http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/ Engadget HD Comments for Samsung to release BD+ update this friday http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/Oct 10th 2007 3:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/Oct 10th 2007 5:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/
Interactivity will be a nice additional point (when it's the consumers own chosen activity) for some but if they're seriously expecting older less tech-savvy people to regularly use the net for updates they are deluded.
They are simply not going to use this.

If you start telling them that their new DVD player won't even work without constant 'security' up-dates etc you're looking at a prime recipe for major chunks of the market staying with what they have (SD DVD).

If ever there was a clumsy stupid counter-productive clunky garbage idea it is this one.

......and for what?
To keep the multi-million $ 'security gravy-train' rolling at the 'ordinary' consumer's expense?
(cos it sure as hell won't really be 'stopping' any serious 'pirate')

This 'DRM'/'security' is going to be a large part of the reason why Blu-ray will fail IMO.

Game console owners mightn't care about this kind of crap (well, that is right up until it stops their console working properly) but you can be sure the wider a/v market will not like it.

As for the other CE corporations backing Blu-ray?
My bet is that they are thrilled at how they have spent vast sums developing BD & on new plant only to see their 'partners' Sony have locked out almost everyone & everything but their PS3 (and to a much lesser extent the S300). Not.

Samsung went dual.
LG went dual and I don't expect them to be that last.

The PS3 just isn't shifting enough movies and HD DVD is selling strongly and growing as BD stagnates.
IMO HD DVD will confound the projections of many and win the (far larger) a/v market.
Blu-ray will be to the PS3 as UMD is to the PSP.
A market of millions worth selling to for some time, of course, but basically dead and going nowhere.

]]>Oct 10th 2007 6:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/There were controlled rights on UMD, bad bad analogy. Sadly, even a smart red camp guy would agree with me.]]>Oct 10th 2007 6:24PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/Oct 10th 2007 8:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/
*SIGH*

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We're finally at the point now where Companys are releasing DRM FREE Music, and yet people want Double that Garbage on Movie Disc's. WHY?? Are you people nuts? Sony has just been so great with this DRM crap in the past. Man are fanboys blind.
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C'mon..it's naive to think the BD camp is putting all this extra DRM/security into their spec for the consumer. I've never read or heard of a single consumer advocating BD+, AACS, or any other form of DRM on their Blu-Ray discs.

Isn't it obvious that this security is being implemented in favor of (and probably at the request of) the industry? I'm sure if the MPAA could have it their way, we as consumers would have to download some 'Security Patch' update every week or more.

I've always been in favor of BD due to it's technical specs - but the BDA can only turn their back on the consumer in favor of the industry for so long. As Interested Watcher stated, it's ridiculous to think that the average av guy will put up with required 'updates' just to watch a retail movie he bought.]]>Oct 11th 2007 9:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/10/samsung-to-release-bd-update-this-friday/
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