____/ Jerry McBride on Wednesday 16 January 2008 12:35 : \____
> Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <4630690.jfmHiOjdl1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Some poor people wasted money on a HDDVD player and videos that will
>>> probably 'expire'.
>>
>> What is the mechanism for videos to expire?
>>
>
> HDDVD is a dead end format... Once the players/drives dry up... the media
> will also... therefore "expire" is a good term to use...
Yes, exactly my point. Thanks for explaining this in a language Timmy the
Stalking Toddler can understand.
>> And do you have any comment on the people who bought Blu-Ray players
>> that won't play the special features on the newer discs?
>>
>
> The Blue Ray format is now the standard and will be supported and developed
> during it's life. If these "special features" are in the media, then it
> must exist in a blueray spec somewhere... it'll be supported.
The issue with any 'standard' like this is that there's secret -- by
definition -- DRM (thereby it's made a non-standard) and you also have to
manufacture hardware, which can't be done with a compiler.
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