b e a r d
kind of crazy that a manufacturer can just "upgrade" firmware and remove features. then encrypt said firmware to make it harder to downgrade.
i just downgraded my blu-ray drive's firmware so it can now play UHD discs.
oh great and now i'm just finding out that you can't even play the discs with powerdvd. why the fuck is playing blurays on pc so fucking hard? i know it's a more niche thing to want to do but it's so annoying that it's THIS difficult, nigh impossible, when blu-ray and UHD have been a thing for so long.
@beardalaxy
I asked dad to buy me an external Blue ray player for birthday.
I later bought a single disk, only to find, that it is LITERALLY IN A LEGAL GRAY ZONE for me to download the keys needed to decode and play that disk.
What kind of bullshit is that? I WANTED to be a consoomer, and this has to be the dumbest limitation I have ever seen.
@beardalaxy
Seriously. I get adverts. I get DRM. I get making a generally horrible product. But I have never seen any other product being sold with the assumption, that it's illegal to use it. 
It also only affects legit customers