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HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like HD-DVD has won the latest round in the Blu-ray/HD-DVD format war. Toshiba announced today that 4 major studios (Warner,Paramount,Universal, and New Line) have endorsed the HD-DVD format. Toshiba also said it will use AACS for content protection, which is basically just CSS with better crypto & no ability to recover from security failures."
Alginate the Movie Industry
Alginate? You want to cover them in medical dressings? Or possibly make them thicker and more tasty....
> Anyone know which one the porn industry is backing? I'll put my money on that format.
I don't think I want to see porn in high definition. Seeing all the blemishes, pimples, and imperfections will detract, not enhance, the experience.
I started at that for a full twenty seconds thinking, "What the hell kind of crypto is involved with cascading stylesheets?"
--- Ban humanity.
How many times are we going to be forced to buy Star Wars? Laser Disk, VHS twice (original and updated versions), DVD, and sometime in the future HD DVD. And by that time it will be a 6 movie set. Lucas sure does dig deep in the pockets.
Nah. I think he wants to take dental impressions.
"In the U.S., the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits unauthorized circumvention. Outside the U.S., however, many jurisdictions only have conventional copyright laws that only protect creative works. Normal decryption keys do not include any obvious creative element."
That explains a lot piracy. Hollywood seems to have a lack of creative works as of late, so it must be OK to copy and distribute those. And any of the truly creative works will only play an my region 1 DVD player if I "pirate" them.
all they need to do is release a super-duper special edition hd-dvd 'lord of the rings'. instant market penetration.
...When HiDef dvd's become standardized and popular, I'll purchase movies again...
When the next SUPERDEF on molecular cube storage (no moving parts) comes out 5 years after that, you'll have to buy your collection again. Another 5 years later, they'll have MEGADEF on atomic quantum storage devices (100 Terabytes on a chip) and you'll have to buy your collection again. Another 5 years later.....
Don't you see the game yet? Hollywood and the electronics manufacturers want to stay in business. They will be doing this at your expense again and again and again.
All theory is gray
Ah, you're taking the biblical definition of evil:
"...and the Lord shall smite down with furious anger those who produce cheap DVD players without a valid patent licence"
Must be the New *NEW* International Version. It's almost as bad as LOTR, this. You buy one version and five minutes later they bring another one out with added fire and brimstone.
One thing that keeps bugging me: 405nm is violet, not blue.
But I guess there's no fun marketoid way to abuse the word "violet", espeically without it sounding like "violent"
Even if they ignored that and called it Violet-Ray or something outright, they'd probably worry about losing sales to people who think it'll give them skin cancer.
I just want to know how long it'll be before mass production of these laser diodes make violet laser pointers easy to find and afford. =)
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