So, I asked you twice to show me examples of that dastardly nefarious mega DRM schema in action (which is not a tool, it is just a piece of software used to carry a [DRM] function...) and I am being called a coward, a person who cannot read, etc... so let me ask again. What has this DRM piece of the puzzle actually done in practice, what are the actual evidence of this in action you can present that in about 12 or so years should have had plenty of time to do its damage?
I am focusing on the DRM but because yes it is a fact that movie publishers worldwide wanted to move beyond DVD to get better DRM, but you are twisting it into a lack of ownership issue and kind of like mandatory online DRM one and I do not see your facts supporting it. Just you snapping at people and becoming aggressive/insulting people who have yet to insult you.
How have you refused the claim that Blu-Ray is not massively slower than HD-DVD (which was the point you were making): evidence on the Blu-Ray side is the 2x drives on both sides peaking between 56-72 Mbps?
As game installs were not mandatory for PS3 (just a byproduct of having an HDD in every console and even games with installs kept reading from both Blu-Ray and HDD after that) and as soon as it was reasonable to do so MS started to do the same for the DVD based Xbox 360... what was the nefarious advent of Blu-Ray bringing doom and darkness to?
How can you say that it is Blu-Ray the issue for installs now being the norm when everyone knew the limits of transfe speed for any optical disc was not rising at an exponential pace every year and developers were creating bigger and bigger assets independently of that?
Just nothing more than dribble. An above poster already debunked your false claim on installs. Did you ignore their posts?
You also wouldn't be asking the DRM question if you actually read, or comprehended what you were reading. This is a consumer rights issue you're downplaying in
Before you used to, to an extent, "own" your games. However the software in BR allows DRM to he added to the disc.
This means by default you don't even have licensed ownership authorization in the game, unlike DVD which the so called "agreement" is already on the disc. While on BR it's NOT on a disc until it's played on a machine.
In simple terms with a DVD I can "say" I own, or for later releases " own the use of license" of the content on the DVD. You can't say that on Blu Ray, it's only "yours" during machine play. That's why you can play an older br movie on an old player, put it in a new recent player, and it won't work on the old player because DRM is updated, and if the old player isn't compatible with the new drm it won't play the Blu Ray.
Look on the net, all those "compatibility" complaints for BR movies aren't the hardware it's the DRM.
This makes it so you only "own" your movie or game while it's used in a specific situation which is horrible anti-consumer rights garbage.
If you don't see how that's a big deal and a huge issue the futures looking Dim for consumers.
HD DVD can't have that done to it because you can't update or add DRM to an HD DVD through hardware. So HD DVD was the more consumer friendly model from the start.
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