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Sony DRM and the New Digital Hole
expro writes "If the root kit scandal was not enough for Sony, Time Magazine reports that it is a delay in 'the release of copy-protection software required for the PS3's game and high-definition movie discs' giving Microsoft a serious advantage in the market place. Is there something Sony should be learning here about preoccupation copy control? With high definition writable media appearing already, will the price drop soon enough to help me overcome the real obstacle to backing up my exsisting commercial DVDs, cost of single media large enough to hold them that is playable in a player? Will the resulting new digital hole in copying existing DVD schemes to higher-density media replace the analog hole of VCRs in copying movies?"
Perception of Sony's products... ok, you mean that they're overpriced crap and just about everyone knows this? Even their high-end stuff isn't quality any more. They're like Bose w/o the cache.
And their media empire hasn't been doing so hot lately either.
Basically, the main thing keeping Sony afloat right now is the playstation brand. They are not a healthy company.
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The first eight Sony blu-ray discs will play in full resolution over componet cables. That's an awesome standing on copy protection sonsidering HDCP is suppose to kill the resolution for any analog singal.
I truly hope that expro isn't a native English speaker. If he is, he really needs to go back to 7th grade English class to learn about sentence structure.
This guy's the limit!
Thacherous computing plattaforms won't be able to run Linux. Or, at least won't be able to do that the way we do it now, that is easy to modify and improve.
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Mandatory managed copy.
You can save HD to back-up media or hard drive at full resolution. (Preserving closed captioning and multiple audio tracks?) You can distribute to home networks. You can painlessly downsample/download to portable devices and media.
That would meet 95% or more of anyone's "fair use" requirements.
The difference between the PS2 and the XBox though is that the PS2 came out first. The power is almost irrelevant, it's who has the better games. The PS3 is going to need a strong launch lineup to compete.
The grandparent was referring to the final devkits, which are probably going out in May/June. This was fairly widely reported in the gaming media. Here's just one example story.
I'm not sure how different the current devkits are from the final PS3 hardware, but it could potentially lead to some serious development work still to come. If nothing else the more elite devs will want to take at least a few months to get better performance/graphics out of their game using the presumably superior performance of the final kits. A good example of this is Rare's X360 launch title Kameo: Rare added self-shadowing to all of the characters within the last two months or so of development, and it really improved the (already beautiful) graphics.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon
Aren't the newer versions of FairPlay still unbroken? JHymn can only do iTunes 5.0 and below songs, for example.
Earlier versions of Microsoft DRM were cracked too.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon