X-bit labs

Started by: Moe Szyslak | Date 10/11/07

Comments: 10 | Last Comment:  10/13/07

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1. They're shooting themselves in the foot. Any kind of protection will be cracked in no-time. This isn't exactly great marketing for the BD team.

Yep agree BD you make it worse...Wrong approach fell into doom

2. I've always been a fan of BluRay because of higher capacity... but the HD-DVD group are not focusing on copyprotection methods that are so complex that they will destroy themselves, unlike this BluRay crap.
I'm now officially a HD-DVD fan... well done Sony & friends!

3. blu-ray / hd-dvd... f*ck em ... here comes HD VMD!!!!


http://www.amazon.com/NME-VMD-Player-ML777s-Black/dp/B000W0DP6E/ref=sr_1_2/002-5508429-8724018?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1192152985&sr=1-2

4. But Hollywood must welcome this BD+ technology. It is the matter that Hollywood would perfect to support a format that can protect their video software content, not consumer.

We can see that in recent years, there was several copy-protection technologies developed on CD and DVD. All these lead to different compatability problem as well. (e.g. Many CD copy-protection technolgies made those CDs can't be playbacked in car-stereo, PC and some DVD players). However, it is also a truth that technologies were welcomed by Hollywood and the music industry. They are kept being implemented on new CD/DVD release.

So please don't be so naive to think that u can made ur own format choice. Remember that Hollywood don't like a format that can allow copying of their content, becox all these would destroy Hollywood themselves!

For those who think HD-DVD stay away from copy-protection stuffs, u will be disappointed since Toshiba had stated that they would answer BD+ with something similar in order to comfort Hollywood!

I suppose that could happen and it would be useless since any such protection would eventually be defeated. Anyway I still take issue with the fact that the Blu Ray standard wasn't even really finished when it was released. I would like to think that HD-DVD players will have less of a chance of becoming paper weights, but we shall just have to wait and see what happens.

5. Yeah I'm not surprised, I was kind of expecting this when the Blu Ray camp said they would be comming out with a new copy protection after their last one got cracked. Honestly I thought there would be alot more incompatibilities. This one will be cracked too and then a new scheme will come out that will render more players useless. All this really dose is tick off customers, in the end it will not stop piracy but may even encourage it. To a consumer they may even be willing to pay for a pirated blu ray disk that works instead of a retail one that will not.

I'm gonna stick with DVDs and maybe I'll go HD for Transformers. Sorry Blu Ray but not even spider man 3 will make me support your crappy format with your crappy copy protection schemes. Yeah HD DVD uses alot of the same technology but I don't have to worry about a new HD DVD player becoming a paper weight a few years from now because studios want a new copy protection.

6. BD+ or RK+(rootkit+) wont ever find its way onto a hd-dvd as it is a final spec format, unlike BR which change thier minds every month. wait until all the players out right now wont play BR's profile 1.1 which comes out at the end of the month. aacs is bad enough but seems to be crackable at the moment.

7. A Hilarious example of Technology that is too effective

8. Another reason why i dislike anything sony has a hand in.

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