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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.'"
Is he kidding? Anti-Consumer? Kind of like a company that gets sued every other day for anti-competitive and monopolistic practices which are the definition of anti-consumer. Blu-Ray may be anti-consumer, I don't know, but that cause most definitely needs a spokesman that doesn't look like a pot yelling at a kettle.
* You can't stick it in a binder
* It will be useless in cars with DVD systems
* It will destroy portable dvd player market
* You think netflix will still offer free shipping on that stupid catridge?
* Will you really want to redesign your shelfs and entertainrooms around bigger/goofier looking catridges?
* Will you really let your kids touch something like this?
* Do you really think *SONY* is good or even better than Microsoft? Sony isn't Mr Corporate Friendly last time i checked.
Blue Ray destroys everything that is GOOD about DVD and CD type technology and takes us back to the days of proprietary zip disk looking things that may be the talk of the town for a short while but don't do anything but give us space that we won't use for a while.
Poory billy baby doesnt want to pay SONY royalties so he bad mouths Blu-Ray...
On a more realistic note, its always the case that different media formats come down to two things, Need and cost. Lets face it a removable harddrive is going to cost significantly more then a plastic disk to mass produce. The thing that works against blue-ray which i dare say will be only a matter of time is the need, at present it may not be needed to utilise the entire 50gig at present but the day will come when something greater then DVD will be required.
Weather it be removal hdd, i see its just a little unrealistic, heck so many factors work agaisnt using hdds as standard removable meida, one of those is the fact they are easily breakable, by dropping and magantisim, Okay yes we can sctrach disks but they still a hell of a lot more durable then a hdd.