Just before CES Warner announced exclusive support for Blue-Ray. Here is a link that will show the reaction of the HD camp. (Very funny, and a bit of 'adult language', but worth it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=friS4OOcdgQ
On a serious note- The DVD Wars were all about DRM, the movie studios do not want to go the way of the recording studios. The reason I go to CES is you get to meet some real experts in topics like DRM, guys like Robert Weber ManagingRights.com. He knows the world is filled with grey areas and 'it depends' but I got the drift that he felt Sony had cleaned up their DRM act.
Sony, after many false starts with a 'root kit' and other unpopular mechanisms, went to a virtual machine model for DRM. The secure path from Disk to Player to Computer to Display is controlled not by the computer, but by a VM, running on the computer. The opinion is that as hackers advance, Sony and the studios can just update the VM.
I suppose the last and cruelest defection from the HD-DVD camp was Microsoft. Microsoft bypassed the whole battle with a Warner deal for Video on Demand direct to xBox 360. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-06TVMovieDeliveryPR.mspx As if that were not enough, it seems future xBox systems may ship with Blue Ray disks
From Reuters:
LAS VEGAS — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video gaming unit still fully backs Toshiba Corp.'s HD-DVD high-definition DVD format but could consider supporting Sony Corp's rival Blu-ray technology should consumers want it, an executive said Tuesday (Jan. 8). "It should be consumer choice; and if that's the way they vote, that's something we'll have to consider," Albert Fennell, group marketing manager for Xbox hardware said when asked whether Microsoft would support a Blu-ray DVD accessory in the event that HD-DVD failed.
DRM and its close cousin IRM (intellectual rights management) will be an important part of future embedded system designs that hold copyright media (Movies, music) or confidential information (HIPPA records, personal Id's)
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