Samsung Blu-ray players reportedly have stopped working
Samsung Blu-ray players seem to be failing for several users, and nobody is sure what the issue is, ZDNet detailed. A few Users report their Blu-Ray players stuck out in a continuous reboot circumference when they're turned on, others detailed hearing a humming sound as though the device is attempting to recognize the disk, however, as in actually there's no disk in the machine.
A few devices are closing down not long after turning on, and still, different users also report their devices have gotten unfriendly to change and entering new commands. The issues don't seem to be being bound to one specific model.
On Samsung's community center, a few users set the issues began with a firmware update, yet ZDNet says this doesn't seem, by all accounts, to be the situation, proposing the feasible guilty party was a terminated SSL declaration the Blu-Ray players used to interface with Samsung's servers.
Samsung didn't quickly react to the requests for suggestions Saturday. The agents are telling the users that the organization is trying to reach the problems faced by the users.
In actuality, this isn’t just restricted to features that require the Internet but is preventing people from playing their physical movie discs in their physical movie disc player.
It’s also not even restricted to new discs with require you to download a new DRM scheme- it sounds like the player just won’t play anything at all, including old discs with old DRM, because of an expired SSL certificate that won’t let the players connect with Samsung’s servers.
They’ve basically created an expensive physical media that requires an Internet connection to the company’s servers or it won’t work at all, even in a very basic way.
Does this thing even have some sort of a user-beneficial feature like being able to watch Netflix and other streaming services? Or is there entirely to update DRM and feed the company information on your viewing habits?
I guess it at least must provide them with an opportunity to patch bugs, but that could be done without all the rest of this stuff, with a fallback mode that allows people to put their movie disc in and press play even if it can’t find the Samsung server or the server doesn’t recognize it.
What happens when people buy it and never hook it up to the Internet? Does it work at all?
I’ve never owned a Blu-Ray player and doubt I ever will. This news did nothing to change my mind on that, obviously. Who wants to buy physical equipment and buy physical discs, in theory for keeps, and still have a company that can and will shut you down remotely if the device doesn’t check in with them on the Internet? What would happen if the server was shut down? How about if you are without a net (Either because it’s down or because you no longer have Internet)? Isn’t part of the point of something like this that you can use it when the Internet is down or when you are having trouble paying the bills, but the electric is still up and running? I guess you can’t use it in an isolated log cabin or even just a rural house that doesn’t have broadband access.
