[The General]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/23/1931236.shtml

[Snake-Eyes]

Good game.

[Apokalipse]

It was always going to happen.

I mean, I do buy DVD's legitimately and everything, but DRM just sucks.

[The General]

Originally posted by Apokalipse
It was always going to happen.

I mean, I do buy DVD's legitimately and everything, but DRM just sucks.

Exactly, it's not that I want to download or pirate these movies, I'll buy HD-DVD's, etc ... I just want the ability to back them up, make copies, etc.

[Snake-Eyes]

Originally posted by The General
Exactly, it's not that I want to download or pirate these movies, I'll buy HD-DVD's, etc ... I just want the ability to back them up, make copies, etc.

Ditto, big time.

[King X13]

all im gonna say is theres no way i am going to contribute to an actor getting 20 million for a movie and buying a 1,000 dollar device(blu ray player) to play the movie on. i havent bought a DVD in about 5 years nor will i. specially with the MPAA's rules on copyright where your not even allowed to show a friend the movie you bought. when you buy a movie only you are allowed to watch it and have to buy the movie for each addional person watching. just for the stupidity of saying that i will never contribute to there earnings.

just my view.

[The General]

Originally posted by King X13
all im gonna say is theres no way i am going to contribute to an actor getting 20 million for a movie

It's because of people like you that we have DRM. You just don't get it - that 20 million dollars doesn't just come out of no where, it comes from buying DVDs and movie tickets. This is not at all like buying MP3s which cost nothing to reproduce, DVD's and movie tickets actually have cost, so that is why I will pay it.

Originally posted by King X13
and buying a 1,000 dollar device(blu ray player) to play the movie on.

Right, that's why everyone said when DVD came out, now look how many people have DVD players. What's VHS? Oh, that's right people even said that about VHS players. Bottom line, you are skewing reality by saying these machines cost $1000. Sure, the high end ones do, but last I checked, the cheapest HD-DVD player is $199 for the Xbox360 one, and like $399 for the Toshiba. HD-DVD's cost about the same as DVD's.

Originally posted by King X13
i havent bought a DVD in about 5 years nor will i.

Like I said, it's people like you that cause DRM. Thank you so much for this lovely DRM you bestowed upon us.

Originally posted by King X13
specially with the MPAA's rules on copyright where your not even allowed to show a friend the movie you bought.

You completely and totally misunderstand the rules. You can't have a home theatre and charge your friends and entry fee. They are not for commercial use. You are allowed to show your friends, if you believe otherwise, you are either an ape, or blind deaf and retarded.

Originally posted by King X13
when you buy a movie only you are allowed to watch it and have to buy the movie for each addional person watching.

Now you're just blatantly lying to skew reality once again and make the movie industry seem worse that they are.

Originally posted by King X13
just for the stupidity of saying that i will never contribute to there earnings.

just my view.

Well your view is flawed. Don't get me wrong, the way the movie industry goes about stuff is flawed to. But at least point out flaw that actually exist, like DRM, not fake made up stuff about license agreements and movies with your friends, because I'm willing to bet you just totally pull that out of your *** thinking it would make you sound cool to hate the movie industry.

Get real, dude.

[uzi9mm]

Blu-Ray is going to win the format war.

Thats all I have to say.

[The General]

Originally posted by uzi9mm
Blu-Ray is going to win the format war.

Thats all I have to say.

Why would they? There's a shortage of Blu-Ray diodes, lack of porn, and they are more expensive (HD-DVD's are ~$20, BD's are ~$30). The video quality is 100% exactly the same, the only thing that will change is that Sony wants to have complete and total control over the world and everyone and what they do, so they will lose. Just watch, it happened with Beta-Max, it will happen with this.

The only thing I could see happening other than Sony losing the war would be that the majority of movies and players end up being cross compatible, that other something comes along with no DRM that blows them both out of the market.

[TheOtis]

I wonder if once word REALLY gets out that you can use a xbox360 hd-dvd player on your computer, if hd-dvd sales would go up at all.