I can tell you several good reasons to remove support - licence fees, and maintainability. HD DVD may be dead but that doesn't mean its free. And continuing to develop, QA test and support a dead format will be an ongoing financial burden which is totally unjustified. If CyberLink rewrote or refactored their codebase, they'd be forced to ensure HD DVD continued to work which would be a significant and unnecessary cost.
It sucks. On the bright side, I expect Videolan will eventually support the HD DVD or at least the container format so that you can rip and play the content.
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DrXym @ Apr 11th 2008 5:38AM
I can tell you several good reasons to remove support - licence fees, and maintainability. HD DVD may be dead but that doesn't mean its free. And continuing to develop, QA test and support a dead format will be an ongoing financial burden which is totally unjustified. If CyberLink rewrote or refactored their codebase, they'd be forced to ensure HD DVD continued to work which would be a significant and unnecessary cost.
It sucks. On the bright side, I expect Videolan will eventually support the HD DVD or at least the container format so that you can rip and play the content.