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Industry Agrees On Next Gen Unified DVD Standard

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-all-agree dept.

scsirob writes "According to this press release the DVD recording industry will end the DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM mess and standardise on a new technology called 'Blue Ray'. Blue lasers are used to record up to 27 GB on each side of the DVD. This initiative is backed by all major players in the industry. The article contains many technical details." Several other people noted that the BBC has coverage as well. Yah for non-company specific industry standards.

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  1. fist post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oops i did it again

  2. What the hell is wrong with Slashdot!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let us assume the fact that posts are showing up in reverse order is simply another bug resulting from shoddy half-ass open sores programming, and NOT INTENTIONAL. This is what happens when dirty GNU hippies smoke too much weed before coding.

    1. Re:What the hell is wrong with Slashdot!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hehe, ofcouse it's was modded down in a few secs since most of slashdot's readers are poor weed smoking open source hippies. :-)

      GNU/Censorship GNU/rules GNU/on GNU/slashdot.

  3. Anyone wanna bet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Give you best guesses:

    1: How many open source companies do you think will have gone under during Februari 2002?

    2: How many dot-com companies do you think will have gone under during Februari 2002?

  4. Statement of Income for DrKoop.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    As promised, here it is!:

    Year Revenue Income
    ----------------
    2000 10648 -121214
    1999 9431 -56135
    1998 43 -9083
    1997 0 -622

  5. Re:Flip side of coin by DarkEdgeX · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I'm assuming the 'unique ID' is written to a normally non-writable part of the disc (for Blu-ray writers/burners), so yes, this is part of it I imagine (the player/reader would validate that this unique ID existed and was properly initialized). The other side of it that I can see is media watermarking using the 'unique ID' as a key to encrypt/mark with. Watermarking, if done properly (and I'm not claiming to be an expert), would be irreversable and potentially trackable (ie: Joe Nobody buys 'The Fifth Element' on a shiny new Blu-Ray disc from his local Fred Meyer/Hastings/Sam Goody. Joe Nobody rips the movie and encodes it into a semi-high quality DiVX (or some other format, VCD, etc). The watermark survives the recompression, but Joe Nobody doesn't know this and distributes it on Gnutella/FreeNet/eDonkey2000. MPAA Lawyer downloads enough of the movie off of one of these file sharing utilities and uses an application to 1) extract the watermark, 2) correlate the watermark with the store the disc was sold at and 3) identify the individual to whom the disc was sold. MPAA lawyer dispatches law enforcement to Joe Nobody's place of residence.).

    It's disconcerting, to say the least. And this is definately an all-new format, nothing in the press release or BBC article seem to indicate that the discs will work in existing DVD drives, so this is the studios/MPAA's "second chance" to get copy protection implemented correctly.. I'm sure after the DeCSS beating they got, they're definately looking at every possibility they have...

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  6. The obvious uses by Yankovic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So much porn..... aghghghghghghgh.