[Vivtek]

When will they admit that they killed DVDs themselves due to their fear of piracy? The more copy protection they put on them, the less likely any given DVD was likely to work. In the 90's we rented a lot of DVDs. By the time Netflix came along, we finally gave up even trying DVDs from the video store, instead watching whatever drivel was on Netflix only because we had a reasonable expectation that it would work all the way through without a microscratch triggering the anti-piracy circuitry.

[orbitur]

Huh? I bought in to DVDs very early and I've either owned or used many DVD players over the last decade, and I've never, not once, had an issue with DRM preventing me from using the disc in a dedicated player.

The only situation I can think of is that you bought or moved your DVDs from a different "region." And the number of people actually dealing with that is so small it's not even worth mentioning.

Perhaps you meant Blu-Ray? While issues are perhaps more common, they're not common enough to drive people away. BR's sales problems are due to high cost and poor timing to market.

[Vivtek]

No, DVDs. It got worse with every DVD player we bought, until we finally just gave up on DVDs entirely.

[tsotha]

>By the time Netflix came along, we finally gave up even trying DVDs from the video store...

I think this is a bigger deal than efforts to curtail piracy. If nothing else it's just more convenient to stream a video than to go to the store and buy/rent it.

In theory they could make up the difference by charging the streaming services enough to make up the difference, but I don't think the market supports a higher price.

[wmf]

YMMV. In my life I've had one DVD that failed to play due to scratching and I have no way of knowing whether CSS contributed to that or not.

[artsrc]

If you want to find some DVD's that won't play due to scratches then I recommend that you borrow some children's DVD's from your local library.