Well, that about wraps it up for blu-ray.

[valioso]

hd-dvd can be played on regular dvd players?

 

[rabidrabbit]

Did they also do it with Bluetooth?
Look at Bluetooth now, and the amazing non-working Windows Bluetooth drivers that take over the working manufacturer drivers as soon as you're not looking.

 

[London Geezer]

hd-dvd can be played on regular dvd players?

Uhm no.

 

[valioso]

Uhm no.

ok I guess I got confused with the wording on the article

 

[Nite_Hawk]

It is rather interesting that intel is backing HD-DVD while apple is backing blueray. I wonder if intel will be adding in any kind of bios support for blueray drives in the new intel based macs. (Assuming they are doing anything more than just supplying the CPU).

Nite_Hawk

 

[London Geezer]

I must admit, it's one hell of an article...

especially this part:

The company plans to build support only for HD-DVD into its next PC operating system, Windows Vista, which means that using Blu-ray products will require installing additional software, according to The Journal story.

As if we don't need to install all kinds of software even when the peripheral IS supported by Windows!

 

[J_Saint]

hd-dvd can be played on regular dvd players?

The format itself no, as London-boy stated. However, they are looking to release dual format releases with HD-DVD on one side and DVD on the other.

 

[StefanS]

The format itself no, as London-boy stated. However, they are looking to release dual format releases with HD-DVD on one side and DVD on the other.

Isn't that a solution that'd work for Blu-Ray as well?

 

[rumaki]

Speaking as Joe AV consumer

Both standards are dead to me, I have far too many DVD's to pick a new format before either one has reached dominance and thats just the bottom line.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Not that I really wish to get involved in the format pissing wars, but this appears to be related.

 

[London Geezer]

Not that I really wish to get involved in the format pissing wars, but this appears to be related.

TROLL!! Can we get this Dave Ballman guy banned once and for all?!

 

[RobHT]

I just don't get why MS is so adamantly supporting HD-DVD.
Initially only the HD-DVD camp was supporting MS CODECS but BluRay has long since relented.
Now, why does MS care? Is HD-DVD really going to provide more leniencies with copying movies onto servers? I would think this would be left solely up to the studios.
Could this just be more saber rattling to get the BluRay camp to offer less stringent DRM?

Regardless of what the press release says, BluRay offers more storage capacity and is more scalable for even more storage capacity in the future. And even the HD-DVD camp concedes that their burners won't work in laptops! Consumes too much energy! Where does MS and Intel think the PC market is heading???

I don't get it.

 

[c0_re]

Wow I'm a little surprised it's a pretty bold move by Intel and Microshaft, this could put the scare into PC manufactured though, you know if Intel and M$ back it the big boys will all fall inline.

Like I've said all along(even though I think BR is currently winning) the porn industry will decide the winner and they will choose whatever is easier and cheaper to manufacture and we all know that is HD-DVD.

With Sony basing the future of their company partially on BlueRay this could be pretty bad for them.


Whats reall stupid is we couldhave High Def moving right now with current DVD techif they would move away from Mpeg2 crap compression.

 

[pcostabel]

the BDR specs call for a JVM to be present in order to play the interactive content. MS hates Java.

 

[c0_re]

the BDR specs call for a JVM to be present in order to play the interactive content. MS hates Java.

wth does BR need Java on the host system? This is a bad idea right off the bat by Sony, everyone knows Sun and M$ hate each other. (Belive me I know i run Java transactionapps on M$ 2003 clusters)

 

[RobHT]

the BDR specs call for a JVM to be present in order to play the interactive content. MS hates Java.

That's what all this is about? MS dislikes Java?
So MS and Intel are going to back a clearly inferior format, slow if not completely stall the transition to High Def DVD, confuse the market, etc, etc, etc!?!?
Is Java really that big a threat to MS?

 

[Npl]

Does that mean I will have to install WinDVD X.X to play BRD? --- Wait I already have to do this to playback DVDs !
Apart from that, BRD will work just like any other Optical Drive without additional drivers.

 

[Gholbine]

"Well, that about wraps it up for blu-ray."

I don't get it, are you actually trying to say that Blu-Ray is dead because of this Microsoft and Intel support announcement? I certainly hope not...

 

[London Geezer]

That's what all this is about? MS dislikes Java?
So MS and Intel are going to back a clearly inferior format, slow if not completely stall the transition to High Def DVD, confuse the market, etc, etc, etc!?!?
Is Java really that big a threat to MS?

They've been trying to thwart Sun and Java for years, and got a whopping ass kicking from the relevant authorities for it and more illegal tricks they've been doing.

 

[Lysander]

MS had always back up hd-dvd. Why such a fuzz about all this? But I still do not why MS talked about the third alternative.
Hollywood (some of) backed up bluray, because of sony influence, I guess.