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The latest effort which will stop hackers from copying high-definition movie DVDs has resulted in some inconvenience for early adopters of the technology: Some machines won’t play the latest discs. The movie and consumer-electronics industries have struggled to stop hackers from copying the newest generation of discs, despite early claims that the technology would outwit would-be pirates. Steve Feldstein, a spokesman for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, said both HD-DVD and Blu-ray players occasionally have needed updates to play new discs, and urged customers to monitor manufacturer Web sites that distribute the fixes, known as firmware updates. “When these sort of glitches happen, they’re resolved in…a week or two, once people realize they do need to use the firmware upgrades,” he said.
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