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Has Blu-ray's copy protection been cracked?
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| Interesting developments on the Blu-ray front: it seems that it may have been
| hacked. That at least is the interpretation that seems (if you look at it
| sideways and narrow your eyes a bit) to emerge from the discussion on the
| Doom9 forum, though if you find the 11-page going too heavy there ("I have
| had a look at the difference of the output of dumphd and anydvd for a bd+
| movie.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/nov/03/blu-ray-hacking
Recent:
Debian Project News - October 20th, 2008
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| Steve McIntyre posted some bits from the Debian CD team. With the upcoming
| release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny, Blu-ray Disc images will be available
| as well as CD and DVD images. For the first time in several years, users
| should be able to fit all of the packages for one architecture on a single
| disc. But due to the increased size of the Debian archive and considerations
| of storage and network bandwidth (especially on our mirrors) only a limited
| number of versions of each image will be available for direct download on our
| mirrors.
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http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/13/index.en.html
HD DVD dead, what now for the PS3?
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| Now that the HD DVD high definition disc format is dead . What effect will
| that have on the Sony Blu-ray equipped games machine? According to analysts,
| an immediate 10 % sales boost.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16754/1093/
Related:
Director: Microsoft fueling HD wars
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| Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that
| its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail, says movie director
| Michael Bay in a response to a question posed through his official forums.
| The producer contends that Microsoft is writing "$100 million dollar checks"
| to movie studios to ensure HD DVD exclusives that hurt the overall market
| regardless of the format's actual merit or its popularity, preventing any one
| format from gaining a clear upper hand. Bay's own Transformers is available
| on disc only in the less popular HD DVD format despite his stated preference
| for Blu-ray. To the director, this is primarily a stalling tactic while
| Microsoft refines its own online-only technology.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/04/bay.on.microsoft.hd/
Two Studios to Support HD DVD Over Rival
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| But money talks: Paramount and DreamWorks Animation together will receive
| about $150 million in financial incentives for their commitment to HD
| DVD, according to two Viacom executives with knowledge of the deal but
| who asked not to be identified.
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| The incentives will come in a combination of cash and promotional
| guarantees. Toshiba, for instance, will use the release of “Shrek the
| Third” as part of an HD DVD marketing campaign.
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| Paramount and DreamWorks Animation declined to comment. Microsoft, the
| most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not
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| rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. “We provided no financial
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| incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever,” said Amir Majidimehr,
| the head of Microsoft’s consumer media technology group.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/technology/21disney.html?ei=5088&en=d4e1f285e2f41437&ex=1345348800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1187698143-B5wO3L/F+4r1NyAsum87vQ
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