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CD/DVD Manufacturers To Support Windows Media
Anonymous Coward writes "Seattle P-I story on MS's latest move towards having their finger in every slice of the content pie. Oh, goody. 'Microsoft Corp. plans to announce today that four DVD makers will incorporate its Windows Media Audio technology into their players, enabling consumers to play CDs and DVDs they compiled using that technology. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, DVD makers Toshiba, Panasonic, Apex Digital Inc. and Shinco, a Chinese manufacturer, will announce plans to support Windows Media Format in some or all of their models this year, said Michael Aldridge, lead product manager for Microsoft's Windows digital media division.'" We've mentioned this before, but there are a few more details now.
Combine this with encrypted redbook tracks and wma media players, and viola...
BTW, it's voila, not viola. Viola in french means "has raped". But then again, it's still relevant... customers are getting raped by the Micro$oft monopoly left and right, PCs, gaming consoles, now CD/DVDs...
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[Shop] : "Yes sir, how can I help you?"
[cust] : "I can't play Terminator IV on my DVD Player!"
[Shop] : "Ah, do you have MSDRM v3.22 installed?"
[cust] : "Erm, in ENGLISH?!?!"
[Shop] : "If you go home, bring in your DVD player, and then leave it here for a week, we'll load the update that you need to play the DVD..."
[cust] : "Erm, OK then. But why does it need an update?"
[Shop] : "Some stupid kids broke the code or something like that..."
[cust] : "Oh dear. Well, thanks. I'll bring in my player later..."
Much time passes...
[cust] : "Here you go, please do that update thingy..."
[Shop] : "Sure thing. That'll be £49.99 please..."
[cust] : (loud and repetitive expletives)
... until they put "Active Scripting" in DVD players and set-top boxes and make them as exploitable as Outlook?
I agree! If it has to be one of these formats, windows media is the most stable and reliable.
I can just see my player running on REAL. It'd play have them movie and then terminate, only to make me power off and on my player before REAL will open again to play the rest of the movie!!!
Sorry, I think MS wins on this one.
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
Geek propaganda engine Slashdot posts it's 3,651st duplicate story. Come on guys, it's a new year... isn't there anything new to talk about yet?
Gates: Are you pondering, what I'm pondering Steve?
Balmer: Yeah, but why would we want to give away Windows XP for free?
Gates: No you idiot, we will sell our awful, proprietry media format to DVD vendors!
omg that's horrible... you want a spell checker too!
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