New Blu-Ray Movies Not Playing on All Players

Remember when you could buy a movie or album and it would just work? The tape would play on your VCR, the record would play on your record player, the CD would play on your CD player and so on. Welcome to the new world of digital media, complicated by DRM. Although incompatibility issues were seen on a smaller scale with DVD, this is a case of discs produced to Blu-ray spec and not playing on existing Blu-ray players.
From ars technica: With the new generation of HD DVD and Blu-ray video players, however, this is the norm: firmware updates are to be expected because the players are constantly evolving and are built around a DRM scheme (AACS) that can be "updated" in the event that a hack is found.
This latest twist on HD media is concerning new releases from Fox Home Video that will either not play on some models, giving you the red screen of death seen here, will play after an incredible two-minute load time, or stutter during playback. It is not yet confirmed if the source of the problem in BD-Java or BD+, a DRM scheme that is only now being added to discs produced from Fox studios. Although BD+ was always part of the Blu-ray spec, no studio had yet included it on any release.
This is not the first time there have been compatibility issues due to copy protection. Back in April, Sony released DVD titles with additional ARccOS copy protection files which caused playback problems on some players, including Sony players.
At any rate, Fox is blaming the incompatibility to manufacturers not including the latest firmware updates available for their players when they are sold and instructs consumers to visit their manufacturers website to find out how to install the latest firmware on their Blu-ray player. The playback problems are reported to mainly be on LG and Samsung Blu-ray players.
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