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  1. Comment - Gates: Blu-ray DRM is 'Anti-Consumer'

    (Oct 18, 2005 - 7:02 PM)

    Hi from Norway.
    Of course it's pretty damn obvious for all of us on this Forum to understand that regardless of whether it's going to be HD or Blu-Ray, they will get cracked etc inside my fried egg and toast is done.

    But, I don't think that's the point. While regular DVD's will still have a good market share in the future, this is largely a question for the pro film industry.
    They will be shipping out their High Res stuff to the stores for the High Res Plasma screens lining our bedrooms and living rooms.

    The film equipment to start with is a fair buck to get, and then to tinker with it, and burn it out is of course something we will all want to do, and even if we don't see any quality improvement, we will still SAY it.
    Just as burning a CD today works roughly the same as my old SyQuest.

    The battle boiled down to price.
    As this will.

    I have already seen several FREE HD plugins for Adobe Premiere and Ulead "something" (think it was VideoSt. or MediaSt. or both?).
    So, this will probably be a regular codec "thingy", once the input devices are readily available.
    Output too of course, hence all this.

    As time goes on, the quality of all of this stuff has become hugely better!!! It takes a galactic idiot not to see that.
    Sure, if you look at a car wheels, its traction etc was figured out a long time ago, as was the physics around sound from loud speakers. All very physical attributes to their particular purpose.

    But this is tech stuff, and bits and bytes Light Amplified by Stimulated Emission Radiation etc.
    Call it a microscopic wheel if you really must, but the microscope just leaped a big step into the future. And I am glad I'm here to see it... I hope.

    Bill seeing into the future you say?
    Well, I recon he can probably see better into the tech future than all of us here, even if he gets stuff wrong from time to time.

    Bill might be an a** etc, but, his stuff has worked well for me, most of the time. So, I don't have a problem with MS stuff.

    I don't know enough about Blu Ray or HD to actually understand what the consumer problem is with it though.
    But Windows is at least in my opinion extremely user friendly. But then again, so is anything once you're used to it, and thanks to his ability to market stuff, most people have it.

    And before you all jump down my throat, yes, I am aware of the security issues etc etc etc with it. But this is not about MS, it's the High Res stuff.

    We all went for the DV stuff when it came, regardless of the Super High 8 and all the other weird formats from the 90's.
    Do any of you really think for a second that the next jump up is not going to be accepted?

    Of course it will!
    It's our "d***-Extension" of this centuary.
    Get real.
    -I can see the difference already haha.