HD DVD Player Delays in Japan

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 13, 2005 @10:04AM from the waiting-for-the-shiniest-discs dept.

TheSync writes "EE Times is reporting that Toshiba is delaying introduction of HD DVD players in Japan because of the unavailability of Advanced Access Content System (AACS) DRM system licensing. The Register reports that Toshiba is still planning a late Q1 launch of HD DVD in the US." From the EET article: "Toshiba hoped to introduce HD DVD players by the end of 2005, ahead of Blu-ray Disc players, but decided in September to postpone the U.S. introduction until 2006. In July, IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Corp., Toshiba, Walt Disney Company and Warner Bro. Studio formed the AACS Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) to develop license AACS technology. AACS LA has completed its version 0.9 of the technology."

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Re:AACS longevity: place your bets here! by convolvatron · 2005-12-13 12:11 · Score: 2, Informative

i just scanned the spec, and it looks alot like css...except*
that it has built-in support for revocation. which means that
the one weak device that leaks the key could possibly be
disabled in all future releases of content.

i dont know what this is supposed to mean for the poor people
that own a current instance of the weak device, but they
certainly spent alot of time thinking about how to do it
efficiently.