK and other 50Hz regions, which leads to judder when trying to watch television broadcast through the console’s HDMI input. To investigate this problem, as well as assess the media playback competency of the Microsoft Xbox One, we got our hands on a retail unit to carry out further indepth testing. The full review will be up soon, but in the meantime we’ve found another issue that deserves an article of its own.
One of the first things we did was to try and run our custom
HDTVTest test pattern disc on the machine, but we discovered that the Xbox One does not play Blu-ray movie (BDMV) content from recordable BD-R discs. We tried both single and dual layer discs of various brands and types to rule out media incompatibility, and none would play. This is not the fault of the drive, but is a designed-in software limitation – one of the stringent DRM policies that apparently has made it into the finished product. Microsoft’s own
support site mentions that:
The Blu-ray player on the Xbox One console only supports mastered Blu-ray discs and DVDs.
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