Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD Not Over Yet

samkass writes "Here is a good summary of the latest technical wheeling-and-dealing between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Among things that were new to me: the addition of a "red" 9GB HD format to Blu-Ray that would make initial Blu-Ray content (that fits) even cheaper than HD-DVD. Also, more discussion about managed copy (AACS, BD Plus, and ROM Mark) and iHD (HD-DVD) vs BD-J/Java (Blu-Ray)."

Comments

Rootkit Included?

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't Blu-Ray Sony's technology? Does it come with a free rootkit?

Re:Rootkit Included?

[DimGeo]

Do you mean LGPL'ed rootkit? ;)

Format Wars!

[unik]

Sounds like a good text-based game..

Blu-Ray will be Infected with DRM

[topical_surfactant]

And thus, it will never be popular, no matter how much data you can fit on the disc.

You can't polish a turd, no matter how big and blue it is.

Re:Blu-Ray will be Infected with DRM

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't polish a turd, no matter how big and blue it is.

Cut down on the blueberries!

Re:BluRay will win says TFA

[Golias]

"Blu-ray Will Win a Pyrrhic Victory Over HD-DVD."

So, they will win the platform war, but so many Sony employees will be killed in the process that it will be judged to have not been worth it?

Bold prediction there.

Let the n00b say this

[joelito_pr]

I for one welcome our new DRMed smurf colored overlords :)

Red Blu-Ray?

[op12]

Sounds like something 3D is afoot.

My eyes glazed over on the story

[sgant]

All I saw was "HD-DVD 9GB HD HD-DVD AACS, BD Plus, and ROM Mark iHD (HD-DVD) vs BD-J/Java (Blu-Ray)"

My acronym cup runneth over...