I guess I should've put a few more words in there...not copyright for the format, but for the actual movies. I think one of the ways the US put the squeeze on China and other countries for piracy was that it could be exported to the us. With hd dvd dead, could they tell u.s. studios to pound sand?
I'm pragmatically still waiting for another closeout BH200 sale that will sell both dead formats when movies go the way of songs.....online.
"The next thing is digital downloads. Everyone agrees, the only thing is how fast it will spread.. I would say by end of next year it should get massive traction and most of the content will be available in HD too."
I don't think so. Most people actually don't agree.
The broadband infrastructure in the UK is already very slow due to people downloading shows and movies off of the BBC iPlayer etc. and without upgrading the entire country's broadband, it will stay this way
And I don't think that will be happening in the next few years. This is the same story in soo many other countries as well. So, everyone who is saying that physical media will be replaced within the next 10 years is sadly mistaken.
@Nfinity, the format is shares a lot of tech with HD DVD but it is not the same. Physically it is close except for modulation. But it uses different audio / video codecs, crypto / DRM, and interactive menus. No HD DVD player will ever play a CBHD disk and it seems unlikely to me that any CBHD player would bother to play HD DVD disks unless it implements the full HD DVD software stack. And that seems unlikely when HD DVD is dead and the exercise was to reduce foreign patents. If combo players do appear they will be CBHD / BD players, not HD DVD players.
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Kumar @ Jul 28th 2008 10:06AM
Before everyone piles on to Nfinity...again, think of this in another perspective.
A format that exists only in China...could that be a workaround to international copyright rules?
Kumar @ Jul 28th 2008 10:20AM
I guess I should've put a few more words in there...not copyright for the format, but for the actual movies. I think one of the ways the US put the squeeze on China and other countries for piracy was that it could be exported to the us. With hd dvd dead, could they tell u.s. studios to pound sand?
I'm pragmatically still waiting for another closeout BH200 sale that will sell both dead formats when movies go the way of songs.....online.
benny boy @ Jul 28th 2008 1:41PM
"The next thing is digital downloads. Everyone agrees, the only thing is how fast it will spread.. I would say by end of next year it should get massive traction and most of the content will be available in HD too."
I don't think so. Most people actually don't agree.
The broadband infrastructure in the UK is already very slow due to people downloading shows and movies off of the BBC iPlayer etc. and without upgrading the entire country's broadband, it will stay this way
And I don't think that will be happening in the next few years. This is the same story in soo many other countries as well. So, everyone who is saying that physical media will be replaced within the next 10 years is sadly mistaken.
Mark @ Jul 29th 2008 5:14AM
@Nfinity, the format is shares a lot of tech with HD DVD but it is not the same. Physically it is close except for modulation. But it uses different audio / video codecs, crypto / DRM, and interactive menus. No HD DVD player will ever play a CBHD disk and it seems unlikely to me that any CBHD player would bother to play HD DVD disks unless it implements the full HD DVD software stack. And that seems unlikely when HD DVD is dead and the exercise was to reduce foreign patents. If combo players do appear they will be CBHD / BD players, not HD DVD players.