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Posted by Maxheadspace on 11/10/06 03:49
Blu Ray will lose because it priced itself out of the market. In an effort
to come out with the most bells, whistles, and storage space, Sony ended up
with a product that was way too expensive and market un-friendly. Right now
I can burn up to 40 minutes of HD-DVD video on conventional DVD-R disks
using my stock DVD burner. My only investment was Ulead MovieFactory 5
which cost me $49. The HD-DVD player is half the price of a Sony Blu Ray
player.
I bought my HDV camera to be on the leading edge of getting HD products out
there. I can do so right now, with some limitations, going the HD-DVD
route.
I love Sony products, but I get the impression that Sony wanted to add
bullet-proof anti-pirating protection to their disks, which increased the
complexity and cost of their product.
I'll keep chugging along with HD-DVD, because I know the market is growing.
It's simpler, it's cheaper, and it's here now.
Max
"slugbug" <fuzzhead72@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1162921159.229803.80920@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> After reading a lot of different articles about the two formats, I
> decided to stay far, far away from Sony's Blu-Ray technology. I want to
> be able to archive my own disks to my computer, so that I can watch the
> movie over my network whenever I want, without constantly having to get
> the actual disk down from the shelf.
>
> With Blu-Ray, that would be virtually impossible. Why?
>
> Well, with all lf the Blu-Ray players, there is a "back door" built in.
>
> This back door lets hollywood deactivate your player if anyone in the
> world with the same hardware happens to break their encryption. They do
> this by essentially writing in a "denial of service" message on the
> disks themselves, specifically telling it not to work properly on your
> player. It won't work again until you download a firmware upgrade, and
> update your machine. It is yet another step towards giving hollywood
> control over your machine.
>
> Remember DIVX, anyone? No, I'm not talking about the video compression
> codec. I'm talking about the players that let you watch the disks once,
> and made your machine call in to a database regularly. It was a
> competitor to DVD that came out about 8 years ago. Blu-Ray is a lot
> like that.
>
> There is a huge hacking community out there that will dedicate itself
> to breaking the encryption, just like they did with DVD's. Heck, they
> could break the new encryption on certain machines ever 3 weeks if they
> really worked at it. How would you like to be one of the folks owning
> that certain player? Or what if your Grandma, who might not have an
> Internet connection, had that player? She would get the headache of
> having her system stop working properly with rental disks every few
> weeks. Considering that Sony did the infamous rootkit thing, I'm not
> all that surprised that they are behind the Blu Ray disks.
>
> HD DVD doesn't incorporate this "back door" hollywood control
> mechanism. This means that the control over the player rests with you,
> and not hollywood.
>
> Sure, Sony and its affiliated studios are spending 4 times as much
> advertising how "great" Blu-Ray is. They are also hoping that if they
> only release their movies on Blu-Ray, you will decide to buy one of
> their players, thus ensuring that they win the format war, and further
> the cause of "eSlavery".
>
> So, you want to become an "eSlave"? Buy Blu-Ray. Want to keep your
> rights, and not have to mess with updating your player's firmware every
> month? Buy HD DVD.
>
> Add to that the fact that HD DVD disks are easier to manufacture and
> will cost less, and it is really a no-brainer to see why HD DVD is the
> smart choice.
>
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