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Posted by Bill Van Dyk on 10/11/05 17:35
A Chinese or Indian company comes out with a new format and it is
adopted by Bollywood and the emerging Chinese film industry, who have
every reason to undercut Hollywood and Japan. It can read and write
somewhere around 30 GIG to a DVD form factor and the players are
compatible with existing DVD disks.
Actually, now that you mention it... you never know. Why did the VCR
utterly crush the Video Disk Player? Because it could record. I don't
know how that element factors into the introduction of new media, but I
know that those big greedy corporations are sensitive to the way
consumers attitudes sometimes coalesce around a particular issue. DRM
may prove to be an utter bust. If some Asian company offers some other
kind of technology and for some reason doesn't feel oblidged to cowtow
to the DRM cartel....
And in my view, this is a cartel.
The truth is, Free Enterprise and competition are for schmucks. The
real world is collaboration between Microsoft, Sony, Warner Brothers,
etc. "Competition? We don't need no stinking competition..."
Tarkus wrote:
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> Exactly how would you expect a third format to succeed without the
> blessing of those content corporations in Hollywood? Are they going to
> shoot their own films?
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