Posted by ninphan on 07/03/07 17:16

On Jul 3, 11:57 am, elro...@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

Fortunately it doesn't matter what Sony does or doesn't want to do.
If the BDA don't approve it, it won't happen.
Region Coding is a studio's decisions, not the formats.
Downsampling, referring to non HDCP devices I'm sure, is not oging to
be implemented no matter what until 2010 at the earliest. That's been
agreed upon by the studios.

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