[opendtv] HP Pressures Blu-Ray on New DVD
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: undisclosed-recipient: ;
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:40:34 -0400
HP Pressures Blu-Ray on New DVD
- Oct 19, 2005 08:51 PM (AP Online)
By GARY GENTILE AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co., a major backer of the
Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, is urging that it be more
consumer-friendly in a bid to forestall a lengthy and costly war with
a competing standard.
The appeal came on the same day Forrester Research predicted that
Blu-ray would eventually win the war, but that consumers, hungry for
digital content, would look elsewhere for video and take longer to
embrace high-definition DVDs.
Hewlett-Packard Co., the nation's second largest PC maker, Wednesday
asked the Blu-ray Disc Association to make it easier for consumers to
transfer movies from a DVD to a home network, an option seen as
essential to consumer adoption of any high definition DVD format.
Blu-ray's rival format HD DVD, which is backed by Microsoft Corp.,
Intel Corp. and Toshiba Corp., among others, features a standard
known as "mandatory Managed Copy," which will allow a consumer to
make a legal copy of their DVD and store the digital file on a home
network. The movie can then be moved from a computer screen to a
television and other authorized viewing devices on the network.
Blu-ray has much stricter content protection rules that allows
studios to lock their movies to the disc, preventing any copying.
...
- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=52472669
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at
FreeLists.org
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word
unsubscribe in the subject line.
Other related posts:
- » [opendtv] HP Pressures Blu-Ray on New DVD