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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iam shocked...

[cycledance]

i agree with bill gates!

Re:Storage on hard drives

[slavemowgli]

Acting may be a hard job, yes... but so are other things. If I slave away coding for 12 hours a day and seven days a week to meet the deadline for a project, do I get paid millions by my employer? Of course not. Yet my employer still expects me to do this in case it is necessary. Why does a famous movie actor makes hundreds of times as much money as I do? Because the job's hundreds of times as hard? Get serious.

As for the "20 hours a day" figure, I hope you'll understand that I won't accept that as a fact until you come with some references - that's exaggerated a bit *too* much to still pass the "could be true" common sense test.

And with regard to actors making millions because movies make millions... why is it just the actors (and maybe the director), then? Why not - for example - camera operators, gaffers, sound engineers, animators, computer system administrators, animal handlers, and whoever else you need for a movie? Certainly the movie wouldn't be possible without *these* people, either. Yet they don't make millions - not even close.

So there.