HD-DVD key cracked.

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

This surprises you ?

Probably old, but http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130

I find the last paragraph to be more than a little bit true.

 

[Robert Bannister]

Really? How do they propose getting their hands on thousands of HD-DVD
players to apply a firmawre patch?

The only people who will get buggered are the people who watch HD-DVDs
on Windows and their collection becomes worthless after the latest
'patch Tuesday'.

The buggered people will be those who bought HD-DVD players only to find
that either the other format (Blue-Ray?) or, more likely, some other
format wins out. Some people still remember Beta video tape players.

 

[Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie]

The buggered people will be those who bought HD-DVD players only to find
that either the other format (Blue-Ray?) or, more likely, some other
format wins out. Some people still remember Beta video tape players.

I remember "hearing about" betas, and I'd heard that it was the "better"
format, but got elbowed out of the market by Big Money.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[The Great Attractor]

Required? I've got a money-back guarantee. If it quits, I take it back
to the store and get my money back.

Wrong. The purchase is waranted against Mfgr defects. YOU not
updating the firmware is NOT Their defect, it is yours.

You can return for refund inside about seven days here... that's
it.

 

[The Great Attractor]

The buggered people will be those who bought HD-DVD players only to find
that either the other format (Blue-Ray?) or, more likely, some other
format wins out. Some people still remember Beta video tape players.

You're an idiot.

 

[John]

I remember "hearing about" betas, and I'd heard that it was the "better"
format, but got elbowed out of the market by Big Money.

Thanks,
Rich

Beta was still being used by the network portable cameras because they
demanded a better quality image until digital evolved.

JOhn

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

Wrong. The purchase is waranted against Mfgr defects. YOU not
updating the firmware is NOT Their defect, it is yours.

Try expaining that to some hillbilly who spent a weeks wages on that
thar conraption an' now it done got broke.

What in tarnation is 'firmwear'? Starched longjohns?

 

[Robert Baer]

Fair enough. Just save the the hex for later. You might even be able
to get simular hexes in a hex mag for portability.

AC

...or talk to a witch for a real hex...

 

[martin griffith]

Beta was still being used by the network portable cameras because they
demanded a better quality image until digital evolved.

JOhn

Not quite, the beta tape format / cartridge was the same for betamax
and betacam, but the linear tape speed was much faster, see wikipedia
on betacam


martin

 

[Eeyore]

Not quite, the beta tape format / cartridge was the same for betamax
and betacam,

Except that betacam got an additional extra large cartrdge for longer tape
lengths, a bit like U-matic.

but the linear tape speed was much faster, see wikipedia
on betacam

Yes.

Arguably the 'failure' of Sony's Beta format in the domestic market opened up a
far more lucrative market for Betacam in the professional field. The there was
Betacam SP and Digi Beta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Betacam

Graham

 

[blu]

[email protected] wrote in

**** ALL pirate whores.

More fantasies?
Pirate Chicks Rock
(and you know it)

See, Prongtoi, if you weren't such a jackass, you too could be receiving a
personally autographed "PCR" picture for your very own. Of course, you'd
have to answer the trivia questions correctly, but they were particularly
easy this week.. I'm sure even *you* could have gotten them right.

--
blu*goddess.of.groundhogs*juju
blu 3=3
master of irrelevance
Lits Slut#5
Gutter Chix0r #2
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
-Jim Morrison http://blu05.port5.com/
"This whole deal has gone nineteen." -Eddie

 

[blu]

Try expaining that to some hillbilly who spent a weeks wages on that
thar conraption an' now it done got broke.

What in tarnation is 'firmwear'? Starched longjohns?

Ouch!!
Itchy!!


--
blu*goddess.of.groundhogs*juju
blu 3=3
master of irrelevance
Lits Slut#5
Gutter Chix0r #2
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
-Jim Morrison http://blu05.port5.com/
"This whole deal has gone nineteen." -Eddie

 

[best wire]

Except that betacam got an additional extra large cartrdge for longer tape
lengths, a bit like U-matic.


Yes.

Arguably the 'failure' of Sony's Beta format in the domestic market opened up a
far more lucrative market for Betacam in the professional field. The there was
Betacam SP and Digi Beta.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Betacam

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Beta didn't make it because their tapes would not hold an entire movie
and home video renting was where the $$$ was.

 

[Poldie]

The buggered people will be those who bought HD-DVD players only to find
that either the other format (Blue-Ray?) or, more likely, some other
format wins out. Some people still remember Beta video tape players.

Other buggered people will be those tracked down by this lot:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6623331.stm

An AACS executive said it was looking at "legal and technical tools"
to confront those who published the key.
....
He said tracking down everyone who had published the keys was a
"resource intensive exercise". A search on Google shows almost 700,000
pages have published the key.

(good luck!)

 

[Robert Bannister]

I remember "hearing about" betas, and I'd heard that it was the "better"
format, but got elbowed out of the market by Big Money.

Or elbowed out of the money by big marketing. I see Sony's Playstation
has gone one way and Microsoft the other.

 

[Robert Bannister]

On Fri, 04 May 2007 07:57:01 +0800, Robert Bannister




You're an idiot.

What a carefully constructed argument.

 

[The Great Attractor]

What a carefully constructed argument.

I don't need one. You said "buggered"

I'll re-phrase...

You're a goddamned IDIOT!

There... is that better, little boy?

 

[Robert Bannister]

I don't need one. You said "buggered"

I'll re-phrase...

You're a goddamned IDIOT!

There... is that better, little boy?

How can a non-existent being damn me. You still have not explained why
you think buying HD-DVD is a good idea when there are so few movies for
it and there is a rival system which might well beat it.

 

[The Great Attractor]

How can a non-existent being damn me. You still have not explained why
you think buying HD-DVD is a good idea when there are so few movies for
it and there is a rival system which might well beat it.

You're an idiot!

There are already 512 releases, and that growth rate is FASTER than DVD
was as well as Laser Disc.

You OBVIOUSLY know NOTHING about emerging technologies.

Go back to sleep, you adolescent twit.

Meanwhile, God and I are going to watch another film that is 6 times
higher in resolution than the shit DVD version.

Seems you do not know a goddamned thing after all, you goddamned
fucking retard!

 

[MooseFET]

Beta didn't make it because their tapes would not hold an entire movie
and home video renting was where the $$$ was.

I don't think many movies were over 4 hours and that is how much would
go on a Beta at better quality than VHS.