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Microsoft Codec Required For Blu-Ray Players

Posted by timothy on from the on-every-corner dept.

dmayle writes "According to ExtremeTech, the Blu-Ray Disc Association (which consists of many big names, like Sony, Philips, and Pioneer) has decided to mandate Microsoft's VC-1 video codec. With HD-DVD incorporating Microsoft's patented video codecs as well, what will happen to the state of media players on Open Source? (Here's an additional source for Blu-Ray info)."

13 of 490 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No thanks Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-07 -22&res=l

  2. My prediction by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Funny

    With HD-DVD incorporating Microsoft's patented video codecs as well, what will happen to the state of media players on Open Source?

    My prediction is this, someone will reverse engineer the codec and release it a la DeCSS and everyone will have it. Microsoft will try to shut it down and there will be T shirts with the code printed on them.

    LK

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  3. Re:What will happen? by JaxGator75 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I never even really wanted those damn cookies until she put the cookie jar on top of the fridge...

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  4. Blu-Ray Jon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess DVD-Jon is up for a new nick!

  5. Re:Don't jump to conclusions just yet by mrtroy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't jump to conclusions just yet

    Damnit, you tell me now, after I already bought the mat...

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  6. Re:They're doing what now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its like, a bunch of 1s and 0s that make computer stuff work.

  7. Re:the Man is out to own us! by Threni · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Orwell was right... First it starts with computers... Then to home
    > appliances... Next to the very cable TV we watch...

    I hope you still have the receipt for that 'Orwell' book you're paraphrasing...

  8. bad joke by 5m477m4n · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good thing I gots my Blue Blockers!

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  9. But it's so new it's still copyrighted! by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    People misquote Orwell's 1984, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Huxley's Brave New World because the books are too new (being published on or after 1923) for people to find the time and money to get through them.

  10. Re:Does not matter by clarkcox3 · · Score: 2, Funny
    (I specify "family movie" because kids under 13 can't read subtitles.)

    Wow, you must know some very developmentally challenged 13 year olds. If a 13 year old cannot read, (s)he has bigger problems than not being able to watch foreign movies.

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  11. Re:here we go again by Mateito · · Score: 5, Funny
    Do we already make the whole 1% ?

    I remember reading a "report" in a "men's entertainment" magazine that gave the statistic that 2% of men could orally pleasure themselves.

    If these numbers are accurate, that means for every person using Linux, there are 2 guys who can suck their own dicks.

    I wouldn't call that penetration.

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  12. Read what you quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You wrote: "He lost, by the way.", and then you paste a text that ends with "Fogerty won the lawsuit". Make your mind, did Fogerty win or lose the lawsuit?

  13. Re:MSFT media domination begins? by Dever · · Score: 2, Funny

    any bands that the RIAA cares about can most likely fit their whole catalog on a frickin 256MB thumb drive.

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