Posted by Steven on 01/08/08 22:28

I also beleive this was a major reason as well and think it overrides
cheaper production and better interactivity and cheaper players, etc..

BD protecton is harder to break for now and the fact they are loading up
these disc with large size 35-45gig of data makes breaking and ripping
harder

It's not the only reason, but a big one....

I got setup yesterday to really hear the new audio codecs TrueHD, DTS-HD
etc -- new receiver and updated by XA2 to Bitstream them via HDMI. Sound
good..

I still can not bitstream this from an HTPC to the receiver via HDMI, but
hopefully a way will be there soon - I play all my Bluray from a PC.. I have
lots of storage with dedicated RAID servers and all My HDVD and BLURAY are
also on my server as well as 1000 DVD's.. I can play the from PC's in 3-4
locations in my place without hunting down the disk..

These new sound codecs are worth occasionally pulling the disk and playing
in the stand alone player - they do sound good................

I'll look at standalone BD players after another generation - no interest in
the PS3


> my one guess is copy protection
>
> BD has better copy protection
> than HD-DVD does
>
> both the video biz and the audio biz
> have repeatedly shown that they will
> cut off their noses to spite their faces,
> as long as they get higher profits in the
> early stages of a new technology
>
> HD-DVD has less copy protection than
> BD does and will likely be cracked
> sooner than BD will

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