Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 07/03/07 16:11

In article <1183478251.733459.39280@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
elrous0@pop.uky.edu wrote:

> 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

Sony certainly brings a bit of fire to the format wars and that's a
fact! Not only do they have a history of being control freaks, now
they've taken a different approach and started lieing in their owners
manuals...

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