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Bill Gates Believes that Blu-Ray is "Bad" for Consumers

And he recommends HD-DVD pills

By Alexandru Macovschi, Editor In Chief

17th of October 2005, 22:29 GMT

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The Microsoft leader's intuition cannot be taken as an example, considering that the numerous rather weird predictions made Bill Gates were laughed at by both experts and users. After the already famous reference to the maximum memory of 768 kb, Gates strikes back with new material. According to Microsoft's architect, the Blu-Ray technology,
which won't work too well on the computer, is the movie studios' tool. He also said that this is a solution aimed against the consumer.

It was expected that Microsoft would attack sooner or later the Blu-Ray solution, after deciding to back the other format, the HD-DVD. Still, calling Blu-Ray "the no.1 enemy" is quite a challenge. Gates justifies his statement by saying that, together with the launching of Blu-Ray, the movie studios will have way too many protections at their disposal, which will be detrimental to users. Bill Gates doesn't have something against the Blu-Ray's technology, his discontent having to do with the protections which are not designed to aid consumers.

The Blu-Ray format includes three protections against piracy, while the HD-DVD is based on the DRM protection system, which authorizes local transfers.

Not to mention that the next gaming console from Sony, Play Station 3, is likely to be shipped with Blu-Ray drives, while Xbox 360 is still in talks with the HD-DVD format.


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Comment #1 by: zapata07 on 18 Oct 2005, 09:59 GMT reply to this comment

LOL. Bill is only worried about his bank account. He could care less about consumers.


Comment #2 by: ds1200 on 18 Oct 2005, 10:40 GMT reply to this comment

LOL. Said that right


Comment #3 by: holoman on 21 Oct 2005, 13:56 GMT reply to this comment

Holographic Nanostorage to Obsolete Blu-Ray


http://colossalstorage.net


Comment #4 by: jc63857 on 24 Nov 2005, 02:38 GMT reply to this comment

I really dont know what the best systen is . but I hope they settle on One quickley

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