Posted by Luke Curtis on 11/16/06 07:59

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:56:36 +0100, LeeJS <lee@nospamw2designs.co.uk>
wrote:

>On 7 Jun 2006 07:17:20 -0700, "Kevin Gerbil"
><drytherain2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>Not having any real information, I have already decided to hate
>>Blu-Ray. Why? Becuase Sony seem to insist on their own little format
>>all the time, as some sort of revenge for Betamax's failure.
>>
>>MiniDisc- pointless waste of time
>>
>>All that malarky with DVD+R
>>
>Not forgetting the extensive range of Sony Memory Stick formats
>(15+?), UMD, their pointless ATRAC codec system and their DRM rootkit.

I hated UMD on principle that it said it was "DVD Quality" when it
clearly is not - it may give a good picture on a PSP screen but it *is
not* DVD quality, I've never seen one with extras and to add insult to
injury the disks were frequently more expensive than DVD!

>
>Anyone think of any others?

I did hear a scare story (probably totally incorrectly) that Blue ray
needed to be connected to the Internet to have the disks authorized
over the web and that if you were found to be playing a copy it would
kill your player, at that you would have to keep re-paying for the
licence to play disks you have already paid for!

>
>I really do hate Sony. Which is a shame since I've just bought a 46" X
>series LCD :(
>
>Lee.

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