Microsoft Code in Every HD-DVD Player

Neophytus writes "The DVD Forum steering group has given preliminary backing to Microsoft's VC-9 codec along with H.264 and MPEG-2 as mandatory playback modes for HD-DVD players. Having this technology, the most fundamental part of Windows Media Player 9, in every new DVD player could well give Microsoft major leverage into the Cable and Satellite TV markets where currently MPEG2 dominates. The approval is pending an update in licencing terms and other conditions within 60 days."

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Re:what are the licensing terms?

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> Python
> A very clean, versatile language. Will probably
> replace VB for custom RAD in the next decade.

Are you completely deluded? Python replace VB? The fact that it's clean and versatile have nothing to do with it: a language that delineates code blocks with whitespace indentation and a "pure" OO language syntax, replacing a pseudo event driven/linear BASIC derivitive? On what grounds is that statement based? Certainly not a researched one: VB may well have been designed as a prototyping language, but it ceased to be used as one (if it ever was) a long, long time ago.

Perhaps you're trolling for the sheer fun of it. Post some real-world reasoning behind this. You might start using Python instead of VB in the next ten years but I can hardly just see Joe VB'er picking up ActiveState Python -- we're talking Windows platform here -- throwing away a full WYSIWYG design system, throwing away the interactive / edit&continue debugging system and rewriting a 3-tier transactional system to slot into MTS/COM+ services with a SQL backend, wired into ASP at the front; in Python. Yes. That's going to happen soon. Not.

And no, IANAVBP (I am not a VB programmer), but I've been coding 22 years, and I've had chance to use it [VB] over the years. My languages of choice are Tcl/C/C#/x86 and Java.

Anyhow, my 2 cents. I await your justification.

- Oisin