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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedThem's fighting words: A full-fledged format war for the next-generation home entertainment system is brewing. (Headliners).
Video Business, March, 2003 by Sweeting, Paul
The announcement last month by the nine members of the Blu-ray Disc Founders group that they have begun licensing their technology to hardware makers, along with a new copy-protection system, caught many in the industry by surprise. (OK, it caught me by surprise.) For one thing, the new copy-protection standard, which is supposed to guard against high-definition digital recordings being uploaded to the Internet, isn't even completed.
Two significant and highly contentious issues remain to be worked our between the Blu-ray group and program suppliers: the precise restrictions on copying that the new devices will be required to implement and what to do about the so-called analog hole. The current license for the copy-protection system merely states...
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