"JohnTitor @ Oct 27th 2008 7:35PM

what really sad is we missed a nice potential with VHS, when data's stored digitally you can make a lot of use for it, D-VHS movies can be upto 1080P and look as good as the expensive Blu-Ray, sans the MPAA's DRMs"

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Umm, DVHS had an ever worse form of DRM called 5C which is yet to have a widespread easy hack.

What a silly article. Jobs' complaint about blu-ray was about the supposed licensing issues not about being unable to deliver the hardware. There have been mac blu-ray drives and PC blu-ray laptops for some time now. There is nothing special about this drive. There is no blu-ray playback software for the Mac so I'm not sure what "ability to watch and burn Blu-ray Discs" means. Do some fact checking.

Of course we all know the reason for Apple's procrastinating on blu-ray is that they see iTunes/AppleTV as a direct competitor to it.

http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=94567&postcount=17



And I saved the best for last:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1102172#post1102172

"the work on BD+ actually only really started early January 2008."



So obviously he is lying somewhere.

Errr thats just the same press release that this article is about. I'm talking about posts like these:

http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=78484&postcount=9

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=dbff5112fe2365ef2cec24075b51bb86&p=1099973#post1099973

http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=92621&postcount=20

This is total BS. You can go onto Slysoft's own forum or Doom9 and read the posts from Peer himself where he talks about trying to crack BD+ for the last 5 months. He kept mentioning over and over that it was just taking them longer than they anticipated because there was no documentation. He never said anything about sitting on the crack for the last 5 months and waiting for the end of the format war.

If Slysoft was such a big supporter of HDDVD why in the world would they wait until AFTER the format is dead before releasing a crack for BD+? If they released it when the war was still happening it could have actually had some effect. I don't know why they are spreading this nonsense to their customers now. Just say it took you a few months to crack it. Whats the big deal?

"When you find them, you should probably also pick up an appreciation
for good movies."


Yeah I guess only Paramount and Universal make good movies. Lol.
Enjoy your 2 studios on your cheap player.

"When you find them, you should probably also pick up an appreciation for good movies."


Yeah I guess only Paramount and Universal make good movies. Lol. Enjoy your 2 studios on your cheap player.

Blu-ray Profiles are not necessary either. And since blu-ray sales have been doing so well without frivolous features like PiP and online that should tell you how important those features are to hi-def consumers.

And in fact 90% of blu-ray owners will be getting a FREE update on their PS3.

Not to mention other things like not having 1080p output until over a year after launch. And if you bought a player before that? Well too bad. And I don't think every player supports DTS-MA either. So much for being "fully finished".

Wow thats great that HDDVD is so cheap and "fully working". Sounds like a good buy. Can you tell me where I can get Ratatoulie, Cars, Spider-man, and Die Hard on HDDVD? Thanks.