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 < 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 +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | From: Jeroen H. Stessen | E-mail: Jeroen.Stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx | | Building: SFJ-5.22 Eindhoven | Deptmt.: Philips Applied Technologies | | Phone: ++31.40.2732739 | Visiting & mail address: Glaslaan 2 | | Mobile: ++31.6.44680021 | NL 5616 LW Eindhoven, the Netherlands | | Pager: ++31.6.65133818 | Website: http://www.apptech.philips.com/ = | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.