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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lockridge" data-source="post: 3431965" data-attributes="member: 43850">I'm wondering if anyone else out there has had this experience.Over the last month I've noticed that when I rent some movies they simply will not play in my DVD player.  Now I've cleaned the player and the disks with no effect.  And other DVDs play just fine.  (I have a Toshiba SD3800 made in July 2002 by the way ).So I spent some time tryting to figure out why Rocky Balboa, Casino Royale and Stranger than Fiction just won't play.I've even tried returning them to the store for a copy of the same movie.  Of course the other copies would not work either.Then it dawned on me that all of these movies have the Sony logo on the disk.  I went to Sony's web site and although I immediately saw ads for these very movies on the site there was no mention of any problems with them.I then went back to Blockbuster and FutureShop (Canada's version of Best Buy) and asked the staff if they've had problems with these movies.The staff all gave me the standard responses of "clean the DVD player" or "maybe your DVD player is worn out".  I was then told that people return movies all the time but its usually for one of these two reasons.I found this response interesting because it suggested that I should buy a new DVD player even though mine works perfectly on any but Sony movies released in the last month.I then went back online and found numerous articles about Sony's draconian copy protection methods including methods that hurt ordinary consumers.Here's my theory: - Sony has just started using a new copy protection feature that won't play on all older machines even though they are legitimate. - Since there is no news of this anywhere, people who return movies are told that their DVD players are old and need to be replaced.  Would anyone else have even noticed that the problem is just with Sony? - A lot of people are going out and buying new players because they think their machine is getting old. - Would Sony care about this extra expense that legitimate customers are going through?Another kick in the pants for me is that my receiver is a few years old too and has limited inputs for surround signals - I won't go into detail but since not many DVD players are sold with optical audio outputs, I might have to buy a new receiver with my new DVD player.So, any comments?  Am I just paranoid or have others noticed that they can't rent a Sony movie lately if they have an older machine?Thanks for letting me rant.</blockquote>

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