Cinavia is an analog watermarking and steganography system developed by Verance. No matter recoded or recorded, the Blu-ray discs still cannot get rid of Cinavia protection, which can be identified through professional devices. There are two interactive elements during the protection. One is the watermark embedded in audio-video content, the other is the Cinavia enabled player that will detect the watermark. When media with the watermark embedded in the audio track is played on a system with Cinavia detection, its firmware will detect the watermark and check whether the device it is running on is authorized for that watermark or not. If the device is not authorized, it will present a message indicating that the media is not authorized to play on the device.
Here I introduce a good solution to the playback problems of the Cinavia protected Blu-ray Disc. Mac Blu-ray Player is the an all-in-one Blu-ray DVD media player that can play all media formats existing today: Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray ISO, DVD, VideoCD, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, MP4, MPEG, RMVB, MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3, etc. With up to 1080p and DTS 5.1/7.1 supported, Mac Blu-ray Player can play Blu-ray Disc in super high audiovisual quality.
Here list some discs that contain Cinavia protection and players that have detectors for it.
Blu-ray discs:
| Title | Studio | Release | Cinavia |
| The Losers | Warner Brothers | Jul 20， 2010 | English track only |
| The Karate Kid | Sony | Oct 5， 2010 | most of the tracks |
| The Other Guys | Sony | Dec 14， 2010 | English track only |
| Resident Evil: Afterlife 2D | Sony | Sony， Dec 28， 2010 | English track only |
| Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D | Sony | Sony， Dec 28， 2010 | English track only |
| Salt | Sony | Dec 21， 2010 | English track only |
| The Social Network | Sony | Jan 11， 2011 | English track only |
| Takers | Sony | Jan 18， 2011 | English track only |
DVD
| Title | Studio | Release | Cinavia |
| Takers | Sony Pictures | Jul 18， 2011 | English track only |
| Burlesque | Sony Pictures | Mar 1， 2011 | English track only, US non-combo release only |
| The Tourist | Sony Pictures | Mar 22， 2011 | English track only, NTSC release only |
| The Roommate | Sony Pictures | May 17， 2011 | English track only |
| Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night | 20th Century Fox | Jul 26, 2011 | English track only |
| Zookeeper | Sony Pictures | Oct 11， 2011 | English track only |
| Bad Teacher | Sony Pictures | Oct 18， 2011 | English track only, except DE/FR/IT/NL release |
| Project X | Warner Bros | Jun 19， 2012 | English track only |
| Wrath of the Titans | Warner Bros | Jun 26， 2012 | English track only |
| Rock of Ages | Warner Bros | Oct 9， 2012 | English track only |
| The Campaign | Warner Bros | Oct 30， 2012 | English track only |
| Frankenweenie | Disney | Jan 8， 2013 | all, but descriptive service track |
Blu-ray/DVD/media players integrated with Cinavia:
| Manufacturer | Model & Firmware |
| Macgo | Mac Blu-ray Player (upd: 1.1v or higher) |
| CyberLink | PowerDVD 12 (upd: 1905c or higher) |
| Corel | WinDVD 10/11 [NOT ACTIVATED YET] |
| Nero | TotalMedia Theatre 5 (upd: 172 or higher) |
| Arcsoft | TotalMedia Theatre 5 (upd: 172 or higher) |
| Sony | Playstation 3 (fw: 3.10 or higher) |
| Sony | BDP-S185/BDP-S186 (fw: M09.R.0033 or higher) BDP-S390 (fw: M11.R.0147 or higher) |
| Sony | BDP-S280/BDP-S480/BDP-S485/BDP-S580/BDP-S780 (fw: M07.R.0615 or higher) |
| Sony | BDP-SX1000 (fw: F01.R.0102 or higher) |
| Sony | BDP-BX39/BDP-BX59/BDP-S590 (fw: M11.R.0320 or higher) |
| Samsung | BD-Dxxxx Series BD-Exxxx Series |
| Philips | BDP5200, BDP6000 (fw: 1.42 or higher) |
| Pioneer | BDP-V6000 |
| Marantz | UD5005 UD7006 |
| LG | BDP550 (fw: 8.31.283.C) |
| Denon | DBP-1611UD (fw: MCU Ver 100/07.04.2011) [NOT CONFIRMED] DBP-2012UDCI |
| OPPO | BDP-103 DBP-105 |
For more information about the functional Mac Blu-ray Player software, please visit http://www.macblurayplayer.com
What’s that even supposed to mean? “The best playback of Cinavia protected Bluray discs”? If a player simply ignores Cinavia – that’s a good thing for the consumer, cause its *only* job is to shut down a movie if it detects the cinavia watermark! So if you support Cinavia (which is still not clear from this blogpost!), how can your playback solution be “the best” if it shuts down a movie with Cinavia?