It's official Blu-Ray wins!

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countzero wrote:
you know, I can't even imagine connecting a blueray to my amiga, let alone find 50 gb of data to fill it with

I can, on both counts.

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bloodline wrote:

alenppc wrote:
I am glad that at last M$ lost at *something*. If you read about it, the whole issue started with M$ not wanting to use Java but insisting on their own proprietary crap, that's how the Blu/HD formats split.

While I totally agree about how good it is that M$ have got shafted... I actually prefer their interactive content system over the Java one... If you look at the HDi System it's based on ECMA script and XML... which I think is superior to the Java based VM system that the BlueRay guys went with...

Superior in what way? It's easier to create content with HD-DVD's scripting system, but Java is more powerful. Disney, in particular, loved this, as including extras such as games really fits in well with the kind of movies they make.

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A6000 wrote:
If I ever fit a 20+ GB hard drive in my Amiga I will need a Blu-ray writer to back it up.
The alternative is to use about 24,000 Floppy disks. :-)

I already have an 80 GB drive in my Amiga (A1-XE), so I'm already there. I'll be waiting until Bluray rewriters drop under $100 first though.

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Trev wrote:
3) HD-DVD lacked region coding. Add to that the Blu-Ray "feature" that allows a vendor to disable your player on the fly if it thinks it's been tampered with, Sony's typical proprietary license structure, and the lack of direct retail competition (apart from legacy DVD), and Blu-Ray is going to have consumers bending over and taking it for years to come.

Actually, both formats have region coding, and both formats are designed to allow studios to disable your player if they think that it's been tampered with (it's called key revoking). I'm pretty sure that this is something that the studios insisted on having in return for their support.

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@Trev

You're right about the region coding, which they were, at one stage going to have.

AFAIK, player key revocation exists for HD-DVD. They're using the same content protection system as Blu-Ray.

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