BBC breaks down the new DRM rules for Blu-ray recorders
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kcmurphy88 @ Apr 17th 2009 4:45PM
Guess I'll just have to stick with bittorrent.
Kyle B @ Apr 17th 2009 4:53PM
The media conglomerates were right all along, DRM does make today's technology simple.
paul-engadget @ Apr 17th 2009 5:38PM
yes, DRM is simple - it simply stops things working!
EatingPie @ Apr 18th 2009 2:05AM
No no, if HD-DVD had won this never would have happened... because HD-DVD never produced a single burner! Ever! Problem solved! Multi-format just looks for reasons to blame Blu-ray for everything. Gotta let it go some time, my friend.
Now what I don't understand is why this WON'T be available in the US. I have a DTCP compliant D-VHS deck that records HDTV over firewire from the CableCo's MPEG2 TS. Blu-ray with AACS can do exactly the same thing... indeed that seems to be exactly what that diagram shows! So what's the holdup??
-Pie
EatingPie @ Apr 18th 2009 2:10AM
Oops my above comment was supposed to go below Multi-Format-Mayhem.
I think paul-engadget's comment should be the caption on the image: "DRM is simple!"
-Pie
Multi-format-mayhem @ Apr 17th 2009 6:22PM
I hate to say 'I told you so....' but some of us did.
Repeatedly and in large part for these very reasons.
Blu-ray really was the dumb choice for HD movies on disc for the mass-market.
Thanks to this kind of stupidity, wrong, short-sighted and greed-based nonsense it's creators have merely guaranteed that it will never truly move into the mainstream.
Enjoy it for the short-lived niche product it is.
The next one will be along shortly.
FNG @ Apr 17th 2009 6:35PM
uhhh what part about about this has to do with "the war" the problem here is drm on to of non drm ota broadcasts. if hd-dvd would have won, it very well would have been the same. storage medium is not the issue here.
Kyle B @ Apr 17th 2009 11:39PM
What the ***** are you talking about? The storage medium is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, "HD-DVD" is not the preferred nomenclature. HD DVD, please.
Multi-format-mayhem @ Apr 18th 2009 9:39AM
Superficially you are both correct. But only superficially.
The problem you have is that Blu-ray was always intended to be part of the 'security' wet dream and it's eventual win & adoption was taken to signal a green light for much more of all that BS.
Naturally you can choose not to believe this if you like but nevertheless you cannot deny that Blu-ray was always supposed to be adaptive and capable of fitting in with an ever tighter and general 'security' environment.
HD DVD shared a couple of Blu-ray's so-called 'security' features but nothing like all of them and certainly nothing along the lines of Blu-ray's BD+ or watermarking.
Nick @ Apr 18th 2009 8:40AM
Why the FUCK is nonencrypted TV being forced onto DRM? I could almost understand if this were HBO or Pay per view or something like that, but regular TV? And the entire point is to stop people from putting the content onto the internet?
Have these people never SEEN the pirate bay?
This is just going to push people more towards such things, because illegal or not, the pirate bay doesn't put shit like that onto people.