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.'"

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If Bill Gates spoke out against jumping off cliffs

[Hosiah]

...I would sprint for the cliff out of sheer reflex. I wasn't so sure about Blu-Ray before, but anybody Bill Gates doesn't like is a friend of mine!

As for the Redmond round table: I just realized that every time I hear Microsoft open it's mouth these days, it's complaining or unhappy about something. Is this what a mastodon sounds like as it sinks into a tar pit?

Re:Is this the same Bill Gates?

[mysticwhiskey]

Ala Keyser Soze - "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist"

;)

Erp?

[hardgeus]

So...confused...don't know which evil to side with...

Re:Storage on hard drives

[mysticwhiskey]

DISTORBUTION - (n) A corruptive distortion-like field generated with the intent to imbue the subject with a sense of acceptance.

Re:If Bill Gates spoke out against jumping off cli

[aurb]

He may be Bill Gates, but I think he's right this time.

*ducks under the table*

Re:How far wrong is he?

[ebuck]

Winston: I'm worried, Ray. All my readings point to something big on the horizon.

Ray: What do you mean, big?

Winston: Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of hard drive space in a New York area desktop. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

Ray: That's a big Twinkie.

Yes Mr Stallman

[strider44]

'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.'

Yes Mr Stallman, but I think that this sort of thing is bound to happen whatever you...Bill who said what?

Re:How far wrong is he?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Egon who explains it to Ray, and Winston who says "That's a big Twinkie".

Sigh, I have no life do I?

Better post AC.