yeah those that aren’t protected with BD+ but there are already a lot of BD+ protected BluRays out there that cannot be ripped and a lot will follow. please, before you spread false information, educate yourself next time.

That poster (weiler) is smoking crack, probably with Amy Winehouse. The entire post is full of half truths, false and old information.

Points 4 & 5 have some relevance although there are NO plans to use the 51GB HD DVD disc for movies at this point in time and there probably never will be and most of the movie studio’s don’t like the region free idea (stated in my previous post).

The link in point 8 is also a year old and no longer relevant as Sony didn’t block porn from coming out on Blu-ray. This is a very different stance to the one it had in the days of Betamax vs VHS.

Point 7 is laughable “you can’t rent BD’s”. I almost wet myself reading that.

True or paranoid myth?

Although region media is what the consumer wants, the film studios do not and are not happy with it. That is just one reason why Disney (as an example) is with Blu-ray.

@38

Toshiba demanded that Sony (at the other companies) use M$’s HDi over JAVA from Sun Microsystems. Sony (and the other companies) told Toshiba that this wasn’t going to happen. Toshiba then left the project and created a new format with M$ and several other companies.

@various others

Streaming media will take it’s time to become popular but you’re having a laugh if you think that it will be cheap, at least within the next 5 years anyway. More and more ISP’s are starting to cap users bandwidth or charge users differently (I assume that you all read and understood this article: http://www.rlslog.net/time-warner-to-bill-internet-per-download/)

This will probably become permanent because they can make more money providing the same service and they hope that this will slow down the network congestion by this small percentage of users.

Some good news for the UK : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7202396.stm but this won’t be completed until 2010. BT are doing their own residential test but they say it will take about 12 years to reach 10,000 homes.

We have yet to see how much they will charge for this 100Mbps service.

So for the next 10 or so years, purchased physical media will still be the way that legitimate people choose to have their film collections.

@8 point 4

HD DVD can only read up to 10 layers due to limitations in the hardware specification (fact). The largest possible HD DVD can hold 170GB @ 17GB per layer. Blu-ray on the other hand is 250GB @ 25GB per layer blowing HD DVD out of the water.

Another reason why HD DVD will fail is that you cannot use it as a storage medium because you cannot buy a HD DVD writer (yet). Toshiba are too late in the game. This war will be decided by what’s available for the consumer and the movie houses. Larger movie library for Blu-ray do to the massive studio backing. Blu-ray writers are available to purchase now. Blu-ray will win.

If you think I’m a fanboy, fine, I don’t care. What you cannot deny is that everything written here is true.

gg

No you need to learn how to read. I said there will be NEVER be non-drm legal downloads. I don’t want to use a proprietary device that won’t let me transfer movies to other players….

As for plenty of players that play non-drm HD show me at least ONE standalone divx player that will play .mkv? or even HD divx for that matter!!
All they do is upscale…