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I'm trying to watch a new blu ray disc I bought and the ps3 is telling me I need to renew the encryption key to watch the disc?

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There are series of problem in ps3 which can be solved without much technical knowledge ........ your problem belong to that so dont worry i will give you the link to download the ps3 repair guide that will help you a lot....



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1. Turn on your PS3 first. If there's a game disc in it, eject it first so that you can get to the main menu.
2. Go to Settings>System Update and then select Update via Internet, and then press the X button on your controller to confirm. And the update will start and you'll need to follow the on-screen instructions to finish the upgrade.
You can check on this article which will show you how to renew encryption key both online and offline:
How to Renew PS3 Encryption Key to Play the Latest Blu-ray Discs on it

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The solution is easy if you can get your PS3 to connect to the Internet. The PS3 needs a software update to renew the AACS encryption key. After the update you'd be able to watch BD on your PS3. If there's nothing you can do about the PS3's software, you can do something about the Blu-ray movie you want to watch, like converting it into a ordinary MP4 video and put it in a USB drive. As you know, you can directly play an MP4 video from a USB drive on PS3, that's something you can do to get around this problem. Check out how you can rip your Blu-ray movie to MP4 in here: How to Rip and Convert Blu ray to MP4 with Blu ray to MP4 Converter

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AACS (Advanced Access Control System) is a copyright-protection technology that is used on Blu-ray Discs. The copyrighted content is protected by setting an encryption key on both the disc and the device used to play the disc.
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go to settings then system update and it will update it to the latest firmware or u can dload it from the playstation website, this will probably solve ur problem :D

ohh and just to clarify sumthin...what type of movie r u playing, a dvd? and if so is it PAL or NTSC. if u hav a PAL ps3 and u are trying to play an NTSC movie on it, then sadly it wont work...

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