Sony puts two fingers up at fair trade and fair use - again ...
So much for fair trade laws.
Once again the MPAA & Sony screw the consumer (through sony throwing literally millions of dollars in bribe money around). Its no real skin of my nose - I have a PS3 and an HD DVD player - not to mention Bluray and HD DVD drives in my PC (Btw - the cheapest way to play the disks - the drives are around 80 quid if you shop around).
The reason why I've been (and continue to be) so pro HD DVD is the lack of region coding. I have no problem with copy protection aside from fair use - thats a different arguement - however region coding is another matter. Why shouldn't i be able to pick up a disk if i'm in new york and play it at home? Region coding is in direct opposition to fair trade laws and as such should be denounced and denied.
As a matter of fact I can rip US Blurays into a format I can watch (I had to do this with a copy of Lost S3 that I was given, I own the disk so why shouldn't I ?) really easily - no lose of qulity or use of compression but its soomething I shouldn't have to do. I will continue to buy HD DVD's over blu ray for as long as they are being released (and theres a fair few lined up stateside for release over the next few month) .. By then I suspect someone will have produced a region hack for UK PS3's.
Once again the MPAA & Sony screw the consumer (through sony throwing literally millions of dollars in bribe money around). Its no real skin of my nose - I have a PS3 and an HD DVD player - not to mention Bluray and HD DVD drives in my PC (Btw - the cheapest way to play the disks - the drives are around 80 quid if you shop around).
The reason why I've been (and continue to be) so pro HD DVD is the lack of region coding. I have no problem with copy protection aside from fair use - thats a different arguement - however region coding is another matter. Why shouldn't i be able to pick up a disk if i'm in new york and play it at home? Region coding is in direct opposition to fair trade laws and as such should be denounced and denied.
As a matter of fact I can rip US Blurays into a format I can watch (I had to do this with a copy of Lost S3 that I was given, I own the disk so why shouldn't I ?) really easily - no lose of qulity or use of compression but its soomething I shouldn't have to do. I will continue to buy HD DVD's over blu ray for as long as they are being released (and theres a fair few lined up stateside for release over the next few month) .. By then I suspect someone will have produced a region hack for UK PS3's.