On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:22:29 +0100, Hadron wrote:
> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The self-proclaimed advocates seem to prefer Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. I'm
>> curious about this. Blu-Ray has one obvious advantage: more capacity.
>>
>> However, Blu-Ray also has the following:
>>
>> 1. Region coding.
>>
>> 2. More DRM. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray both have AACS. Blu-Ray in addition
>> has BD+, which is basically a virtual machine in the player, and disc
>> manufacturers can put programs on their discs that the player will
>> execute on this virtual machine before playing the disc. That code can
>> check to see if the system has been tampered with, modify audio and
>> video playback, and even run native code (such as to install firmware
>> updates to "fix" broken DRM schemes).
>>
>> Isn't automatically running code something that 'advocates' are
>> constantly slamming Microsoft for, blaming pretty much their entire spam
>> and virus problems on it? Yet they are OK with that in their movie
>> players!?
>>
>> So, I'm curious. Are the notable Blu-Ray fans here (Hi, Roy!) picking
>> Blu-Ray for any reason *other* than Microsoft seems to like HD-DVD
>> better?
>
> Well, Roy HAS recently started advocating closed source, patented SW
> too, so who knows?
Wzit till he has to finally leave school and find a real job.
He will change his tune from Kumbaya to "I Got Plenty Of Nothing" real
soon.
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