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Because it's not ready for primetime. Their hardware launch wasn't ready either. For all the whining about Blu-ray being later and DL being "impossible", HD DVD still isn't all shaken out. Microsoft, however, has been doing their damndest to push the format. With almost every big player at Microsoft calling for an end to physical media, it's almost as if they're trying to prolong a format war in order to kill off both just to improve their market share in the content distro and DRM fields. But Microsoft would never be so underhanded, right?]]>May 25th 2006 9:36AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/
Since Sony was getting so much heat from their DRM and thinking they may loose the format war because of it, they decided to lighten up on the DRM for now, and later down the road, when they win the format war, they will re-enable their restrictive DRM. ]]>May 25th 2006 12:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/
This is the same company who requires you to phone home every once in a while to "authenticate" your own operating system, even if you're just installing a new video card. It's the one who pioneered the "you can't play it even though you bought it" DRM on Windows Media Video/Audio (used on HD DVD)?

Please. It's about money, pure and simple. Kill the format, kill the console, kill the distribution.]]>May 25th 2006 3:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/May 25th 2006 3:16PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/
Your forgetting BD+

The BDA also adopted "BD+", a Blu-ray Disc specific programmable renewability
enhancement that gives content providers an additional means to respond to organized
attacks on the security system by allowing dynamic updates of compromised code. With
these enhancements, content providers have a number of methods to choose from to combat
hacks on Blu-ray players. Moreover, BD+ affects only players that have been attacked, as
opposed to those that are vulnerable but haven't been attacked and therefore continue to
operate properly.

link: http://www.blu-raydisc.com/assets/downloadablefile/050809-13034.pdf]]>May 25th 2006 4:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-pushes-hd-dvd/
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