I have a Panasonic L300 LED front projector I use for gaming and HDTV. The bulbs are rated to 5000hours usage and cost about $300 a piece. This brings the cost to $0.06 cents an hour, not 30cents.
DVD player royalties is approximately US$5 to $10, depending if you are part of MPEG LA, 3C or 5C consortium. China manufacturers pump out more than 30 million DVD players a year, so imagine the massive outflow of cash to US companies holding the DVD patents. EVD uses the same media format as DVD (ie. two 0.6mm polycarbonate discs with reflective layers read out using a coherent light source), so they still have to pay royalties to Time-Warner, Philips, Sony, Matsushita, Thomson-RCA, Toshiba etc for the disc patents.
Samples of the cell processor are rumoured to be available from IBM now. It will probably take Sony a year to debug the silicon and get the compilers to a level where programs will run at a decent speed. Next comes the fun part of integrating four of those cell processors onto a PS3 motherboard and convincing game devs it won't be a bear to write code on.
It is exactly these copy-protected mixed mode discs that confuses the ROM drives and Windoz machines. Standard audio CD players will play these discs without a hitch because the player firmware ignores the second session of the CD and only processes the Table of Contents (TOC). The TOC is a simple listing of the individual tracks and the start location. Mess with that and no CD player will play it. Drive manufacturers could incorporate a switch on the front of CD/DVD-ROM drives that 'dumbs-down' the drive firmware so it will report the protected disc as a regular audio disc to the PC. ===========
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I have a Panasonic L300 LED front projector I use for gaming and HDTV. The bulbs are rated to 5000hours usage and cost about $300 a piece. This brings the cost to $0.06 cents an hour, not 30cents.
DVD player royalties is approximately US$5 to $10, depending if you are part of MPEG LA, 3C or 5C consortium. China manufacturers pump out more than 30 million DVD players a year, so imagine the massive outflow of cash to US companies holding the DVD patents.
EVD uses the same media format as DVD (ie. two 0.6mm polycarbonate discs with reflective layers read out using a coherent light source), so they still have to pay royalties to Time-Warner, Philips, Sony, Matsushita, Thomson-RCA, Toshiba etc for the disc patents.
Samples of the cell processor are rumoured to be available from IBM now. It will probably take Sony a year to debug the silicon and get the compilers to a level where programs will run at a decent speed. Next comes the fun part of integrating four of those cell processors onto a PS3 motherboard and convincing game devs it won't be a bear to write code on.
It is exactly these copy-protected mixed mode discs that confuses the ROM drives and Windoz machines. Standard audio CD players will play these discs without a hitch because the player firmware ignores the second session of the CD and only processes the Table of Contents (TOC). The TOC is a simple listing of the individual tracks and the start location. Mess with that and no CD player will play it.
Drive manufacturers could incorporate a switch on the front of CD/DVD-ROM drives that 'dumbs-down' the drive firmware so it will report the protected disc as a regular audio disc to the PC.
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