Microsoft on every DVD?

[JohnnyCNote]

This was on CNet.com:

Microsoft on every DVD?

update An industry standards group has made a preliminary decision to include Microsoft's video compression technology in a next-generation DVD format, giving the company a key boost in the digital media arena.

The steering committee for the DVD Forum on Friday announced provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 and two other video technologies--H.264 and MPEG-2--as mandatory for the HD-DVD video specification for playback devices. VC-9 is the reference title for the underlying video decoding technology within Windows Media Video 9. The approval is subject to several conditions, including an update in 60 days of licensing terms and conditions.

[vcdforme]

Hahahahaha!

Does that mean my DVD player will now CRASH as often
as my WINDOWS systems... Hahahahah!

Doesn't really matter does it, the new Chinese EVD system
will be the winner.

[Rillern]

i hope there will be Ctrl, Alt, Delete buttons on the remote

[The village idiot]

I hope that doesn't mean DRM will be on every disk, causing us to connect our HD-DVD player to the internet each time we want to play a movie.

[robertazimmerman]

Ok. Let's go folks. Time to develop software that strips out Microsoftware just like we can strip out region codes and Macrovision.

"If it's made by Microsoft, it ain't gonna work" (Mr. Ellison)

[jntaylor63]

Let the Microsoft bashing begin!

I for one am glad that the new HD-DVD will natively support 3 codecs. (I would guess that it should support MPEG-1 with MPEG-2 on board.) It is also possible to get more DivX and XviD support with the H.264 MPEG-4 codec as well. So, now we could get 3 to 6 codecs in a standalone! By having more choices, everyone wins. Studios can pick their codec to encode that’s best for them and so can we. I’m sorry but MS was the first to put a major HD Movie on a DVD-9 disk with great results. Regardless of your personal feelings, WMV-9 is a valid HD codec, and so are the rest chosen as the standard.

I truly doubt that you will have to plug your player into the Internet to play back the movie. The disk and all of its content will be protected by some new, super protection system. (Not a good thing for those of use who legally back-up the movies that we own. Guess we'll need a super DVD Decript!)


VCDofrme; as to the China EVD beating HD-DVD, I wouldn’t bet the farm. It fizzled on its first opening and Hollywood is not going to support a foreign standard that was created as club to beat them over the head with. Remember, the Movie studios are on the DVD Forum board and who set the standards. You'll see EVD in China, the rest of the world will get HD-DVD.

So that aside, would the powers that be, get to work on my HD-DVD / DivX palyer for X-Mas!

[teegee420]

"If it's made by Microsoft, it ain't gonna work" (Mr. Ellison)

Harlan Ellison?

[The village idiot]

I truly doubt that you will have to plug your player into the Internet to play back the movie. The disk and all of its content will be protected by some new, super protection system. (Not a good thing for those of use who legally back-up the movies that we own. Guess we'll need a super DVD Decript!)

I think all the new codecs might be good, but remember that HD version of Terminator 2? You only had 5 days to watch it, and you had to get your key from the internet connection. Superduper encryption is fine by me, just as long as you don't have to connect to get your key.

[nufan292]

For T2 HD, wasn't the recommended computer specs like P4 3.0, I though it was. If so, that leaves out a whole lot of people.

[BobK]

> The disk and all of its content will be protected by some new, super protection system. (Not a good thing for those of use who legally back-up the movies that we own. Guess we'll need a super DVD Decript!)

Every protection system is new and super when it first comes out. And every one is broken shorly after that.

[robertazimmerman]

"If it's made by Microsoft, it ain't gonna work" (Mr. Ellison)

Harlan Ellison?

Nah........Sun.

Roberta