HP strongarms Blu Ray

Good. A win for Sony is a HUGE loss for the entire market. Sony's proprietary media is always sub-par with premium pricing. Even if Blu-ray has a higher capacity than HD-DVD, the way Sony likes to rob everyone will more than make up for those extra few gigs.
 
Does anyone know what iHD and Mandatory Managed Copy are? I'd like to hear what these do before I take a stance on whether HP pushing hard for them is a good thing or not...

HD-DVD is going to die in the water, Blu-Ray is the way things are going to go, it is superior technology, HD-DVD lost it's head-start lead, and once PS3 hits the market millions of homes will have Blu-Ray players. So, at this point, I am just hoping the BDA doesn't start catfighting and bastardizing the format.
 
NulloModo said:
Does anyone know what iHD and Mandatory Managed Copy are? I'd like to hear what these do before I take a stance on whether HP pushing hard for them is a good thing or not...

HD-DVD is going to die in the water, Blu-Ray is the way things are going to go, it is superior technology, HD-DVD lost it's head-start lead, and once PS3 hits the market millions of homes will have Blu-Ray players. So, at this point, I am just hoping the BDA doesn't start catfighting and bastardizing the format.
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I think you'll change your stance when you learn what Mandatory Managed Copy is.....
(This is my understanding based on reading the article, so I'm definitely no expert)
Basically, HD-DVD has Mandatory Managed Copy, which guarantees that we will be able to make a copy of our DVD's to sit on a server, or use on another TV, or to take in the car, etc. Blu ray does not have this, so basically we would be at the mercy of the movie makers choosing who they will allow to copy movies and exactly what movies we would be allowed to copy. But, HP's stance is, if Blu-Ray will introduce MMC, they will stick with BD. If not, they will be "neutral", and will go with the cheaper/more effective option, which would be HDDVD.
I have no idea what iHD is though, and it doesn't sound like Tom's does either.
 
jebo_4jc said:
I think you'll change your stance when you learn what Mandatory Managed Copy is.....
(This is my understanding based on reading the article, so I'm definitely no expert)
Basically, HD-DVD has Mandatory Managed Copy, which guarantees that we will be able to make a copy of our DVD's to sit on a server, or use on another TV, or to take in the car, etc. Blu ray does not have this, so basically we would be at the mercy of the movie makers choosing who they will allow to copy movies and exactly what movies we would be allowed to copy. But, HP's stance is, if Blu-Ray will introduce MMC, they will stick with BD. If not, they will be "neutral", and will go with the cheaper/more effective option, which would be HDDVD.
I have no idea what iHD is though, and it doesn't sound like Tom's does either.
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Ah, I gotcha. I'm not particularly worried either way about whether the official spec supports copying or not. There will be cracks out within the first year, and I'd much rather have an unmanaged copy than a DRMed one anyway.
 
NulloModo said:
Ah, I gotcha. I'm not particularly worried either way about whether the official spec supports copying or not. There will be cracks out within the first year, and I'd much rather have an unmanaged copy than a DRMed one anyway.
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You have a point, but the underground has its work cut out for it, IMHO.
Let's say that Vista's DRM crap somehow can determine if DRM is missing in a HD video, and locks us down. I dunno...unfortunately we may not know which is the best format until long after the format has been made a standard.
 
Debo 4-JC,



you forgot something very important.

Copying/Archiving Blu-Ray discs will be nearly impossible.

1. SONY has the rights to the entire setup.

2. we know they are greedy.

3. BR rights management says they will also be in all players.

4.breaking blu ray code may not be as huge an issue. but a player working with the standard to prevent copies will mean all,but 1 or 2 BR DVD players will allow a cracked DVD.
 
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