Systems and methods for content playback and recording

A method comprising:

• using a computer to perform the steps of:
• reading media content from a recorded medium, the media content being subdivided on the recorded medium into one or more cells, each cell comprising a plurality of sectors, wherein reading the media content comprises:
• in response to encountering an unreadable sector, incrementing a bad sector counter for a current cell containing the bad sector;
• in response to encountering a readable sector, clearing the bad sector counter;
• and
• in response to the bad sector counter exceeding a determined threshold value:
• marking the current cell as a bad cell, such that subsequent copying of the current cell is not attempted;
• and
• skipping to a next cell to continue reading the media content;
• and
• concurrently with reading the media content:
• decrypting the media content using a first key;
• reencrypting the media content using a second key;
• copying the reencrypted media content, not including cells that have been marked as a bad cell, to a storage device;
• decrypting the copied media content using the second key;
• and
• outputting the decrypted media content to a display device.

A system comprising:

• a reader component to read encrypted media content from a recorded medium, the encrypted media content being subdivided on the recorded medium into one or more cells, each cell comprising a plurality of sectors;
• a bad sector counter, comprising a processor couple to memory, to track bad sectors in each cell, the bad sector counter configured to:
• increment the bad sector counter for the current cell in response to encountering an unreadable sector;
• and
• clear the bad sector counter for the current cell in response to encountering a readable sector;
• wherein in response to the bad sector counter exceeding a threshold value for a current cell, the reader component is configured to:
• mark the current cell as a bad cell, such that the reader component does not subsequently attempt to copy the current cell;
• and
• skip to a next cell to continue obtaining the encrypted media content;
• a security and licensing code stored on a memory device to:
• copy the encrypted media content, not including cells that have been marked as a bad cell;
• and
• reencrypt the copied encrypted media content using a secondary encryption key;
• a storage component to store the reencrypted media content in a storage device;
• the security and licensing module further to:
• decrypt the reencrypted media content stored in the storage device using the secondary encryption key to recover the encrypted media content;
• and
• decrypt the encrypted media content using a primary encryption key to recover decrypted media content;
• and
• a playback component to output the decrypted media content to a display device, wherein the obtaining, reencrypting, storing, decrypting, and outputting of the encrypted media content are performed concurrently for at least a portion of the encrypted media content.