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DVD Player Chipsets To Support Windows Media Files

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shaking-the-devil's-hand dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to this article in EETimes, Microsoft previewed its next generation Windows Media technology, and said that chipset makers that account for 90% of home DVD players will be including the technology in their upcoming chipsets. I hope the various courts looking into Microsoft's monopoly examine this closely, there is a lot of potential for Microsoft to extend its monopoly here. The next logical step would be for them to pay movie studios to produce Windows Media format movies that are available before or cost less than regular DVD format, that is, if they are made available in regular DVD format at all! This would also be a neat way for studios to force us all to upgrade our existing DVD players use the now-cracked CSS." Ton van der Liet points out this article on ZDNet, writing: "Microsoft touts the advantages of Windows Media, such as longer playback. Wasn't MPEG-4 supposed to do this? And aren't the newest Windows Media codecs based on a draft of the MPEG-4 standard?"

13 of 407 comments (clear)

  1. cheese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sometimes i like putting cheese on my sausages early in the morning...hmmmmm

  2. Re:Long runtime, low quality; HDTV the real taget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is this insightful? He didn't read the article. Don't you have to read the article to get insightful moderation?

  3. Re:I DO NOT want WMP technology in my DVD player.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you keep thinking that. They probably don't give two shits about slashsot or what you think.

  4. David Copperfield visited slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For a brief period around 9:50AM EST, this story vanished and reappeared a few minutes later. This can only be explained by magic. Since we know Harry Potter is a fictional storybook character, we can assume this was not his doing. David Copperfield; however, has made buildings disappear in front of a live audience and on TV, so it must be real(tm) magic that he uses. We can therefore come to the conclusion that Slashdot was visited by David Copperfield. What was the meaning of this visit? We may never know.

  5. Where did it go? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where did this story go? It dissapeared for a while. It's back now. Weird.

  6. Re:Stand Up For Your Beliefs and Rights - Use your by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow. -- James Dean

  7. Re:But... by tRoll+with+Butter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think we'll have a little trouble this time trying to take over its name (after it fails in the marketplace) for use on an alternative compression format. Besides, who'd use a codec called "Windows Media" anyway? It sounds so un-1337.

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  8. Re:I DO NOT want WMP technology in my DVD player.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You dumbass, he was being sarcastic.

  9. Re:mods never read thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this post was moderated out-of-context. it's funny!!

  10. Re:rinoid now confirms: *BSD is dying by ethereal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that was subjective hyperbole :)

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  11. goax.tex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yupp, The First Pooozt

  12. I want to set things on fire. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I want to set your DVD hardware on fire.

    - The guy who wants to set things on fire.

    1. Re:I want to set things on fire. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      stupid fucking moderators with no sense of humor... the parent was CLEARLY FLAMEBAIT!!! May you rot in the boring section of hell.