Microsoft - Enflaming the HD War for their Proprietary Gain

[marzetta7]

I know I'm kinda preachin to the choir here, but nonetheless, here is an interesting article that I've posted elsewhere as well. Thought I'd share it.

Microsoft - Enflaming the HD War for their Proprietary Gain

How Microsoft enflamed the HD war in an effort to tie movies to proprietary technologies and maintain its Windows monopoly.

http://roughlydrafted.com/RD/TechQ30...D-DVD_War.html

^^^Very interesting read of documented Microsoft behavior and their purposes of a two-pronged goal in regards to HD...

1) Stagnate the high-def market by supporting HD DVD and if HD DVD does catch on, then well, they got VC-1 and iHD to give them royalties.

2) If the stagnation of the high-def market is successful, then own the download arena using again their proprietary codecs.

My question to you all is, do you all really want Microsoft's bloatware in your living room, giving you headeaches and requiring patches on a weekly basis? Moreover, why are people bent on helping Microsoft exacerbate the use of their proprietary codecs over open formats such as H.264 and MPEG2?

Their goal is clear, own the living room and make their monopoly stronger with their unstable and often time frustrating user experience. Why, in your living room, do you want that?

This article indeed gives a good example of how Microsoft itself is enflaming this HD war by taking on the rest of the industry, and influencing other companies, namely Toshiba and most recently Paramount, to stagnate the high-def market. I think as consumers, we ought not make that happen.

Choose Blu.