Posted by William Davis on 12/24/64 11:29

In article <11klo82agv00uac@corp.supernews.com>,
"Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:

> "Tarkus" <karnevil9@beer.com> wrote in message
> news:xlofjwgubjxo.dlg@tarkus.karnevil9.com...
> > On 10/10/2005 10:02:59 AM, Henry Padilla wrote:
> >
> >> Looks like WB is going to back Blu-Ray. This will probably tip the
> >> scales on HD-DVD.
> >>
> >> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9610452/
> >>
> >> MS has got to be ready to strangle someone.
> >
> > Alpha?
>
> Both Blu Ray and HD DVD will fail as they are currently conceived. Mark my
> words.....both will undergo modification, particularly to remove the Big
> Brother copy protection envisioned (especially by Blu Ray).

I don't know about "fail" but I suspect that as this generation of kids
progress through the industry, there'll be a split between the 'sold'
content and the 'collected' content camps.

For a large slice of the market, the "sold" guys will continue to rely
on mechanical gizmos and copy protection.

Underneath that, you'll find a continuing, robust and ever shifting
electronic game conceived along the lines of some permutation of the bit
torrent concept - where people exchange the content they like - in
whatever whatever "definition" they enjoy - totally without regard for
any of the legal niceities.

If a content provider makes it easier to "play legal" like Apple did
with iTunes (now with VIDEO!) in a model that includes both hardware AND
software accessibility in a simple, workable model with extras (user
ratings, tips, mixes, etc) that will do well.

But all the traditional "disc" formats are just fingers in the dikes of
the reality of the current world of digital content distribution.

They just don't understand that the whole damn technology is shifting
out from under them by the hour.

Mikey (now 13) wanted some music from a band not on iTunes so I took him
shopping to a bricks and mortar music store. Whoever made the decision
not to license to iTunes made him leave his house, physically travel to
the mall, buy a piece of round plastic encased in MORE plastic -
"protected" but MORE plastic that he cursed while opening - than ripped
to his iPod and promptly consigned all the plastic crap INCLUDING the CD
to the landfill - and charged him almost double ($17) for the privilege

Nice business model.

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