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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.