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Father of DVD Interviewed

Posted by michael on from the hard-disks-the-formidable-enemy dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "Interview with Koji Hase. Talks about some of the interesting history behind the DVD format, copyright protection, and competing formats for audio."

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  1. Now THAT's the attitude I like! by Cyberdyne · · Score: 2, Funny
    Obsolescence will remain forever a problem, Hase warns, as long as companies continue to take proprietary approaches to home networking and automation.

    Somehow, I can't quite see that quote coming from the average corporate suit, where "proprietary" is regarded as a feature not a flaw...

  2. Origins of region coding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    "When at midnight we finished, we must have been pretty drunk but I said: 'I will develop the system and you will give me the content, because without the content it is nothing'."
    When asked for the reasons behind the region encoding, Hase said:
    "I'm afraid I was very drunk at the time."