Sony fixes DVD ARccOS issues

Quote: "Future buyers of Sony DVDs should be warned however that ARccOS is known to have compatibility problems with some models of Sony, Toshiba and Harman Kardon DVD players."

Just lovely!! Sony DVDs are known to have compatibility problems with some models of Sony players!!

Gotta love it.

(Sony has received complaints on less than one thousandth of one percent of affected discs shipped)

Why would we bother calling outsourced tech support that can't help us? Just take it back to the store. Sony manipulating numbers again. I can hear them saying: "Don't worry, it's not that big of a deal..."

LMAO!! I wonder why they bother when ARccOS is so readily cracked these days.

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Future buyers of Sony DVDs should be warned however that ARccOS is known to have compatibility problems with some models of Sony, Toshiba and Harman Kardon DVD players.

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well at least they are going to replace them

but this shouldn't have happened to begin with

I called the number. You (at least I got)get a kind gentleman/woman on the other line who speak clearly and was easily understood. I asked him what was needed to get another copy of 007 Casino Royale. I was told that besides general shipping information such as name, address, etc. that they also required the UPC label of the package. After that they would supposedly send on out to me free of charge.

So, arccos is buggy. Was buggy when it was farking up the dvd structure on The Forgotten. It will be cracked in due time. I just wish LightningUK! was still updating his fine tool DVD Decrypter.

Sony needs to just stick to putting out hardware. Customer service and software have never really been their strong points.

I just was told earlier that my new copy of 007 Casino Royale would be sent out priority mail and arrive to me within 3-5 business days. I was actually very pleased with Sony's tech support, very kind people. Im happy.

The question is can they be cracked still?? Probablly even if they updated them its possible.

I'd say almost definately. The likes of AnyDVD and DVD Fab Decrypter seem to get the updates out almost as quick as ARccOS gets upgraded. This form of copy protection is only really effective against the occasional opportunist copier. If a "professional" pirate really wants to copy something, he'll find a way to do it eventually.

Interesting, as I was beginning to believe this was a problem with my stand alone players and not the discs. I have had problems with previous releases. Being huge James Bond fans, we did purchase Casino Royale, but did not experience any problems playing the discs in our Toshiba. However, what happens, if years down the road, we replace our player and discover a problem?

Btw, I've been down that road of asking for my non-working legitimate discs to be replaced and was accused of pirating. I see no offical news release on the Sony site.

Originally posted by PeaInAPod:

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... I was told that besides general shipping information such as name, address, etc. that they also required the UPC label of the package. After that they would supposedly send on out to me free of charge.

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