[opendtv] Interview Bill Gates
- From: Jeroen Stessen <jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:08:09 +0200
Hello,=20
See: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/10/14/news/13474.shtml
He also says something about Blu-ray versus HD-DVD. The very last=20
part of the next quotation is most interesting (if you believe it):=20
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Why is Microsoft not backing Blu-ray today ? a technology that many=20
consider to be superior?
Gates: Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under=20
Blu-ray is very anti-consumer=20
and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the=20
[movie] studios got too much=20
protection at the expense consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You=20
won't be able to play=20
movies and do software in a flexible way.
It's not the physical format that we have the issue with, it's that the=20
protection scheme on Blu is
very anti-consumer. If [the Blu-ray group] would fix that one thing, you=20
know, that'd be fine.
For us it's not the physical format. Understand that this is the last=20
physical format there will ever be.=20
Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk. So, in this=20
way, it's even unclear how=20
much this one counts.=20
>
I am not one to believe that Microsoft has really improved the world,=20
so let's just wait what happens. I think that you need to offer the=20
consumer something that he can touch, and put in a rack, before he=20
will pay for the content. People want to collect tangible things.=20
Put it on a hard disk, make one mistake, and it's all gone forever.=20
Greetings,=20
-- Jeroen
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