In a recent interview with HDBeat, Andy Parsons (Pioneer Electronics Senior VP and Blu-ray Disc Association spokesman), stated that movie studios are looking at ways to charge for managed copies of BD titles.
Managed copy is optional for hardware companies and if you have a player and you are prepared to have a device that can undertake a transaction function, meaning you are going to pay someone some money to make that copy. I think a lot of people may think managed copy means free copy. That is not the case at all, but if you are going to say I would like to make a coy of this to my portable viewing device and there is a dollar amount associated with that, then you have to have a hardware device that can make that a simple transaction. If you are in your living room and you say I would like to watch this on my portable media player, how do I do that. I would have a user interface that I go into and I would I say I would like to go onto a studios site for the particular disc and give them my credit card number and pay a fee to do that.
This interview is a must read as it has a lot of insightful information on managed copy, BD+ and dual-format players. If you'd like to check it out, head on over to HDBeat.
