Oppo confirms BDP-103/105 will be last Blu-ray players without online activation

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Originally Posted by Ruined

Player internet capabilities are mandatory requirement for a UHD player, as they are a mandatory requirement of AACS2.0 which in turn is a mandatory requirement of the BDA for UHD.

If you purchase a new disc with online activation and try to play it on a player without an internet connection that has never activated that disc, it will not play and you will get a certificate error message. If the player was previously connected to the internet and you played the disc previously to download the certificate onto the player's memory, then it should play when disconnected.

So they basically got rid of region coding and introduced much stricter DRM controls, seems like one step forward and two steps back I hope this is something that is rarely (if ever) implemented by the studios.