Posted by elrous0 on 07/03/07 15:57

On Jul 2, 2:42 am, Mutley <mutley90210REM...@hotmail.REMOVEcom> wrote:
> The down side of Bluray is regional coding. Non on HD DVD which
> matters outside the USA..

The biggest downside of blu-ray to me is Sony. Sony are control freaks
with a long history of abusing any dominance they gain. You can bet
that they are just ITCHING to turn on some of blu-ray's more draconian
DRM features (downsampling, BD+, required internet connection, etc.)
the second HD-DVD is out of the picture. They would love nothing
better than to force a de facto divx type situation on us, where the
studio has COMPLETE CONTROL over the content on a disc at all times
(down to whether you can even view it at all). It's the inherent
conflict of interest with a hardware manufacturer who is also a major
media producer.

The region coding thing isn't as big a deal in the U.S. because of the
proliferation of region 1 titles and the fact that we couldn't play
European discs even if they didn't have regional coding (since almost
all American players and TV's are NTSC only).

-Eric

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