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HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-clearing-landfill-space-for-dvd dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Proprietary codecs in a standard are nothing ne by Snaller · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just a reminder: Microsoft is Microsoft.

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