[d@DCC] All eyes on new DVDs' format war

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: General Copyright Discussions <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:38:11 -0400 (EDT)

http://news.com.com/All+eyes+on+new+DVDs+format+war/2100-1026_3-5783387.html

"A new format could breathe new life into those sales. But as long as the 
two formats, called HD DVD and Blu-Ray, remain at odds, few believe that 
consumers will rush to open their wallets."


   I am wondering if any of the techies in this forum have analyzed the 
software side of these technologies, and if there is a replacement for the 
DVD CCA's access control protection measure?  Are these only physical 
media upgrades, or are there also changes in the data stored on the 
physical media?


Note: There are some firmware issues in the existing DVD format where 
commercially distributed DVD readers do the region restriction part of DVD 
CSS within the drives themselves.

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