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Re: [News] DRM Discs Essentially Self Destruct Upon Compatibility Issues

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____/ 7 on Sunday 18 Oct 2009 09:58 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Blu-ray players are incompatible
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>> | BLU-RAY DISCS of 100GB or 200GB are incompatible
>> | with available players, according to The Blu-ray
>> | Disc Association.
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>> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1558654/blu-ray-players-
> incompatible
> 
> 
> It is cheaper at 60 UK pounds to buy a 1Tb HD than any blue ray crap.
> Use it like a cartridge like in the old days with desktop
> USB HD cartridge style plug and remove adapters.
> And the storage is free of dopey format restrictions.
> And it can hold any information from video to music and data.
> 
> The storage developers have been so influenced by their entertainment
> ownership management, they have gone mad over content protection
> and have destroyed their own markets.
> 
> A lesson in how to cut off your nose to spite your face.
> 
> Storage developers should never sell out their technology
> to companies that also own entertainment businesses.
> Instead focus on developing media and selling it to the
> public directly so that we can back up 1Tb drives for same
> price as a CD can back up 700Mb. If the entertainment
> industry want to put content on it, they can do that
> when they are ready to license it. Who needs their support
> in the digital age?

Google has just entered the audio business and it delivers over 1,000,000,000 videos
per day. The 'content' industry has many reasons to fret.

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