Comments on: BLU-RAY VICTORY! HD DVD now dead.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:00:09 +0000

It’s okay Allison, I had to look it up anyways…

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:04:50 +0000

Oh wow, I didnt get that that was Truman holding the paper. That would have helped… Im cool.

By: Timmy

Timmy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:16:51 +0000

Look at our president. So pleased with his purchase of a PS3.
If only I’d been able to portent such a future. Woe is me.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:27:04 +0000

OMG physical media is soooo dead, Joel.

COME ON!

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:26:41 +0000

I love the nerdy joke.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:06:02 +0000

If you don't get the joke the best explanation would be to go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:03:40 +0000

i dont get the nerdy joke.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:35:22 +0000

Apparently there are a number of not-4-noob tools to copy Blu-Ray disks onto your hard drive w/o the encryption. However converting the video stored on these disk images to something useful like h2g4/m4v is still a mystery to me.

By: Chance

Chance — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:22:19 +0000

that picture is a nerdy joke. I LOVE IT.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:58:51 +0000

Amen to “backing up.” I’m sure Sony will be pretty hardcore about making Blu-Ray hard to crack. Though, eventually doesn’t every DRM crack?

I was just surprised that the format-war was over so fast!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:20:25 +0000

I was rooting for HD-DVD, but in much the same way as I was rooting for the Patriots (i.e. i had no personal investment in it whatsoever.) Still, it’s been a tough winter for me. Few can stay cheerful after being let down by both Toshiba and Tom Brady.

I was hoping that this format war would go on until someone found a moderately easy way to break the encryption of one of the formats. This would probably kill off said format, making the devices and media cheap. Then I could back them up onto my computer, and use the disks as frisbees, and the drive as a retractable beverage holder.

This is still a possibility, however said “backing up” is notsomuch an easy proposition at this point.