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HD format
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After the HD DVD side's early thrust, pushed the bums & tits brigade's
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Porn is good for HD formats |
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• HD
format groups are wooing the porn industry to help their claims for
dominance.
After the HD DVD side thrust the bums & tits brigades support of their
format into our faces, BD now trumpet Vivid’s oral commitment to porn on
BD.
Although
the media industry try’s to pretend it isn’t there, porn has always been
the main driving force behind new technologies. Print, photography,
CD-ROM, the Internet, videocassette and DVD have all been pulled into
the mainstream consciousness, by the activities of ‘adult material’
merchants. It’s a massive market, that still gets ignored – when last
did you see adult material listed as a sub-category for the DVD charts
or even added to the annual sales of DVD in mainstream industry
statistics?
But all that is changing with Hi-Def. After a report showing the HD DVD
is strong in the adult market the BD world has responded with the
announcement that Vivid are releasing porn in Blu ray with the release
of the tw"Debbie Does Dallas … Again. Should they be called Blu-movies???
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U&S see
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In and interview with Home
Media Magazine, Jim Bottoms, the erstwhile co-founder of Understanding &
Solutions co-founder Jim Bottoms says that the early indicators of the
market since the launch of the PS3 show a stronger possibility for BD
becoming dominant in the HD disc ‘battle’.
It’s been our contention all along that both formats would almost be
neck and neck, with Blu-ray having stronger industry support on the
hardware side and content side and HD DVD getting out first and having
lower price points. Each group has got its advantages, but what really
changes the picture is PS3. It is
poised to be in virtually 25 million to 35 million homes in the next two
to three year.” He thinks this leads to a strength in BD for the future.
”I would be absolutely amazed if the format war goes on much further
than mid-2008. If you look at what happened in 2006, 80% of what has
sold through is Blu-ray. In 2007, [Blu-ray] will be at least that
percentage again, but it won’t be a million players we’re talking about.
We’re probably looking at something like 8 million units selling through
this year across all product types and formats, so by the end of 2007,
moving into 2008, it’s possible that 5% or 6% of U.S. homes will be
owning a high-definition playback device. And about 80% of those devices
will be Blu-ray. “
Whilst not gainsaying Jim Bottom’s research, others have pointed that if
you predict the outcome on Philip’s track record in consumer media
formats instead, that would indicate quite the opposite. Whilst the CD
and Video CD was a success, CD-I as a games format didn’t , V2000 failed
against VHS, DCC failed against MD, Multichannel MPEG audio for DVD
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Hacker
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Despite the reaction from
the industry that dismisses the impact of the cracking efforts of Backup
HD DVD. Muslix64 the hacker the hacker who broke the DRM behind HD-DVD
and Blu-Ray that says that the system is broken and some thoughtlessness
in its design has contributed to the downfall of AACS.
“I know many people of the industry try to cover up this breach, by
saying I have only poked a tiny hole in AACS, but it is more serious
than that. Only the future will tell, “ he says.
“The AACS security layer is almost the same for both HD-DVD and Blu-ray,
so they are both busted for good. The only extra security layer is for
the Blu-ray format, and it's called BD+. BD+ is not there yet, and I
don't know when it will be. May be my "exploits" will speed up the
adoption of BD+, we will see...”
Muslix64 exploited the volume key to crack the system he says
“I care about volume keys, because by using volume keys instead of
devices keys, I totally bypass the revocation system. There is no
"volume key revocation". There is content revocation, but I really doubt
they will ever use it. If you use device keys, they can revoke them.
Having the volume key means that you can decrypt title's keys (or CPS
Unit key in the case of Blu-ray) and then you can decrypt the media file
without problem. I was shocked to realize the volume key was not
protected in memory!”
A lesson that Mary Queen of Scots, learnt at the cost of her execution,
was that you should never put your trust in ‘unbreakable’ encryption.
And for the last half a millennium, experts have been making the same
mistake. The industry must accept that encryption is there to keep
honest people honest and little else.
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Mexico/
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In a double blow to
the US and European disc manufacturing capacity, Thomson had announced
that it is closing its Wales, UK and Luxembourg plant sand transferring
manufacturing to Piaseczno in Poland . It is also closing its Illinois
manufacturing and packing plant and cutting 50% of the 1200 workforce at
its Camarillo plant. The ‘restructuring’ moves production to the larger,
more highly efficient facilities that can also take advantage of lower
running and staff costs in these areas.
Local press in all three areas headline the decisions as they will make
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