Topic: Blue Ray and the Cost of a PS3

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: wandering
But when high definition Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and Titanic are on the line, it's hard to see people taking a stand....

There were a lot of great films on laser disc, which was vastly superior to VHS... yet it didn't catch on. Simply having great movies in slightly better quality will not attract customers, they need more than that, and if they honestly go as far as to charge for extra content (which people will have to access online, ie not average joe friendly) then that's a huge strike against it. Even if they don't, they still have a lot of work to try and convince consumers to adopt another format so soon.

[KDR_11k]

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Originally posted by: Galford
I haven't read that article yet, but I 'm not surprised.  What the article doesn't elaborate, is both HD-DVD and Blu-ray have tcp/ip and http connections built into the standard.  One "feature" being talked about is content being stored on disk and then having to pay for over the internet to enable.

Welcome to the New World Order...

Ever played Half-Life 2?

[Epitaph]

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k

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Originally posted by: Galford
I haven't read that article yet, but I 'm not surprised.  What the article doesn't elaborate, is both HD-DVD and Blu-ray have tcp/ip and http connections built into the standard.  One "feature" being talked about is content being stored on disk and then having to pay for over the internet to enable.

Welcome to the New World Order...

Ever played Half-Life 2?

If your talking about half-life's 2 copyprotection it was cracked pretty much upon release. The crack just used a fake version of the steam engine and allows you to play.

[Galford]

I have never played Half-Life 2.  I own an ancient P2-based Celeron system with an 810 video card.  For sound I have one of the original AC97 codecs ever made, the Conexant Riptide chipset.  To put it mildly, my computer is old.

Wasn't the big thing about HL2 was, when it was released early, no one could play b/c Valve wasn't allowed to release the activation keys early?

[KDR_11k]

Epitaph: Yes but who says there won't be a way to crack Bluray?

[Galford]

Blur-ray and HD-DVD will be cracked, my guess is first on the PC then the player hacks will come.
Such is they way of things...

[Epitaph]

Another interesting note dvd-john, the man who cracked the dvd protection has already vowed he will crack hd-dvd and blue ray discs. He also stated he would continue to do this untill the media companys stop putting so many restrictions on the discs.

[UncleBob]

Well, that's stupid...

"I'll stop picking locks when people stop locking their doors!"

[KDR_11k]

More like "I'll stop picking locks when people stop padlocking my door".

[UncleBob]

No, no... I was just point out that he wouldn't need to "crack" things if there wasn't restrictions on them, therefore his statement is stupid.

None the less, no company forces you to buy CDs, DVDs or computer software that has restrictions on it you don't like.

[KDR_11k]

Of course not. The problem is that too many people swallow it hook, line and sinker so there's no way to prevent all future releases (and I mean that as in "you won't see a single unrestricted release") from incorporating some idiotic restrictions that only piss people off.

[jasonditz]

Better still is when they go the Sony route and use the audio CD you just bought to hack your PC.

Or the Sony route from a few years ago where when you inserted their audio CD in an iMac it would destroy your (non-user servicable) CD-ROM drive.