http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/ Engadget HD Comments for Live from the 2009 Blu-ray Disc Association press conference http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.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://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 8th 2009 7:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 8th 2009 7:44PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 8th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
What would help the situation enormously is if portable devices adopted a single profile & level of AVC/AAC for audio/video and a single DRM for management. That way it doesn't matter what device you have, just that it supports some common platform and away you go - buy content or use managed copy from anywhere to anything.

It's no wonder managed copy got stuck on the backburner.]]>Jan 9th 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 8th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 8th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
My Hitman disc came with a digital copy and I added it to my iTunes and iPod Touch for shits & giggles, but doubt I'll ever watch it. And honestly I'd rather pay $1 less for a disc that doesn't include it.

Just my thoughts on the matter...]]>Jan 8th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
none of their computers can play a blu-ray movie. i'd rather have cheaper blu-ray movies, the point of higher end discs is to watch in high def, not low-fi on an ipod.]]>Jan 9th 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 4:41AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
This was not fun to read and must have been really lame to sit through.]]>Jan 8th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 8th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
Mmhmm, that's what I thought.]]>Jan 8th 2009 10:29PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
The servers failed on the BD Update for Iron Man alone and you think we're ready for digital distribution of HD audio/video?]]>Jan 9th 2009 12:13AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/]]>Jan 9th 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 12:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 3:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
Fact of the matter is, most people don't care that much in such a incremental step above DVD. But don't bash me because I have four BD players total and about 300+ discs. I'm in it either way, I just don't understand why it's so important for all the BD people to keep telling us how awesome they are and how awesome the product is and how much better it's doing than DVD. The product, once shown to the consumer, should sell it self and honestly, other than a slightly improved picture and better sound (which most people don't get the benefit of because they don't have anything to replicate it) it's pretty much the same. Not the huge leap DVD was over VHS.

And my God, when the hell can I just put a BD in and have it loaded in under an amount of time that doesn't make me think to myself "I hate Java"? ]]>Jan 9th 2009 1:03AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
I have a Panasonic 30, a Sony 350, a Pioneer 05FD and the PS3.]]>Jan 9th 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 4:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/Jan 9th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/live-from-the-2009-blu-ray-disc-association-press-conference/
hell it was an article on here a while back that said BD Recorders were outsellfing DD recorders........]]>Jan 9th 2009 9:39AM