A reason to spur the growth of Blu-Ray?

[hothandiman]

In a way, I would think that the movie companies would want to spur the growth of blu-ray technology. With all the DVD copy programs out there, DVD duplication has now become easy for ANY Joe. Blu-Ray, with its advanced video encription could help stop the spread of so-called "piritated" movies. Of course this new enciption system would be "uncrackable"!!!

[Bob W]

Yes and it would also give them an excuse to raise the prices.

[Bob W]

Is this technology backward compatible with existing DVD players? If not it's going to be a hard sell.

[DivXExpert]

Build a better mouse trap, and you get a smarter mouse.

Nothing is "uncrackable".

BTW They are planning to have two lasers in the systems to make is backwards compatible. (Or so I read, correct me if I am wronge)

I am dumb, was that first post sarcastic?

[hothandiman]

You're right Bob. Just think about it. Only $25-$40 for a HDTV DVD! What bargin! Oh, yeah, were're rich!

We are talking billions here, right?

[flaninacupboard]

if they want a system that is not easy to crack they should switch back to analogue. a disc with two layers, read by seperate lasers at the same time, one with 11 megahertz of luminance information and the other with 11 megahertz of chromience information and whatever digital audio you like would be perfect. 11megahertz is hi-def resolution, there's no dot crawl, no problems with hue and tint, copying it is a pain in the arse, and it would look way better than any mpeg2 system, as no noise reduction filter would be required (makes a huge difference to films on old, degraded or cheap stock) and no artifacts would be present. or even better, a triple layer system with a red 11mhz layer, green 11mhz layer and blue 11mhz layer. that would look even better