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Posted by Skipai Otter on 01/15/07 17:55
"Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.net> wrote in message news:45abb4eb.0@entanet...
> Skipai Otter wrote:
>> <mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>> news:1168876740.776689.131530@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> The Thing wrote:
>>>> If there was only one High Definition DVD format, would you have
>>>> brought a
>>>> machine by now?
>>>
>>> Not so long as Microsoft refuse to let me play disks I've purchased
>>> quite legally on my PC with software I own quite legally.
>>
>> I don't think it's Microsoft's fault, its more of the film studios
>> who wish to keep control at all costs. They probably threatened to
>> sue Microsoft if they didn't put in lower resolution if you don't
>> have a card with HDMI with HDCP etc certified cards.
>>
>>
> Reading between the lines of several reviews, this business of the
> multiple layers of encryption required by the MPAA etc. seems to be easier
> to crack than it 'should be'. So did the geeks at MS make it that way?
> Listening the podcast by Steve Gibson and hearing about access denial
> encryption trees (?) and the bit about them being able to remotely shut
> down your player if you try to hack it (even if it's not net connected -
> they do it by code in any newer DVD you try to play!) i.e. you hack it and
> your player is dead - forever!
> After all that you'd think it was impossible to hack. But no, HDDVD has
> already been hacked :-)
>
> So yes - don't buy any commercial player yet - get a PC and the hacking
> software.
>
> Oh and BlueRays' dead - They just told the Porn industry that none of the
> pressing plants are allowed to press porn :-) What a bunch of idiots!
> That's what killed Betamax!
> So the porn industry are now using HDDVD. Furthermore they have just
> announced a 51GB HDDVD disk so the size advantage of Blueray is no more.
Yeah but that will need new players as those disc's if approved won't play
on current HD-DVD machines. 3x17gb discs are different to 2x15gb.
Apparantely...
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Skipai
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