Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Next-Gen DVDs

jZnat writes "Although we all know that Microsoft hates Blu-Ray, Bill Gates doesn't seem to like HD-DVD either. Primarily, it seems, because Mr. Gates believes media storage on hard drives is likely to be the default standard sooner rather than later. From the interview: 'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'"

Comments

Re:Is this the same Bill Gates?

[Junior J. Junior III]

Bill G says it's anti consumer not because it's anti-consumer, though it is, but because it's not completely controlled by Microsoft. Anti-consumer implementations of technologies that are Micrsoft owned and controlled are just fine for him.

Re:Storage on hard drives

[Mozk]

It shouldn't cost millions to make a movie. Personally, I don't know why you would pay an actor over a million dollars to act in a movie. It's not that hard of a job, and they don't need that much money. Perhaps if they paid the actors less, the movies would cost less to buy or see. You could say that having a person like Tom Cruise in a movie will sell it more, but that shouldn't be the case. He's actually not that great of an actor, and I couldn't care less who was in what movie. The person should fit the role.

Re:Storage on hard drives

[CylanR77]

Yeah, it sure is too bad that you've convinced yourself that your tastes are much too refined for Hollywood's latest. It must be that *they* are the ones who are wrong, because they can't produce a movie that you want to like. Clearly, you know better and your next movie will reawaken great taste in the masses, right?