How far can DuDers Spin their Demise?

[TheEnd187]

Oh well.
Well, the studios got the format they wanted, at the expense of regular folks. Here's what HDDVD has that Bluray does not:
* Mandatory TrueHD support for lossless compressed audio
* Mandatory AVC/VC-1 MPEG4 compression (many early Bluray discs had artifacty and slovenly MPEG-2 encodes)
* Mandatory Managed Copy (to store HDDVDs on a media PC hard disk) on every disc
* No region coding (this is probably what pissed the studios off MOST, and offered the most value especially to European consumers)
* Mandatory networking and local storage hardware (but NOT mandatory network hookup, you can play all HDDVDs fully disconnected if you choose)

The overall-superior tech lost again. But wtf do I know, I was a big fan of Atari Lynx and Jaguar...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-declared-dead

I just felt like punching this guy in the face.