Re: Why Sony Will Die


"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Charles Tomaras (tomaras@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
Those WMV HD discs from the company that markets the Terminator disc have
pretty specific instructions included about how to play the discs. They
were/are a specialty item that allowed for HD playback on a computer long
before any other company had a marketable HD optical disc solution.

It's funny that Windows Media Player--which supports the DRM in the T2 HD
WMV file--could not be used to play this file.

Well actually once you use the Interactual player which grabs the DRM
liscense then you can play the individual files without menu structure in
WMP10 if my memory serves me.


Commercial Blue Ray and HD-DVD solutions will operate in a
different way and you won't be able to play them in any fricken player
you
choose...you will need a Blue Ray or HD-DVD player.

Yes, but *any* Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player will play their respective
Blu-Ray/HD-DVD discs. But, for the T2 HD video, only a *specific* WMV
DRM-enabled player could play the content...and the company that invented
the DRM didn't have a player on the "approved" list even though the
playback codec was created by the company that created the DRM. How
screwy is that?

It was/is a specialty disc that filled a little void in software for a very
short period of time. That format is dead on arrival of the newer
alternatives. A company issues a series of DVD's to fill a niche that also
provided for WMV HD playback on fairly powerful computers using a player
that was bundled on the disc. There was NOTHING else at the time which could
provide this content for as large a number of people as this did. If you
have a problem with this you should take it up with the people who produced
it http://www.interactual.com/ They are in no way affiliated with Microsoft
save for having used a codec and DRM which Microsoft developed. A DRM system
which is highly configurable for a wide variety of options which are left up
to the rights holder to determine...not Microsoft.





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