Slashdot Mirror
Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back
QT writes "Ars Technica has been following this week's next-gen DVD dramas closely. First, there's extensive coverage of the
reasons why Microsoft backed HD-DVD, which was primarily inspired by mandatory support for
copying discs to computers. The BDA, however, countered with an attack on Microsoft's reasons, and
Microsoft returned fire. Richard E. Doherty, Microsoft's head of the media entertainment technology convergence group, said that 50GB Blu-ray disc are in fact many years away. Is
MS playing games, or is Sony misrepresenting just how far along BD-ROM really is?" From the article: "HD DVD is proven to deliver 30GB capacity today, with the potential to deliver even greater capacity. The 50GB claim for BD-ROM discs is unproven and will not be available for many years to come, based on discussions with major Japanese and US replicators. Replicators not only do not have test lines running, they cannot even pre-order the equipment to begin evaluating this disc. They cannot judge the cost of these discs, or even whether they can be manufactured at all. Major replicators can mass manufacture 30GB HD DVD discs today and it's well understood that these discs will cost significantly less to manufacture than the lower-capacity 25GB BD discs."
We previously discussed this topic when the announcement came out.
Sony's products are cheap, break, lousy construction and the most properietary of anything i've ever seen. This comes from everything in PDA's to car stereo's and home theaters.
PS2 was a hype, PS3 no don't will be..cheap receivers that never meat rates wattage
How did this get modded up to +3 interesting? It's not even readable!
Good grief man, take an english class! How do you expect people to take your argument seriously when you can barely even communicate it?
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
--James Madison
so blu-ray has java. for better interactivity...
is there ANYONE who likes the interactive menus on the dvds?
i hate them.
sometimes i even have problems with finding the right menu option for playing the movie!
am i the only one who'd like to simply have a button on the remote-control called PLAY_THE_MOVIE ?
why are there special (and different on every dvd) menus to set up the language & subtitles, when you can select them with the remote control while watching the movie?