____/ RonB on Wednesday 20 February 2008 06:37 : \____
> Tim Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> There's an interesting article over at Ars Technica about what HD-DVD
>> should have done different. One of the points is that they should have
>> included more DRM. Several studios, including Fox and Lionsgate, went
>> with Blu-Ray because it has more DRM.
Once again the Microsoft shill, Tim Smith, advocates DVD on behalf of a company
that admittedly loves it so much.
> John C Dvorak has a whole different angle. He thinks the HD DVD game was
> played just to mess up Sony.
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2265032,00.asp
> ~~
> "Playing Dirty
> My favorite iteration of the HD DVD campaign was the negative push whereby
> all you heard was how Blu-ray disks would scratch easily and be ruined by a
> single thumbprint, or how they are hard to manufacture, and on and on. This
> was an orchestrated attack and none of it was true."
> ~~
>
> M$ FUD tactic? Nah, couldn't be!
>
> And..
>
> ~~
> "The Scheme Ends
> In hindsight, I have to conclude that the entire exercise was a sham, plain
> and simple. Perhaps it was part of a larger marketing effort to screw with
> Sony."
> ~~
>
> And...
>
> ~~
> "No matter what anyone says, it was Microsoft who seemed to be the money and
> the mouth pushing HD DVD. When you sat down with Toshiba's HD DVD folks,
> Microsoft was always there."
> ~~
>
> Looks like Sony end ran around them by putting Blue Ray players in PS3s.
> That the difference between Japanese companies -- they plan into the future
> instead of thinking only of the next quarter.
Whatever the DVD format, this isn't of much relevance to Linux, but Blu-Ray's
win is a huge blow to Microsoft (primarily a financial blow) and good news to
a unit that can run Linux (live CD), have it installed, or even _pre_installed
for years to come.
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