Obviously AACS LA will have to know which players to revoke, but I suspect hackers will start leaking player keys soon, since they're more useful than title keys.
Today if you want to conduct virtually any kind of commerce over the Net, you have to provide a whole dossier of information about yourself. Whether this information is technically necessary or not is irrelevant -- if virtually all companies demand it, then individuals will have to provide it.
So here's some technology that allows you to anonymize your data or just not send it in the first place; what is the incentive for businesses to adopt this technology (at great cost to them)? Perhaps in Europe it will be mandated by law but I don't have any hope here in the USA.
Not everyone can afford to download 20GB files. Plenty of people rip DVDs that they own/rent even though the same movies are available for download, and those same people will want tools to locally rip HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs.
WinDVD Japanese edition was used if you read the Doom9 forums. Besides, there are only two software HD-DVD/Blu-ray players, so worst-case they could just revoke both.
High-end GPUs are so large there's no room to fit a processor on the same die. So Fusion will inevitably have lower performance than the best discrete GPUs.
Do you work for a struggling broadband ISP? Using bandwidth that's already been paid for isn't "harming" anyone; it's more properly called "business". If ISPs have made bad deals, let them choke on their own shortsightedness.
BTW, I don't think caching and DRM are compatible.
If you read Fluendo employees' blogs, they've been working on these codecs for a year or so. Also, when you license Windows Media from MS they give you the source code AFAIK. All Fluendo did was port MS's code to GStreamer; they didn't try to reimplement it.
OTOH, the DVD spec has gone a decade with no such changes. I suspect that HD-DVD and Blu-ray will stay frozen until 4K "ultra definition" downloads take off around 2017.
Municipal networks are free from competition only if they are the only game in town, which virtually no one is proposing. Municipal networks will have to compete with telcos and cable companies.
Also, there are a lot of places where there is an effective broadband monopoly already; in those cases would you prefer a for-profit monopoly or a non-profit one?
(This article appears to be a dupe, so I might as well repost my comment from last time.)
The HD-DVD spec was finalized a while ago. HD-DVD players can only read two layers, therefore no movie can ever have more than two layers. All this talk about more layers is just PR wanking.
By forcing cable companies to use CableCards themselves, the FCC will also force the cable industry to make CableCards actually work correctly. If the industry is given a choice between no VOD and making CableCard VOD work, they will find a way to make it work.
The HD-DVD spec was finalized a while ago. HD-DVD players can only read two layers, therefore no movie can ever have more than two layers. All this talk about more layers is just PR wanking.
The probability that a disk will fail completely is much higher than the probability that it will corrupt a few sectors. ECC only protects against the latter case, while RAID+checksums protects against both cases. Unsurprisingly, RAID+checksums is what the industry tends to offer.
It's clever how you slipped into the future tense there. Startups aren't being censored today, and I think telco claims about "high-speed lanes" were just trial balloons that were put away after the public (and FCC) backlash.
Wouldn't that add an unreasonable length of time to the burning process?
Yes, but do you think they care? Downloading and burning movies is already so expensive and time-consuming that transcoding won't make it much worse. Another way to look at it is that you can spend 5 hours downloading + 30 min burning or 2 hours downwloading, 3 hours transcoding, and 30 min burning - the net time is the same, but the latter is cheaper for the content providers.
It was never about performance per se -- there are plenty of faster things out there than the Core 2 Duo.
For scientific and database apps, sure. But for integer and multimedia code, there's nothing faster than the Core. I wonder what kind of code Macs are running...
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Yes, AACS supports billions of keys.
Obviously AACS LA will have to know which players to revoke, but I suspect hackers will start leaking player keys soon, since they're more useful than title keys.
Today if you want to conduct virtually any kind of commerce over the Net, you have to provide a whole dossier of information about yourself. Whether this information is technically necessary or not is irrelevant -- if virtually all companies demand it, then individuals will have to provide it.
So here's some technology that allows you to anonymize your data or just not send it in the first place; what is the incentive for businesses to adopt this technology (at great cost to them)? Perhaps in Europe it will be mandated by law but I don't have any hope here in the USA.
Not everyone can afford to download 20GB files. Plenty of people rip DVDs that they own/rent even though the same movies are available for download, and those same people will want tools to locally rip HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs.
If one hacker's player gets revoked, it won't affect regular users at all. And the hacker will probably just buy another one.
An ATI graphics card with proprietary drivers or an NVidia graphics card with proprietary drivers; what a choice.
WinDVD Japanese edition was used if you read the Doom9 forums. Besides, there are only two software HD-DVD/Blu-ray players, so worst-case they could just revoke both.
Never. The marginal benefit of HTX is outweighed by the cost of making two different variants of the GPU.
HTX should really be renamed to the PathScale slot, since they're the only ones who use it (and probably the only ones who ever will).
High-end GPUs are so large there's no room to fit a processor on the same die. So Fusion will inevitably have lower performance than the best discrete GPUs.
Do you work for a struggling broadband ISP? Using bandwidth that's already been paid for isn't "harming" anyone; it's more properly called "business". If ISPs have made bad deals, let them choke on their own shortsightedness.
BTW, I don't think caching and DRM are compatible.
If you read Fluendo employees' blogs, they've been working on these codecs for a year or so. Also, when you license Windows Media from MS they give you the source code AFAIK. All Fluendo did was port MS's code to GStreamer; they didn't try to reimplement it.
What about Speex or iLBC? Good luck finding other people to interoperate with weird codecs, though.
OTOH, the DVD spec has gone a decade with no such changes. I suspect that HD-DVD and Blu-ray will stay frozen until 4K "ultra definition" downloads take off around 2017.
Municipal networks are free from competition only if they are the only game in town, which virtually no one is proposing. Municipal networks will have to compete with telcos and cable companies.
Also, there are a lot of places where there is an effective broadband monopoly already; in those cases would you prefer a for-profit monopoly or a non-profit one?
(This article appears to be a dupe, so I might as well repost my comment from last time.)
The HD-DVD spec was finalized a while ago. HD-DVD players can only read two layers, therefore no movie can ever have more than two layers. All this talk about more layers is just PR wanking.
By forcing cable companies to use CableCards themselves, the FCC will also force the cable industry to make CableCards actually work correctly. If the industry is given a choice between no VOD and making CableCard VOD work, they will find a way to make it work.
The HD-DVD spec was finalized a while ago. HD-DVD players can only read two layers, therefore no movie can ever have more than two layers. All this talk about more layers is just PR wanking.
The probability that a disk will fail completely is much higher than the probability that it will corrupt a few sectors. ECC only protects against the latter case, while RAID+checksums protects against both cases. Unsurprisingly, RAID+checksums is what the industry tends to offer.
It's clever how you slipped into the future tense there. Startups aren't being censored today, and I think telco claims about "high-speed lanes" were just trial balloons that were put away after the public (and FCC) backlash.
Which startups are being censored?
Wouldn't that add an unreasonable length of time to the burning process?
Yes, but do you think they care? Downloading and burning movies is already so expensive and time-consuming that transcoding won't make it much worse. Another way to look at it is that you can spend 5 hours downloading + 30 min burning or 2 hours downwloading, 3 hours transcoding, and 30 min burning - the net time is the same, but the latter is cheaper for the content providers.
You want a 100W processor in a laptop?
More likely it will be a 2GB VC-1 file which your computer will convert to a 9GB DVD ISO image before burning - sort of like ratDVD but legitimate.
Qflix and Netflix use exactly the same DRM system.
Also, you are ignoring the difference between renting and buying.
If a country buys a lot of OLPCs, say 1M, that's $150M. I think they can throw in another million for i18n.
It was never about performance per se -- there are plenty of faster things out there than the Core 2 Duo.
For scientific and database apps, sure. But for integer and multimedia code, there's nothing faster than the Core. I wonder what kind of code Macs are running...