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POSTED BY: Howard
UPDATED: Thursday, October 27, 2005 22:50
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As someone pointed out Tycho from Penny-Arcades post, the people who crack them are good at it.He also points out that the DVD version of F.E.A.R , on some computers, can't be installed at all because of copy-protection, Yet i've seen it posted on the internet a week before release.
Recently I've found a copy of Serenity that was almost DVD quality.
There will always be cracks and workaround for copyright protection. With Blu-Ray authenitcating(sp?) over a phoneline or broadband, i'm sure someone on the inside of SONY or whoever would be connected to, will find out how to fool the DVD into playing without actually connecting anywhere.
I have faith that people with more talent in the hacking/cracking business will find a way for me to play my DVDs (legal or not) without having to be tethered with a phoneline.
And while I think of it. What makes us so sure that Blu-Ray will even catch on? With all this stuff thats being said about it, why would people like us (the techsavy consumer) would even buy something like that? I know, that if there are two High-Def DVDs on the shelf, i'ma pick the one thats easiest to view. I know here in guam, internet/cable goes down all the time. What if I wanna watch the movie, but can't authenitcate to make the movie play, but my broadband is down and it can't connect? What do I do then... start at my staticy TV?
Alright, i'm done ranting since i'm not even sure where i'm going with all this.
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*Andersen AFB, Guam*
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Problem is so far both formats have said
two things that the existing system of
region coding is to be dropped but at the
same time they are claiming to the studios
even "better" control.
Here in the UK Rupert Murdoch/NEWS CORP
SKY television is in about 10 million
homes. Of whom an educated guess would be
about 2 million have SKY dish and receiver
systems as a result of taking up a SPECIAL]
OFFER. Which goes like this they have to pay
a £40 installation fee but get the receiver
and dish for "free". They then have to sign
a contract that obligates them to subscribe
to a premium package for two years or whatever.
There is also a clause in this contract which
demands that the receiver is connected to a
phone-line 24/7. No phone line no service!!
This is a reality in a couple of million
British households. Not a SciFi theory about
the future this has been going on since around
2000.
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I have two plans for this:
1. Not buy either, they seem completely pointless. What can't be done on DVD?
2. Not plug my DVD player into my phone line.
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No that is not true BLU-RAY can do a lot
existing DVD cannot.
But here is the thing. You are presuming
that SD DVD what you have now will just
continue. But for how long?
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Are you using a PC or MAC to type on this
post?
My point is the day you bring home a PC
you cannot use it until you register with
Microsoft. You have to click "I AGREE" if you
click "I DISAGREE" you can't use your PC.
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Check out this link it contains the smoking
gun. You need to understand that these
executives are slick and will not say anything
that is too literal in terms of what the
consumer will have to put up with.
But any engineer would tell you that the
smoking gun paragraph can only mean what
I have said...
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=1487
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SD DVD will continue for the simple reason that HD DVD is only good for software, for movies it can hold more special features, it can have more commentaries but they find enough trouble filling a 4.7gb DVD with special features, let alone a 50gb one. Give people an improvement like DVD over VHS and they'll flock to it, an improvement like HDDVD over DVD is pointless.
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Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
SD DVD will continue for the simple reason that HD DVD is only good for software, for movies it can hold more special features, it can have more commentaries but they find enough trouble filling a 4.7gb DVD with special features, let alone a 50gb one. Give people an improvement like DVD over VHS and they'll flock to it, an improvement like HDDVD over DVD is pointless.
I loves me some standard definition DVDs like a mofo, but saying that HD-DVD isn't an improvement over them is just ignoring the obvious.
They really don't have a problem filling 4.7 GB of DVD. Why do you think The Lord of the Rings extended editions are spread over so many discs? It's because they're trying to get the best quality video with the least amount of compression, which is often difficult. With HD-DVD, they'll need less compression, because they'll have much more space. Not to mention the fact that HD-DVDs have a much larger image resolution (I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it's a certainly a leap over the current 720x480 NTSC resolution). Basically, all of this spells a format that has clear improvements over the current one.
Of course, a lot of this won't be as evident on a normal television, which most of us have, but, to paraphrase Jackie Treehorn: wave of the future, Dude.
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I'm not saying it's not an improvement, I'm saying it's a pointless improvement.
Lord of the Rings is a special case, each extended version was essentially 2 films. One movie and one making of movie. But the point is, that's three movies. HDDVD lets you put all that one on disk but even then you've still only filled 1/10th of the available space. Hundreds of DVDs are released every year. What about non-epic movies, what are they going to do with it?
My point really is why would people want it. By the time your average Joe has a TV big enough to notice a quality difference something new will be along better than Blu-Ray, something which (hopefully) isn't just an improvement over the current system, but a new system worth upgrading to.
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I'm not sure if you realize how huge uncompressed video and audio can be. They are going to want to use as little compression as possible to maintain clarity, and the larger resolution, while providing an obvious boost in image quality, also means there's going to be more picture, which means more space taken up on the disc.
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