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HD DVD Demo a Disappointment

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the things-to-never-live-down dept.

triso writes to tell us that the recent unveiling of the new Toshiba HD DVD production model met with a few difficulties. From the article: "It was supposed to be the grand unveiling of a new generation in home entertainment when Kevin Collins of Microsoft Corp. popped an HD DVD disc into a Toshiba production model and hit 'play.' Nothing happened. The failed product demo at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show was hardly an auspicious start for the HD DVD camp in what's promising to be a nasty format war similar to the Betamax/VHS video tape battle."

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  1. Re:Yeah, that's never happened before.... by sn0wflake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sure this could never happen to Linux. If something bad happened I imagine the guy presenting thinking something like "Oh... Okay, no problem. Let me just enter five obscure 100 char long commandlines and it'll work." and it probably does. The problem though is that no ordinary, or even slightly advanced, computers users know these commandlines and how they interact. That is the basic problem why Linux isn't installed everywhere. Sure, it's a great OS but hardly anybody knows how to make it work when the slightest problem occurs.

  2. DRM teething problems... by curious.corn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It must have been some error in the DRM key validation procedure between the player and the disc (1). I believe it was quite a successful demo, it shows truthfully the roadmap for the "media consumption devices" of our bright future. (1) passive media acting as an independent entity? Isn't that strange, isn't the hardware I own omnipotent on the bitstream it receives at its input ports... oh, sorry I just woke into the '00s...

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  3. DRM teething problems... by curious.corn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It must have been some error in the DRM key validation procedure between the player and the disc (1). I believe it was quite a successful demo, it shows truthfully the roadmap for the "media consumption devices" of our bright future.

    (1) passive media acting as an independent entity? Isn't that strange, isn't the hardware I own omnipotent on the bitstream it receives at its input ports... oh, sorry I just woke into the '00s...

    --
    Mi domando chi à il mandante di tutte le cazzate che faccio - Altan