Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 11/02/05 23:46

John <road@runner.com> wrote:

>I can't quite believe that DVDs could be replaced already, and it
>seems that they have only taken off in the last few years. I believe
>it was only two years ago in 2003 that DVD sales became the majority
>ahead of VHS.
>
>I think the pace of change is a little too fast for my liking. The end
>consumer can not be happy about spending a lot of money on DVD
>equipment for it to all be replaced by newer High Definition BRDs so
>quickly.

It appears to me that there will be a HUGE manufacturer's push to replace
DVD with Blu-Ray. Sony is insanely maniacal about forcing their braind of
"copy protection" on everyone (see
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/sony_raids_hack.html)
and Blu-Ray players are supposed to need an internet connection so that Big
Brother Sony can check to see if you have the right to play each and every
Blu-Ray disc.

This business with Sony audio CDs ruining PCs just goes to show that they
don't care what they do to the consumer.

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