Exactly…but. “The media, owned by the **AA is….”

They dont “own” them, they just share exatcly the same objectives…actually i think studios control MPAA, since it means”Motion Picture Association of America”, dont you?

They never fail

you’re right. But that’s because the joe 6 pack feels guilty when the **AA tell him that piracy is theft! A Sin!.

Since joe 6 pack is not a lawyer and “Thou shalt not BitTorrent files of dubious origin that may violate copyright in 7 of the following 8 and 3/4 cases and takes place in a country that has signed and ratified the WIPO treaties…. etc etc…”

The media, owned by the **AA is keeping joe six pack feeling immoral. Maybe that’s all they need to justify terrorizing the common folk with lawsuits and still seem like the “good guys.”

Now, instead of all those bonus materials you have on DVD’s, you will be forced to connect to the networks’ sites.

This is ANTI COMPETITIVE to piracy. the whole point of a BD disk is to skip the internet, not compete with free.

What would we do without the scene, is a hell I’d rather not walk in.

Rumors are just that …rumors!!

“HD-DVD no regions would have been the best solution imo.”
Exactly, studios prefer to limit you with regions,to control consumers…again , another reason for the Bluray victory…its just comercial politics.

and remenber…most consumers dont have a clue how to grab stuff from the interwebs…and they dont really care, because most people are against piracy from a ethical point a view.

There were rumors of 500 million dollars changing hands, allthough no one confirmed it, I (and many other) thinks it did happen.

And look what the security is doing to BR now? Tons and tons of releases, that is what the “experts” said would take years.

Blu-ray is very good, and I have no problems using it (have a PS3) but it’s not the most user friendly format. HD-DVD no regions would have been the best solution imo.

In China u can buy and original DVD for $1….coz apparently they wanna stop piracy, but in other countrues we gotta pay $20 for a movie…what gives

So basically if u can afford to pay more…they charge more…

The whole point of Blu-Ray is the big data capacity. I think this Blu-Ray live or whatever is just a marketing ploy. It really serves no purpose to the consumer.

I am just going to stick to my 5gb DVDRs and my 700mb avi rips.

Who really has the cash to blow on Blu-Ray crap?

I have not bought or burned a DVD in ages. I just collect the films on my HDD to watch through my widescreen monitor or my 4:3 TV.

Only trouble is that if my HDD ever fails I’m screwed. I have 1TB of HDDs atm but as prices continue to fall I will buy another 500gb to backup onto.

Yep…and money grows on trees…

As for saying that BD-Live movies wont work in old players, they will you just wont be able to access the BD-Live features which would include online games, online chatting etc…

PPl saying “Why not put the features on the disc”, They do this to give further updates to the movie, like deleted scenes that would’ve not been released when the movie came out, add some games, or Trailers. You also got to note that Even though Blu-ray discs come in at 25GB per layer, we are not dealing with Crappy MPEG-2, low bitrate movies, Most of these new releases are around 25mbp/s for video and about 6mbp/s for audio, This can fill up a disc pretty quick, (especially HDDuD discs)

@18
Sony bought off all the companies? wait you mean Toshiba didn’t Pay Paramount/Dreamworks to go HDDuD exclusive? then who did Toshiba give those $150,000,000 to? Sony Didn’t pay Disney/Fox or WB to go Blu they did it because they knew what the better Format was. as for BD+ being cracked you forget that Blu-ray has more security than that, AACS,BD+, and BD-Mark, hopefully they don’t go with BD-Mark but if BD+ remains crackable maybe it will become a reality.

All the people Bashing Sony over BD-Live, Why bash on BD? when HDDuD had it u ppl were going Ape $h1T over it. now u say it is useless and why don’t they put it on a disc?

@Fizzycakes
do you mind explaining these strengths of HDDuD? let me see BD has 54mbps of raw bandwith vs 36.5mbps of bandwith for HDDuD let me see what is better? 25gb per layer vs 15gb per layer, hmmmmm….? now with Blu-Ray CE’s making BD-Live players HDDuD doesn’t even compare, even tho its a dead format now anyways. Also note that Toshiba bought out Paramount/Dreamworks, ever wonder why? they Went Dud right b4 release of Blades of Glory, why is this important? Probably because Starting with Blades of Glory PAramount said they would be using LPCM audio for all future releases, most HDDuD titles wouldn’t be able to cope with the bandwith or the amount of space LPCM takes up, so PAramount would Release a HDDuD and Blu-ray movie at the same time, one would have Lossless audio the other wouldn’t. if yo uwere neutral what would you get?