RSSBlu-ray to Outline Launch Plans at CES
By Ed Oswald | Published November 30, 2005, 10:28 AM
Blu-ray assured reporters and analysts at a demonstration Tuesday that the new DVD format is still on schedule for a spring 2006 release. The Sony-led group said it also planned to have specific launch plans available in the form of product announcements at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
While the format seems to have the upper hand in the next-generation DVD war, recent questions have arisen over its manufacturing cost and once strong supporter HP has begun to waver in recent months. Sony has shot back, saying production costs will become competitive soon after manufacturing begins.
Sony DRM is now no better or worse than HDDVD DRM. They also both have managed copy now. Read about your subject first please!
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|Incorrect. Sony has only allowed a very limited managed copy on Bluray. HD-DVD has a more laxed Managed Copy policy.
BOYCOTT SONY K THANKS for watching.
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|HD-DVD all the waaaayyy, BluRay is BS, & u all know the reasons ..
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|Blu-Ray has nothing to do with DRM lol it's the next format for CDc & DVDs it's actually HD CD & DVD which will allow us to put 50Gigs to 60 Gigs on 1 disc instead of 4.7 and dual layer. It's really great and revalutionary. Remember when RW- & RW+ first came out and half of the big companies had one format and the other half had the other format? Well this is the same thing. Sony, Disney, & lots of other big companies have Blu-Ray and HP has the other format. If you guys want to have 100's of disks laying around vs a few that's your perogative, but personally I can't wait for these new discs. I have over 2Terabytes on my computer now and backing up will be so much easier. Also by the way, a few weeks ago Sony had to stop producing disks with their DRM spyware according to a new law. So you have nothing to worry about on that front anymore either. If you want to know more just Google it :)
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|"Blu-Ray has nothing to do with DRM"
Get a clue and look at the design. It's LOADED with some of the most insidious DRM copy protection created yet.
I'll take less capacity over typical Sony-proprietary overpriced technology, specially designed in this case to follow the company's Draconian DRM policy and give it and the entertainment industry a choke-hold on consumer rights.
We don't want or need that.
Toss it.
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|It's Sony.
It's DRM-filled.
Kill it.
Too bad for the other companies - they should have known better than to get in bed with Sony. Beta was a terrific case in point. Maybe they'll think twice next time.
Wait for a third, consumer oriented contender with no DRM. There's no rush and if you don't buy, they'll get the message.
They'll have no choice.
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|I predict HD-DVD will become the winner. Sony has always been about proprietary overpriced junk, and their recent behavior hasn't helped improve my opinion of them.
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|Price seems to always be the deciding factor in the end, so I agree HD-DVD all the way.
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|you guys will only be hurting sony just a pinch, but you'll be hurting the thousands of other companies that have taken part in this project.
http://www.blu-ray.com/images/ifa2005/bda_06.jpg
if you look sony isn't even the first on the list...
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|Sony is the head of this. Its Sony BluRay period. They are the ones trying to push some ridiculous DRM solutions on to this disc.
This is basically cause and effect.
They screwed their customers with their Music CDS and the effect will be a backlash across all product lines.
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|Uh, Sony's not first because the tech companies are listed ALPHABETICALLY (left-to-right) in that photo!!! Duh.
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|bahahahaha.... hilarious!
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|Yup!
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|Sony backed!
BOYCOTT SONY and all their products.
What do you think they will cloak in a piece of hardware!
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|Blu-ray/HD DVD Could Become Irrelevant as HVD Nears
http://biz.gamedaily.com...cle_id=11193&filter=
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|Sit it out.
Nobody >needs< to run right out and get a new format player. And, if you did, why buy the media? They will be backward compatible.
Choke the dueling companies, don't buy video in the new format. More money there than in hardware sales.
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|Sony can take their bluray and shove it were the sun dont shine.. I am one that wont be buying any bluray stuff.
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|This is very good, but very bad at the same time...
The Consumer is going to get screwed so bad by the war between BD-Rom and HD-DVD...
Hopfully they'll pick a clear winner.
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