Sony Blu-ray PC Drive Won’t Play Movies?

How on earth does a company release a $800 Blu-Ray drive for your PC that doesn’t play Blu-ray movies? You are kidding me, right?

Bautista says that one of two reasons for this is the fact that commercial content is encrypted with High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which can only be decrypted using a HDCP-compliant graphics card that offers DVI or HDMI connections. Since there are currently no PCs for sale offering graphics chips that support HDCP, this isn't yet possible.